Realism in Modern Drama

A
Summer Project
On
“REALISM IN MODERN DRAMA”

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in English

Submitted by:
BISMA IRFAN
BA (Honors) English ll
A0706110036
ENROLL. NO.

Submitted to:
DR DEEPANKAR SUKUL
Asst. Professor

AMITY INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH AND BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
AMITY UNIVERSITY UTTAR PRADESH

CERTIFICATE

It is certified that the summer project work titled “ REALISM IN MODERN DRAMA” is the work of Ms.Bisma Irfan, B. A. (Hons,) English, and has been completed under my supervision.

Dr.Deepankar sukul
Lecturer
AIESR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank Director, AIESR, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh and my summer project Supervisor, Dr.Deepankar Sukul, Lecturer, AIESR for guiding me throughout the compilation of this term paper.
Date: 19TH JULY 2011 BISMA IRFAN Student, AIESR

Table of contents

1-INTRODUCTION
2-BEGINNING OF REALISM 11-16
3-EMERGENCE OF REALISM IN MODERN DRAMA 17-25
4-WRITERS OF REALISM 26-30
5-REALISM IN AMERICAN AND CHINESE DRAMA 31-39
6-REAILSM IN ART AND LITERATURE 39-55
7-CONCLUSION 56-60
8-REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Introduction

Realism is a literary term which is so widely used as to be more or less meaningless except when used in contradistinction to some other movement, such as Naturalism, Expressionism, Surrealism.

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