Prerequisite: 470:232

In German. Counts for literature/civilization/film credits toward the major and minor.

Modern German culture, perhaps more than any other, has been created and disputed on the theater stage. This course will examine the political, social, and aesthetic experimentation in German drama from the 18th century to the present. We will read (and in some cases view excerpts of productions) of masterpieces by such playwrights as Lessing, Goethe, Büchner, Kaiser, Brecht,
Hochhuth and Handke.