Yoruba Festival and the Dramatist: Satire as Spine in Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests by Olusegun i Olu-Osayomi

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Translating Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks: Just another ‘Rep & Rev’? by Kathinka Salzmann

“…This article explores some of the main challenges one has to deal with when translating a play whose language — African American Vernacular English — is linked to a specific context and culture, as is the case with Topdog/Underdog (1999), by the African American dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks. In particular, I shall seek to establish how a notion such as the ‘politically correct’ is questioned by the translatorial process, thus emphasising the translator’s ethical responsibility, while also showing how Parks grounds her writing in the idea of ‘repetition and revision’ characteristic of the Jazz aesthetic.…”
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Se souvenir du tribun et de l’apôtre. John Ruskin par son traducteur Émile Cammaerts (1878-1953) by Julie Lageyre

“…Émile Cammaerts (1878–1953) was a Belgian poet, journalist and dramatist. He was one of the most important translators of John Ruskin in French. …”
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Caliban’s Cave: Theatre’s Scandalous Ethics by Liza Kharoubi

“…In this paper, it is contended that Plato’s Complex — the dramatist turned philosopher— unveils a serious ethical issue. …”
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SUPERNATURALISM AND MYSTICISM IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S PLAY HAMLET by Muharrani Nurmalasari, Ruly Adha

“… William Shakespeare is the greatest dramatist in the world. He has produced a lot of literary works especially play or drama. …”
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"There’d always be something left" : (im)matérialité de la ville dans Hughie de Eugene O’Neill by Aurélie Sanchez

“…Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie exemplifies the dramatist’s concern with the theme of absence. In this late one-act play, New York remains at first invisible and the stage constitutes an empty space. …”
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HAROLD PINTER: FROM POETICS TO POLITICS by Dilek İNAN

“…He sıviftly became accepted as Britain’s premier dramatist. This paper traces the evolution that Pinter has gone through from the early 1950s until the 2000s. …”
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‘Laugh a defiance, Laugh in hope’: Suffrage Comedy and Humour as Political Protest by Eleanor Stewart

“…Within the ritualized framework of the comic genre, the suffrage dramatists use self-derision to provoke empathy and encourage derisory laughter towards their detractors. …”
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Allured by Satan, the World and the Flesh: Representations of Temptation in Medieval English Drama by Pınar Taşdelen

“…The ideas of heaven and hell are developed with regard to the avoidance of temptation, putting emphasis on the possibility of being abstained from temptation. Medieval dramatists represent the temptations in several mystery and morality plays so as to warn their audience against temptation, present temptation as something to be abstained from through biblical accounts, beginning with Satan’s temptation, followed with an individual’s falling into temptation oneself. …”
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”If you don't care you’ll die” : The Concept of “Liveness” in Arnold Wesker’s Chicken Soup with Barley and John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger by Sarah-jane Coyle

“…Both plays represent dramas of emotion and were written by members of the “angry young men” movement, a term denoting a group of working-class dramatists, who used their work to express frustration with Britain’s outdated class system and post-war society. …”
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Sword of heaven by Richard Wilson

“…If Shakespeare editions have been slow to absorb the news from Vienna that the schizophrenia of Measure for Measure is a result not of authorial despair, but of its having been constructed by two dramatists of distinct generations and mentalities, working some sixteen years apart, they have nonetheless always registered resistance in the play to this totalitarian project of putting power on display.…”
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Relaciones hipertextuales en la primera etapa de Rodolf Sirera (1969–1977) by Ramon X. Rosselló

“…Sirera is one of the most notable dramatists writing in Catalan, beginning his career with an involvement in what was then called ‘independent theatre’ as a member of groups like the Centre Experimental de Teatre and El Rogle. …”
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Sword of Heaven : Political Theology in Measure for Measure by Richard Wilson

“…If Shakespeare editions have been slow to absorb the news from Vienna that the schizophrenia of Measure for Measure is a result not of authorial despair, but of its having been constructed by two dramatists of distinct generations and mentalities, working some sixteen years apart, they have nonetheless always registered resistance in the play to this totalitarian project of putting power on display.…”
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‘What a perennial delight is in hearing the French language spoken!’: Class, Language and Taste in the Maison de Molière’s French Performances in London (1871–1893) by Ignacio Ramos Gay

“…Through an examination of the reviews and impressions published by an array of professionals, including leading theatre critics at the time, dramatists, actors and aficionados, the research analyses the sociological, political, and aesthetic implications associated with the firm presence of the French language and French canonical plays in late Victorian London. …”
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