David Greig, one of the pioneering playwrights contemporary Scottish theater, deals with such issues as identity, globalization, war, and environment in his plays. His play Outlying Islands mobilizes these together to question ethics human-nature relationship. It demonstrates humanity’s adverse impact on nature through a military anthrax test be conducted an island before WWII. The aim this pap...

A major event in the history of Bangladesh, the liberation war of 1971 has been represented on the silver screen with passion and authenticity as well. In most cases, the representation is gendered, concentrating on the male protagonists, who fight for the country while women appear mostly as victims. However, recent films have made a step towards 'thinking otherwise'. In the recent socio-cultu...

Regarded as one of the polemical playwrights considerably touched by firm atmosphere Thatcherite reign in Britain, Mark Ravenhill comes to forefront with his bold spirit and opponent voice reflected all works through unconventional narrative style. Inasmuch he is generally placed into theatrical sensibility In-Yer-Face theatre which substantially fuelled politics Margaret Thatcher, later plays ...

Many central playwrights significantly contributed to the progress and advancement of Arabic drama. They were apt achieve dramatic illustrations in several countries all way through ages places. Still, this study attempts shed light on an innovator poet-dramatist who represents many cultures experiences. It aims at displaying most significant features renovation associated with development mode...

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...

Women’s professional involvement in drama dates back to the restoration period England, during which female dramatists emerged English both as playwrights and actresses. The plays written by included mostly domestic issues, modesty, obedience, chastity early period, following traits of patriarchal authors depicting women within limits virtue. Aphra Behn one most important well-known her who lat...

Lionel Abel coined the word ‘metatheatre’ in his 1963 book, Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form, claiming he had discovered a new type of theatre, and cited Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the first metatheatrical play. Over the intervening decades, various scholars have pushed the incidence of the earliest metatheatrical play back beyond Hamlet. Richard Hornby, in his 1986 book, Drama, Metadrama,...

In her article "The Canon and Shakespeare's Plays on the Contemporary East Asian Stage" I-Chun Wang argues that although globalization often refers to the phenomenon of international trade and (im)migrants, globalization has made strong impacts in all aspects of culture and literature. Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have attracted attention of East Asian playwrights and di...

In her article "Rethinking Theatrical Images of the New Woman in China's Republican Era" Li Guo analyses the multivalent representations of the New Woman and posits that they encompass a broad array of blended feminine identities following the introduction of Western literary and cultural trends into Chinese culture. The tensions between ideological discourses about nation, gender, and politics...