L’Histoire culbutée : Shakespeare et ses jeux de mots by Jean-Pierre Richard

“…How text and sub-text relate is debatable: was it all done “for recreation sake” (as Falstaff will have it) by a playwright who was also an actor? Or, painfully aware that time was “out of joint”, was he on a crusade against a national history scarred at the time by wars and puritanism? …”
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Quand le théâtre s’inspire du cinéma : Jean Cocteau, Sergueï Eisenstein et Tennessee Williams by Sophie Maruéjouls-Koch

“…For cinema brought about new ways of representing the world, thus providing the playwright with the means of escaping from the realist tradition and creating the “new, plastic theatre” he advocated as early as 1944. …”
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Un opéra français d’après la Salomé de Wilde, l’appropriation d’un drame by Déborah Bonin

“…These different questions allow us to establish how the composer, before setting the text to music, came to understand the playwright’s work in order to write his own libretto.…”
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Osama the Hero (2004) de Dennis Kelly ou pourquoi le théâtre politique n’est pas une « foutue perte de temps » by Aloysia Rousseau

“…This article examines the relationship between theatre and politics based on two texts – one theoretical, the other fictional – by British playwright Dennis Kelly. It throws light on the way the Iraq War is approached in his 2004 play Osama the Hero as well as on the effects produced on the audience. …”
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Tennessee Williams’s post-pastoral Southern gardens in text and on the movie screen by Taïna Tuhkunen

“…This study explores the representation of the American South in the film adaptations of five plays by the Mississippi-born playwright, Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951), Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958), Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph L. …”
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“Nowadays the house would be called a stately home”: Pastoral Relocations in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia by John Bull

“…In this paper, I will consider the ideological implications of this paradox in relation to the playwright’s use of pastoral models that date from the English Renaissance, and yet reconfigure models of earlier post-second war British theatre, models that – according to many critical accounts – had long been superseded and abandoned. …”
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“Entre Deux Transatlantiques”: American Religion and the French Family at the Comédie-Française (1890) by LeeAnn Broderick, Carter Charles, Corry Cropper

“…Relying on a cultural studies approach, we illustrate in this article how French literary critic and playwright Philippe Gille uses Mormonism in Camille, a play in which he explores issues of gender in the context of the état civil during the Third Republic. …”
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) by Oscar Wilde: Conformity and Resistance in Victorian Society by Brigitte Bastiat

“…Nevertheless, some critics have argued that the playwright dared include homosexual connotations in the text. …”
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Yoruba Festival and the Dramatist: Satire as Spine in Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests by Olusegun i Olu-Osayomi

“…By vigorously exploiting African (Yoruba) experience, festival motif, and satiric modes, in a manner relevant to the moral development of his world, it will be seen that Soyinka, succeeds in laying the foundation for a truly Nigerian national literature and it is, in fact, on this that his strengths as a satirist playwright lie …”
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SHAKESPEARE IN LITHUANIAN by Ema Vyroubalová, Gemma Navickiene

“…Shakespeare’s plays and poetry have been translated into over one hundred languages and are performed, read, and taught throughout much of the world more often than those of any other playwright. The article aims to briefly survey the history of translating Shakespeare’s works into Lithuanian. …”
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Shakespeare en prison : le cas d’Avignon by Florence March

“…In this programme, which, just like the festival, foregrounds Shakespeare as the most often performed playwright, prison becomes a laboratory for theatre, and for Shakespeare’s drama in particular, whereas Shakespeare in his turn becomes a laboratory for revisiting the prison system.…”
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To Come Out or Not to Come Out: Queer Coming Out in Nine Lives by Zodwa Nyoni by Emre Ozmen

“…In 2014, Zimbabwean playwright Zodwa Nyoni wrote Nine Lives which delves into the coming out process and its challenges. …”
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The Dialectics of Political Ideology and Power Relations in African Literature: A Reading of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Baṣọ̀run Gáà by Sola Owonibi

“…The paper also argues that the private anxieties of the playwright, as presented in the play, 160 Lere Adeyemi are prophetic in nature and that Baṣọrun Gáà is weakened by the burdens of ̀ his strength, in other words, blinded by sight. …”
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An alien among aliens: Translating multicultural identities in Singapore’s contemporary theatre by Bei Hu

“… This article explores the conflated roles of translator and playwright embodied by Kuo Pao Kun (1939-2002), a doyen figure acclaimed as the embodiment of Singapore’s contemporary theatre. …”
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Philip Massinger et le théâtre historique : trouver la bonne distance by Gilles Bertheau

“…As soon as the death of Jan van Olden Barnevelt was known, the playwright collaborated with John Fletcher to compose a topical tragedy the subject and dramatis personae of which tested the limits of what could be condoned by the censor. …”
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Chikamatsu, Mori, and the uncanny valley by Karl F. MacDorman

“…Yet, warnings against this also thread through Japanese thought, from the Edo-period playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653–1724) to the robotics professor Mori Masahiro (1927–2025). …”
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Republican Dentists in Latin America: Luis Amado Blanco Fernández and his Contributions to Cuban Dentistry by Victoria María Sueiro Rodríguez, Asela Crescencia Villaurrutia Flores, Julia Roquelina Fuguet Boullón

“…Hence, there is a need for a study that offers an overview of the presence of dentists exiled in Latin America, focusing on Cuba and particularly, on Luís Amado Blanco Fernández, a personality who has been studied from a literary point of view (as a poet, novelist, playwright, literary and theater critic), but not for his work as a dentist and his contributions to Cuban dentistry, nor has been studied his work as a diplomat in depth.…”
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Polariser l'écart : la mise en scène du décalage dans Fram de Tony Harrison by Catherine Lanone

“…Best known as a poet, Tony Harrison is also a translator and playwright; his 2008 play Fram was badly received by critics, perhaps because it plays on key structural discrepancy, embedding as it does the story of Nansen, the polar explorer (with the eponymous boat he designed, Fram) within the frame of a play written by the ghost of the late academic Gilbert Murray. …”
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Theatre and Psychoanalysis: or Jung on Martin Crimp's Stage: “100 Words” by Solange Ayache

“…In scenario 11, the playwright reproduces the list of one hundred stimulus words devised in 1909 by the psychoanalyst to test a patient’s mental health. …”
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‘Woman Suffrage Precipice’: The Gender Politics of Laughter in Elizabeth Robins’s The Convert (1907) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…An actress turned playwright and political militant, Elizabeth Robins was aware of the political uses of laughter. …”
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