Une promise pour la licorne : quand Denis Johnston crève l’horizon de la scène irlandaise by Virginie Girel-Pietka

“…It did not meet the audience’s or the critics’ expectations since the playwright aimed at redefining them. He endeavoured to create an original piece of work, breaking away from the realistic drama which prevailed in Ireland at the time. …”
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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models of earlier post-second war British theatre, models that – according to many critical accounts – had long been superseded and abandoned.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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Morgue of the Misbegotten: O’Neill’s Pattern of Salvation in The Iceman Cometh by Mufeed F. Al-Abdullah

“…This paper analyzes Eugene O’Neill’s advocation of the impossibility of salvation or reformation on both societal and individual levels as dramatized in The Iceman Cometh. The method the playwright uses is to have a group of derelict characters gather in an isolated place and put them under the spell of a savior, Hickey, who aspires to shape their lives according to his own vision. …”
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Jane Eyre de Michael Berkeley et de David Malouf : La transposition opératique d’un grand classique de la littérature anglaise by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…Premiered on June 30, 2000 by Music Theatre Wales at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, this opera is based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë and the libretto is written by the Australian poet, novelist, playwright and librettist, David Malouf. It was risky and daring to try to adapt this famous and long novel for the stage. …”
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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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Escenas de sororidad: teatro, performance y redes de mujeres en la prensa brasileña by María Alejandra Aguilar  Dornelles

“…Particularly, I explore a tribute to Ribeiro starring a group of women who staged her support and publicly celebrated her as the greatest playwright of the period. The spectacularization of women’s solidarity reveals that the theatre contributed to the circulation of gender performances that questioned patriarchy. …”
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« Breaking Down the Borders of Memory : The Transatlantic Politics of Metatheatre in Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play » by Noelia Hernando-Real

“…The article discusses some of the theatrical strategies that Sarah Ruhl employs in Passion Play (2010) to challenge monolithic descriptions of historical memory and which enable the playwright to bridge the gap between Europe and the United States and between past and present. …”
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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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Polychrome sculptures in Romeo and Juliet and The Winter’s Tale by Olivia COULOMB

“…Interestingly enough, in Romeo and Juliet, the playwright had already presented the supposedly ‘deadlike’ Juliet as a recumbent statue. …”
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L’Art du détour selon Shakespeare : les déviations de Troilus and Cressida, d’Othello et de The Tempest by Sophie Alatorre

“…Oblique strategies are thus used by the playwright to generate extra-ordinary emotions: weaving a dramatic web to ensnare the spectators, Shakespeare creates a subversive art which fascinates precisely because of its refusal to follow well-traced, ordinary paths. …”
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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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The problem of faith crisis in the drama 'The Bus' by Lukas Bärfuss by E.N. Shevchenko

“…Lukas Bärfuss, a contemporary Swiss playwright, is one of the brightest representatives of the new German-language drama. …”
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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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City Anamorphoses in Measure for Measure by Sophie CHIARI

“…Measure for Measure is a dark tragicomedy unusually set in a Central European city, a place which works as a palimpsest characteristic of Shakespeare’s geographical ambiguities. The playwright uses Italian sources, resorts to commedia dell’arte devices, gives his characters Italian names, and as is often the case with his other Italian plays, endows Italy with a certain sense of freedom as opposed to Vienna, where sexual behavior is about to be strictly regulated. …”
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