ENGL 302 Topics in British Literature since 1800: British Drama from Wilde to Stoppard. Instr. R Elliott. 11:00 MW. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Great Britain, though its empire was at its zenith, was a theatrical backwater. The innovative plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, and other Continental playwrights had only begun to have an impact, and the popular stage was awash in stilted melo...
