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...

Phillip O’Leary, in his 2017 An Underground Theatre: Major Playwrights the Irish Language `1930-80, makes a stark summation of current state language theatre, genre that he warns may ‘sink into oblivion’ (ibid.: 303). While undertaking comprehensive reading plays Mairéad Ní Ghráda, Eoghan Ó Tuairisic, and Críostóir Floinn, O’Leary only touches upon one Connemara’s most important influential con...

Abstract Wole Soyinka and Samuel Beckett apparently occupy distinct places in the literary space, all ramifications. Specifically, while former’s dramaturgy is definable within context of traditional convention playwriting, otherwise known as well-made plays, latter inherently non-conformist this regard. Hence, effort paper was to locate a nexus their writings, using two Death King’s Horseman E...

In Love’s Labour’s Lost, the creation of an academe where study is posited as antidote to diseases mind caused by worldly desire results in epidemic lovesickness. Lovesickness, otherwise known ‘erotic melancholy’ or ‘erotomania’, was treated contemporary medical documents a real, diagnosable illness, contagious disease thought infect imagination through eyes, which could be fatal if left untrea...

As a theatrical phenomenon, verbatim originated in Great Britain the late 1980s and early 1990s. Authors using this method paid special attention to serious social problems, for example, discrimination against women, racial inequality, terrorism, others. At same time, basis of direction became documentary focus on life individual. In post-Soviet space, theater turned issues that were relevant f...

There are several dramatic characters who enormously appeal to us since they are attractive. Part of this attraction might be owing to their strong stage presence. More interesting, however, are characters who do not appear on stage but their “absent presence” is so strong that influences the characters who do appear physically on stage. There are numerous examples of...

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...

Performing art has been known in Egypt since the dawn of history, or better, time pharaohs. It is a reality that no one can deny. But some realities create discord between historians, such as we discuss this article which expressed following question: Did ancient know theater? In order to be able give an exact answer question and make indisputable, it was, therefore, necessary leaf through hist...