April De Angelis has been one of the most significant female playwrights in contemporary British Theatre since last years 20th century. Continuing writing plays 21st century, deals with topics adolescent problems and parental worries her comedy play Jumpy which was performed 2011. The title derives from a monkey toy symbolises childhood. focuses on middle class family dealing disobedience teena...

Tom Jones is a typical eighteenth-century hero: he is beaten, bullied, seduced, betrayed, and banished by numerous other characters in the narrative. He performs very little action himself, and that rather unsuccessfully. In one escapade in Book XIII, the hero overwhelmed by London society and ignored by his hosts, Fielding writes that “Poor Jones was rather a Spectator of this elegant scene, t...

this study investigates the process of dehumanization caused by a bizarre relationship between man and the machine. in the area of italian literature there are very few novels that take into consideration the heady world of industrialization. luigi pirandello (1867-1936) one of the most famous european playwrights, novelist and short story writer places accurate emphasis on this problem. he cho...

Being a country that constantly provides well-established writers to the world literature and draws attention as kind of education in eyes great writers, Ireland embodies magnificent literary tradition accumulation from past present. Marina Carr, one female playwrights contemporary Irish theater twentieth century contrbuiton which literature, stands out among most important writers. The main ac...

Greek tragedy developed from rituals associated with the god Dionysus and remained religiously oriented throughout history. The tragedies were therefore, dramatic recreations of myths about conflict between generations as represented by gods heroes. characters wore their mythical legendary origins- except when Euripides stripped them glory they retained stature historical figures heroic age. Th...

Despite the many historical references to wealth, military strength and political efficiency, Turks were generally represented as violent, lustful despotic figures in early modern cultural discourses. The stereotyped Turk soon populated London stages, thus moulding a recognisable dramatic type whose brutality sexual appetite also combined with corruption. However, this contribution seeks demons...

The author analyses Karol Hubert Rostworowski’s Miłosierdzie and Straszne Dzieci through the prism of genre studies distinguishes several formal solutions connected with genres such as mystery play, commedia dell'arte, morality nativity scene, circus or tableau vivant. analysis demonstrates that not only had Rostworowski used mentioned genres, but also transformed them to determine very percept...

It is historically known that many dramatists were sort of adaptors. Playwrights have often used myths, poems, historical events or even earlier stories as their source material but with literary verbatim theatre (the most text-based all subcategories), the audience deals facts found in original words a real figure who wrote privately and not for publication. Consequently, some accused growing ...

-the term “ta’ziyeh” refers to an iranian dramatic genre which might be compared to the western passion play and is the only indigenous drama of the entire islamic world. this ritual drama has both an islamic and a persian heritage, the central theme of which is the tragic and heroic martyrdom of imam husayn, the grandson of the prophet mohammed and the third imam of shi’ite in the desert of ka...