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 This paper investigates Sam Shepard’s States of Shock in which the playwright explores family relation during an international crisis, war. As male identity is noted as a recurring theme plays, examines masculine Shock. depicted play, Colonel and Stubbs, main characters struggle to negotiate their personal prisms. such, we explore this issue via lens social address primary const...

Abstract Aelian offers a curious example of how comedy was tied to religion during the Second Sophistic. He describes votive relief dedicated by Old Comic poet Theopompus Asclepius, which he interprets as symbol genre (Theopomp. Com. test. 2 PCG = Ael. fr. 102 Domingo-Forasté). My article situates this passage within style and purpose Aelian’s miscellanies, in order explore transforms it into l...

British theatre is renowned for tackling topical, red-hot events pertaining to immediate history: the war in Iraq, instance, prompted swift and diverse responses from playwrights. The representation of recent history will be analysed this paper through torture, more specifically Abu Ghraib scandal, Simon Stephens’s Motortown (2006). Written during 7/7 bombings London, play permeated with sense ...

This article is a little tribute that drama teacher, an editor and translator lecturer in English Literature would like to contribute this Special Issue Honour of Professor Dr Jan Kott, the most influential non-English speaking Shakespearean Critic second half 20th Century early 21st Century. In initial part essay we will overview Kott’s influence development current tradition(s) Spain from 197...

This work presents, through its study and annotated edition, the documents relating to José de Cañizares kept in Archives of Parish San Martín Madrid General Archive Royal Palace. These present reasons that led poet playwright from abandon his military career 1694 and, by providing information on beginnings as a writer sacred poetry for Crown, shed light key moment life, thus allowing significa...

Lorraine Hansberry, the first Black playwright and youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award, her A Raisin in sun, opens on Broadway with great success. This paper mainly adopts Alienation Theory of Fromm explore consciousness reconstructing an inclusive Community based disclosing that dreams black people are distorted into sublime objects constructed by dominant ideolo...

For Edmond Rostand, dramatic writing is a medium ensuring communion between the author and spectator, bond questioned by Plato. This article studies how Rostand’s poetic plays illustrate quest for public’s understanding of poet characters thrive their lost social recognition. His works shed light on at work, each being an accomplished or budding versifier to reveal that poetry legitimate which ...

Human personality is The complexity of human confirmed in its psychological, pedagogical and lexicographical definitions. This clearly seen Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska’s personality. aim this publication to describe the traits Maria Pawlikowska‑Jasnorzewska, a playwright, painter, descendant Kossak family one Poland’s greatest poets. metaphorical terms used refer Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska include: ...

bahram beizayi can be regarded as one of the few contemporary iranian writers with a specific style since 1960s. he is a person mostly recalled to be a director and playwright. however, a remarkable part of his activities which has not received the attention is his method of screen writing. it can be claimed that his screen plays have not yet been studied as well as his plays. the current resea...

Contemporary British theatre is a crucial avenue for staging trauma as provides both the potential of emotional identification and critical perspective. By making use unique possibilities embodied performance, allows safe space in which traumatic suffering can be reconfigured. Drawing on notion Roger Luckhurst’s ‘traumaculture,’ this paper interrogates extent to contemporary playwright Laura Wa...