Major · 01/ENG/MJR/352T · 2026–27 intake

20th Century Drama In English

Semester VI · 6 credits · 5 units

Examination scheme & source discrepancies

The source lists 3 hours, 120 end-semester marks and 30 sessional marks.

Some marking instructions are internally inconsistent. Confirm the current pattern with your department; the practice questions here do not claim to reproduce it.

Paper Setting & Marking Scheme: Time: 03 Hours MM= 120 Part- A (10x2=20 Marks) Ten short answer questions, two from each unit. Answer to each question shall be limited up to 50 words. Part- B: (5x20=100 Marks) Unit 1: Short note on any two out of four concepts prescribed in unit 1 of 06 marks each in not more than 250 words each. The Candidates shall attempt one out of two questions from units 2, 3, 4 and 5 in not more than 500 words each.

Part B is headed 100 marks, but its listed Unit I short notes give 2x6=12 and four remaining essays give 80, totalling 92.

Unit ITheatre of the Absurd / Theatre of Cruelty and more

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Modern Drama Characteristics: Theatre of Absurd, Theatre of Cruelty, Theatre of Protest, Epic Theatre, Realism, Drama of Ideas, Comedy of Menace, Impressionism, Expressionism.

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Source syllabus · page 107

Unit IILong Day’s Journey into Night

1 entry

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Eugene O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey into Night

Source syllabus · page 107

Unit IIIBirthday Party

1 entry

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Harold Pinter: Birthday Party

Source syllabus · page 107

Unit IVLook Back in Anger

1 entry

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John Osborne: Look Back in Anger

Source syllabus · page 107

Unit VEvam Inderjeet

1 entry

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Badal Sirkar: Evam Inderjeet

Source syllabus · page 107

Recommended readings in the source

  • Gassner, John. Masters of the Drama. 1940; rpt. New York: Dover, 1954.
  • Brown Russel (ed.) Modern British Dramatists: A Collection of Critical Essays. Indian rpt; New Delhi: Prentice Hall, 1980.
  • Williams, Raymond. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht. 1952; rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.