Lady
Gregory: The Rising of the Moon
Lady
Gregory’s The Rising of the
Moon is an explicitly political
play dealing with the relation between
England and Ireland trying to fight
for freedom from English rule.
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Greek
Drama
Sophocles:
Oedipus Rex Oedipus
Rex vividly dramatizes the tension
between individuals and their interdependences
as well. As the city of Thebes has been
paralyzed by a plague the people expect
something from the king to end their
suffering.
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Aristophenes:
Lysistrata Aristophanes
takes up the issue of war in the cities
of ancient Greece and satirizes war
for the loss of life and property it
has caused. Through a conflict between
the sexes he exposes the futility of
war and the devastation it has brought
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Renaissance
Drama
William
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's
Dream Shakespeare
explores the issues of inconsistency
in human nature and relation by creating
a world of dream where the characters
behave in an irrational way by running
after dreams, fantasies and romance
that lead to anarchy, chaos, and confusion.
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William
Shakespeare: Hamlet Hamlet
is a revenge tragedy written in the
line of Roman senecan tragedy. It is
the tragedy of reflection and moral
sensitivity. The protagonist is very
reflective and too sensitive thus unfit
for taking revenge throug action.
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William
Shakespeare: The Tempest
The play’s
major focus is on Prospero’s quest
for perfection, knowledge and power.
He devotes himself to learning even
to the extent of neglecting his duties
as a ruler. Read
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Late
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Drama
William
Congreve: The Way of the World
Restoration
drama had to depict the contemporary
times. There was a moneyed class with
a search for pleasure. Money became
the main concern of the people. Read More...
Ninenteenth
Century Drama through the Turn of the
Century
Oscar
Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
A
comedy is a play with happy ending and
aims at making people laugh at certain
follies, vanities, hypocrisies and weaknesses
of people for reforming society. Read More...
Henrik
Ibsen: A Doll's House
August
Strindberg: Miss Julie
Anton
Chekov: The Cherry Orchard The
history of the early twentieth century
Russian society is the history of social
transition, transformation. The late
19th century Russian society was struggling
to be free from the shibboleth of the
dying feudal aristocracy. Read More...
Drama
in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century
Eugene
O'Neill: Desire Under the Elms O’Neill
presents women as victims of male’s
greed and cruelty and at the same time
it is women who are driven by a desire
for property. They are shown as lustful
too. To bring out this image of women
O’Neill resorts to myth, symbol
and the technique of naturalism.
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Bertolt
Brecht: Galileo
Tenesse
William: The Glass Menagerie
Arthur
Miller: Death of a Salesman
Samuel
Beckett: Endgame Beckett’s
play Endgame belongs to the
theatre of the Absurd as it views life
as meaningless and beyond human rationality
to understand. It shows the influence
of existentialist philosophy
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Drama
in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century
Arthur
Fugrad: The Master Harold ::: and
the boys Athol
Fugrad’s Master Harol….
and the boys is written in South
African context and the issue of apartheid
is central in the play.
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Marsha
Norman: Night, Mother Marsha
Norman’s one act play Night Mother
is basically about Jessie, who is preparing
for suicide which may have been provoked
by her relation with the other people
and the failure of communication and
lack of understanding in that relation.
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