Detailed Course Outline:

1.                   Introduction: Origin and Evolution of Drama                                         5 hrs

2.         Characteristics of drama                                                                                 4 hrs

3.         Casting                                                                                                                4 hr

4,         Staging a play                                                                                                    4 hr

5.         Structure of a play                                                                                             2 hrs

6.         Language of drama:                                       

·                     Monologue                              }                                                               2 hrs

·                     Dialogue                                  }

·                     Quiproquos                             }

·                     Stage directions                      }

·                     Apartes                                    }

7        Classification of plays :

·                     Comedy                                  }

·                     tragedy                                     }         

·                     Tragi-comedy                          }                                                          2 hrs

·                     Melodrama                              }

8.         Techniques of writing plays                                                                            2 hrs

9.         Intensive study of one play                                                                          20 hrs

·                     Analysis                                                                                             

·                     memorization                                                                                     

·                     Rehearsal and staging of either Trois pretendants et un mari by

 Guillaume, Oyono Mbia or En attendant Godot by Samuel Beckett.}

Techniques of writing plays