This course aims to develop a taste for drama as a form, through exposure to a variety of influential works of world literature. Beyond this dimension of appreciation, the course strengthens your historical and aesthetic knowledge of the form by asking you to examine the evolution of drama and its conventions, and to think about the complex relationship between the written word and its performance. Ultimately, it allows you to reflect on and analyse the ways in which plays interact with the social world in which they are written, and arrive at an understanding of today’s artistic practices.