ENGL 302 Topics in British Literature since 1800: British Drama from Wilde to Stoppard. Instr. R Elliott. 11:00 MW. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Great Britain, though its empire was at its zenith, was a theatrical backwater. The innovative plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, and other Continental playwrights had only begun to have an impact, and the popular stage was awash in stilted melo...

Function word adjacency networks (WANs) are used to study the authorship of plays from the Early Modern English period. In these networks, nodes are function words and directed edges between two nodes represent the likelihood of ordered co-appearance of the two words. For every analyzed play a WAN is constructed and these are aggregated to generate author profile networks. We first study the si...

In her article "Intermedial representations in Asian Macbeth-s" I-Chun Wang discusses three Asian versions of Macbeths that exemplify the cultural meanings through the interaction of landscape, body, and spectacles of power. Shakespeare remains one of the most popular playwrights in the Eastern world, and playwrights in the Asian world find Shakespearean plays attractive to the Asian audience. ...

The theatre, based on action, movement, and screening, was restricted by diseases epidemics also served as a mirror carrying them to the stage. From Athenian society Elizabethan era today, outbreaks, plagues communicable caused theatres be closed performances restricted. plague global problem for human beings like Covid 19; abolished social, regional, racial differences. emergence, survival, sp...

The issue of understanding the theme Great Patriotic War (1941—1945) by modern Russian playwrights is raised in article. novelty study due to appeal little-studied plays authors 21st century. purpose article trace specifics author’s individual variants artistic representation war on material works times and give an idea discursive potential this for dramaturgy. evidence base analysis three writ...

The “experimental” playwrights of continental Europe have been experimental not because they imitated modern literature or poetry, but sought to express themselves in theatrical terms, and the great directors, like Jouvet, Barrault, Viertel, Brecht there make their plays “exist” on stage.