AMST 3360

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AMST 3360
American Drama and Theatre

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Explores major American playwrights from 1900 to 1960, introducing students to American theatre as a significant part of modern American cultural history. We will consider the ways in which theatre has contributed to the construction and deconstruction of a national identity. Similarly, we will examine the influence of the American Theatre on and in film. We will pay special attention to the social, political, and aesthetic contexts of the time period and discuss the shifting popularity of dramatic forms, including melodrama, realism, expressionism, absurdism, and the folk play, in the American theatre canon. Authors include O'Neill, Glaspell, Odets, Rice, Hellman, Hughes, Miller, Williams, and Albee, among others.


Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2024FA, 2022FA, 2021FA

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, HST-AS)

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3360, PMA 3757

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8062 AMST 3360   LEC 001

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    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Warner, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person