B.A. Drama and English and American Literature

• The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Possible modules may include:

• Modern Theatre: A Theoretical Landscape
• The Empty Space
• Romanticism
• Early Drama
• Readings in the Twentieth Century
• Writing America

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Possible modules may include:

• The Contemporary
• Novelty, Enlightenment and Emancipation: 18th Century Literature
• Reading Victorian Literature
• Declaring Independence: 19th Century US Literature
• Modernism
• Early Modern Literature 1500-1700
• Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
• Empire, New Nations and Migration
• Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature
• Shakespeare's Theatre
• Physical Theatre 1
• Introduction to Musical Theatre Dance
• Theatre and Adaptation
• Acting

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Possible modules may include:

• Clouds, Waves & Crows: Writing the Natural, 1800 to the Present
• From Book to Blog: Geoffrey Chaucer and his Afterlives
• Discovery Space: New Theatres in Early Modern England
• Marriage, Desire and Divorce in Early Modern Literature
• Places and Journeys
• Heroes and Exiles: An Introduction to Old English Poetry
• American Crime Fiction
• Contemporary Irish Writing
• Writing Lives in Early Modern England: Diaries, Letters and Secret Selv
• Cross-Cultural Coming-of-Age Narratives
• The Global Eighteenth Century
• The 'Real' America: Class and Culture in the American Gilded Age
• Charles Dickens and Victorian England