This article, which focuses on selected plays by contemporary Congolese playwrights, has two objectives: the first of is to illustrate how theatre production in DRC times been devoted highlighting various social and political conflicts within society. The paper’s second objective examine aesthetic technical aspects under study, such as use allegory, metaphors, verbal invention, proverbs, enunci...

This paper aims to investigate some important elements of the thought George Bernard Shaw, more commonly known as one most famous playwrights twentieth century. Shaw’s philosophy dwells on relationship between man and nature especially concept freedom. Among all his works, it was decided here analyse Saint Joan. In re-imagining historical Joan a heroine in play ideas, Shaw made use facts about ...

In their biographical play Sleep Deprivation Chamber (1996), Adrienne Kennedy and her son Adam P. retrace family memories to describe the aftermath of police brutality in 1990s America. They narrate brutal beating a middle-class, young Black man named Teddy events taking place later at trial. The playwrights make use “memory violence” (Olick 2018) elicit spectators’ emotional response construct...

The article is devoted to comprehension of the translational reception William Shakespeare’s work in legacy Vadim Shershenevich (1893—1942) context his author's translation strategies. novelty study connected with identification Shershenevich’s strategies as an adherent “accurate translation”, reconstruction history poet’s achievements field Shakespeariana. authors comprehend report on principl...

Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats (1998), an appropriation of the myth of Medea, re-presents the predicament of Hester Swane, who like Medea, is an outsider, a dispossessed woman living on the margins of society, who, at the age of seven, was abandoned by her mother, and now is struggling to establish her identity by looking for connection with the lost m/other. Carr shifts the focus from stereo...

The weakness of much of our research is that we have failed to take seriously the initial step in research design, that is, formulating the problem. Artists, musicians, novelists, playwrights, inventors, developers all know (and teach as best they can) that variation in the quality of creative products is affected by the way in which the creator formulates the problem. But in education, and muc...

OBJECTIVE To find out if Shakespeare, famed for his insights into human nature, is exceptional in how much his characters express grief through somatic symptoms and signs, and by physical illness. METHODS The texts of all large-scale works currently attributed to Shakespeare (39 plays, 3 long narrative poems) were systematically searched for bodily changes and for evidence of grief as dominat...

In her article "Rethinking Theatrical Images of the New Woman in China's Republican Era" Li Guo analyses the multivalent representations of the New Woman and posits that they encompass a broad array of blended feminine identities following the introduction of Western literary and cultural trends into Chinese culture. The tensions between ideological discourses about nation, gender, and politics...

Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love can be described as a prominent play written in chaotic time since it narrates the story of violence and power reflecting dark background society. She makes readers aware social corruption through in-yer-face theatre. It addresses most primitive instinct humanity (violence), to constitute an atmosphere which audience faces grim realities life. Kane distinguishes hers...