The article considers the contribution of famous Canadian playwright Ukrainian descent George Ryga into English-Canadian theatre. most important feature Ryga’s style is a special attention to life, feelings, struggles downtrodden (marginalized, oppressed, neglected, abused) people in society (whether they are Indians, Ukrainians, Italians, or other nation nationality) with humane and dignified ...

In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway after a successful tour. This remarkable performance featured black cast, and staged generation that was beginning to find intellectual sources of race pride. By contrast, exactly 100 years earlier, 1859, ‘great dramatic “sensation”’ New York stage had been Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon, set plantation which describes bl...

Until now, eighteenth-century Spanish theater scholars and critics have considered Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza (1789-1857) a minor playwright. In the present collaboration we intend to demonstrate that such an assertion does not conform truth. Through contrastive study between El señorito mimado (1787) by Tomás Iriarte Contigo pan y cebolla (1833) Gorostiza, mean show latter one became renowned...

This article approaches the play Lazzaro (1948), one of first works by playwright Francisco Pereira da Silva, born in Piaui, Brazil, which he uses genre intermezzo interlaid an essentially tragic work, order to discuss its dramatic function it. The here analyzed presents many connections with tragedy Electra versions both Sophocles and Euripides. But while Greek plays Orestes is not instrument ...

This article emphasises the unrecognised popularity of Caroline playwright James Shirley’s drama on Restoration stage, demonstrating that – after Fletcher Shirley, Shakespeare and Jonson pegged pretty level in 1660s when it came to revivals. Aphra Behn’s use The Lady Pleasure (printed 1637) her later play, Lucky Chance (performed 1686), raises questions about why neither it, nor popular Bird a ...

American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder’s lifelong attraction to passion for if not obsession with the work of James Joyce has led unintended consequences. Wilder was writing what would become his second Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Skin Our Teeth, while in midst “unriddling” Joyce’s final novel, Finnegans Wake. Accusations plagiarism subsequently arise from two major scholars, Jos...

Abdias Nascimento shaped Brazil and the lives of Afro-Brazilians as an activist, a politician, internationally recognized scholar, through arts playwright, director, poet, painter. Through scholarly career that spanned much 20th century continued into 21st, his ideas preceded served model for recent growth Afro-Latin American studies discipline. This article draws on Nascimento’s writing to she...

Sarah Kane, who is a very prominent representative of in-yer-face theatre, raises her rebellious voice against social problems in an unprecedented way through plays, and the subordination women society one fundamental issues that playwright ponders on. She masterfully draws attention audience to patriarchal subjugation by employing violence plays. The present study examines Blasted (1995) Clean...

Oskar Blumenthal (1852-1917) was Berlin’s most feared theatre critic in the early years of the new German Reich. He had the audacity of referring to Goethe as “an egghead” who had no understanding of what made plays effective for audiences, and in other critiques he ridiculed Kleist, Hebbel, and other “important” playwrights—prompting an adversary publicly to call him a “one-man lynch mob.” In ...

The contemporary Assamese plays have developed as a result of numerous interwoven influences and channels. And it is clear that western were what shaped the played into their perfection. After independence, writers prose, poetry, theatre, produced works on pace with period. It demonstrated identical compositional experimentation sociological analysis. exhibit strong heritage from playwrights li...