English with Drama, BA (Hons)

Study English with Drama at UCD if you are an enthusiastic reader, talker and writer, and love literature and drama. Strengthen your understanding of narrative, dramatic and poetic forms. Enlarge your critical vocabulary and historical awareness.If you are interested in the theatre arts, as well as questions of origin, transmission and interpretation of dramatic texts, then this subject combination is for you. It allows you to consider drama in all of its aspects, from writing, direction and production right through to performance and its interpretation. Explore how the study of literature and drama intersects with questions of gender, politics and cultural theory. Learn how to research a topic, evaluate evidence and present your ideas in a cogent, elegant fashion. Become a creative and dynamic critic yourself!

Literature in Context 1 & 2,Contemporary Irish Writing, Literary Genre, Second & Third Year, Medieval Literature, Critical Theory, Renaissance Literature, Romantic Literature, Irish Literature, American Literature, Victorian Literature, Reading Ulysses, Shakespeare from Stage to Screen, Fin de Siècle, Gothic & Gothick, Medieval Celluloid, Modern American Poetry, The Modernist Novel, Sex, Politics & the Irish Stage