Abstract Pelopidarum secunda is an understudied anonymous English adaptation of Seneca's Agamemnon and Sophocles' Electra . The play preserved only in manuscript was probably performed at Winchester College around 1590. Through a combination Marvin Carlson's notions ‘ghosting’ the ‘site memory’ with neo‐historicist approach, article offers close analysis this neglected school from intertextual,...

calling tradition is among clearest areas which can be found in modern dramatic literary and artistic texts.  the ancient hero is quite well known  and since long has  found his place in literature and art of different nations especially in legends, epics, folk tales, oral literature and dramatic texts such that it was in a battle with other elements and defeated them. abou khalil alqabbani, th...

Focusing on the cultural significations and artistic capacities of naqqali, this article examines the comparative workings of this Iranian popular genre in Hossein Jamali’s Hamlet: The Retribution Affair. Jamali’s adaptation is worth considering since it narrates the whole events and characters of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a classic text of English literature, through naqqali, a classic Persian gen...

The present study is an attempt to investigate conversational repair phenomenon in Persian dramatic discourse and it tries to check the presence of any predominant preference for employing a specific type of repair rather than the others in the context of Persian drama. To reach the aforementioned purpose, Schegloff, Jefferson, and Sacks’s (1977) framework has been adopted and applied to Akbar ...

The personal archive of Adam Tarn (1902–1975), the first editor-in-chief Dialog monthly and a translator, critic, novelist, playwright, includes notes with loose ideas for plays, to his unfinished book on Chekhov, minor literary attempts, which he corrected, set aside later expanded. This material, Tarn’s heirs kindly offered me study, constitutes valuable proof creative process evolution writi...

drama is an obvious cultural activity. this literary form is a means of solidarity between human beings and opens new horizons for dialogue among races, ethnicities and different colors in spite of different point of views, opinions and beliefs. drama is proper for applying national themes and calling for freedom, rising against oppression and resistance. the present article surveys the works o...

Abstract Tanika Gupta’s varied work as a playwright encompasses transadaptation in range of forms. This article will focus on two her plays, Hobson’s Choice (2003/2019) and Wah! Girls (2012), exploring the ways which she depicts representations South Asian communities Britain different ways. reworks original 1916 play to being set among Bengali community working rag trade Salford. The focuses f...

Best known as a caricaturist who skewered the politicians and social mores of nineteenth-century France, Honoré Daumier also had deep abiding engagement with seventeenth-century playwright Molière. This article examines Daumier’s paintings Molière’s plays Le Malade imaginaire (1673) Les Fourberies de Scapin (1671), initiated shortly after was fired from thirty-year position working for illustra...

Abstract The publication in 2021 of the Oxford English Texts version Oscar Wilde’s Russian melodrama Vera; or, Nihilist (1883), based, as it is, on new archival research by its editor Josephine Guy, deepens mystery surrounding alleged censorship first play. While Wilde himself promoted idea that expression democratic ideals his play had prevented performance England, a genetic analysis an early...

American playwright, novelist, story and biography writer Gertrude Stein, with her avant-garde perception destructing the theatre conventions, became one of inspiring playwrights for experimental theater in twentieth century. Stein's plays were interpreted by directors performance artists from various disciplines such as painting, music, plastic arts literature. When we look at theoretical text...