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...

The present paper studies Kitchen Sink Drama and Naturalism to investigate how a cultural movement through which artists like Arnold Wesker, John Osborne, and Shelagh Delaney express their disillusionment during the post-war period representing the reality of their lives via theatre. The period of 1956–1965 can be considered as a period of time identifying post-war British theatre which is rela...

among british playwrights , george bernard shaw is a dramatist who envisages the hermeneutics o f history with a m ore challenging perspective w hich approximates him to a modern o utlook. i n this regard, he manages to attune his philosophy of history ( best exposed in a 1923 p lay by t he name of s aint joan ) with the idea of f . w . hegel, t he nineteenth - c entury german th inker , and hi...

British political drama in the 1990s was observed to be concerned more with global issues than state of nation. The repercussions fall Berlin Wall, disintegration Soviet states, rise United States as ultimate world power well prevalence rightist politics at home were widely handled plays this period. In decade, boundaries between Right and Left appeared indistinct; therefore, drama, which origi...

ENGL 302 Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Instr. R. Elliott. 10:00 MWF. After an opening glance at the Anglo-Irish comic tradition, this course will focus on plays written during and since the Irish Renaissance that flowered about 1900. We will discuss works by the major Abbey Theatre playwrights – W. B. Yeats, John Millington Synge, Lady Augusta Gregory, and Sean O’Casey – and link their writing...

How do we trace the historical processes that grant some writers visibility and, hence, legacy, while shoving others into closet? This essay offers case study of Elizabeth Boyd (1727-1745), a novelist, poet, and playwright who has received attention from scholars interested in women’s contributions to legacy William Shakespeare second quarter eighteenth century. In particular, her unperformed p...

What is most striking about Edward Bond’s plays his unconventional representation of visible forms violence and insanity. His deeply probe political, economic, societal norms values in provocative thought-provoking ways for which he has often been compared to such contemporary British playwrights as Pinter, Brenton, Osborne, Arden who profusely use cruelty their works. This article draws on Jul...

Throughout history, an authority with certain rules has governed all societies, and each had different impacts on society. Since theatre is a reflection of society culture, it carries the traces development changes political ideological concepts over time. With emergence playwrights such as Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Martin Crimp in British after 1970, new era begun theatre. The purpose this...

No doubt Aristotle considered Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris among his favorite plays. He was impressed by its complex recognition scene to such a degree that he offered it several times in the Poetics as an example of how playwrights should compose such scenes. Nonetheless, he must have also admired Polyidus' variant of the recognition between Iphigenia and Orestes, since he mentions it as a v...