Aphra Behn’s (Non)Canonicity as a Restoration Playwright by Maria José Coperías Aguilar

Get full text

Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: Shaping Identity through Violence by Inmaculada Pineda

Get full text

Philip C. Kolin. Williams : A Streetcar Named Desire. Stephen J. Bottoms. Albee : Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? Christopher Bigsby. Contemporary American Playwrights. by Liliane Kerjan

Get full text

Madame de Genlis on the Victorian Stage by Juan Manuel Ibeas Altamira

Subjects: Get full text

On The Verge: Dramatisation de la violence symbolique dans The Verge de Susan Glaspell by Emeline Jouve

“…This analysis will therefore consider the strategies used by the playwright to raise her spectators’ awareness of the issues surrounding symbolic violence.…”
Get full text

Writing, rewriting and revisiting the Cold War in Tom Stoppard’s Squaring the Circle. Poland 1980-81 (1984) by Jean Du Verger

“…This study sheds light on the playwright’s dilemma as he deals with historical facts and events. …”
Get full text

She Wolf by Isla Cowan by Yavuz Pala

“…This paper analyses She Wolf (2022) by the contemporary British playwright, Isla Cowan, regarding ecofeminism and cultural politics. …”
Get full text

Conflict Between African Tradition and Western Culture in The Play The Lion and The Jewel By Wole Soyinka. by Magezi, Martin Walter

“…The study objectives were to examine conflict in the play "The Lion and Jewel" by Wole Soyinka, to analyze how the playwright has used style to analyze how the playwright has used orature to bring out the conflict. …”
Get full text

Back to the roots? Namíbia, Não!, de Aldri Anunciação by Henry Thorau

“…This article analyzes how the “black comedy” Namíbia, Não!, by the young playwright Aldri Annunciation, from Bahia, elaborates the last consequences of the famous Brazilian racial democracy and of the human rights, and how it goes until the limits of the “politically correct” post-colonialist discourse in Brazil of the XXI century.…”
Get full text

Comparison of selected tools for automation testing of Web applications by Piotr Pasławski, Maciej Pańczyk

“…Three selected libraries available in Python, used for automating tests of web applications, are presented: Selenium, Playwright, and Splinter. Subsequently, a detailed comparison of these tools is made based on specific comparative criteria. …”
Get full text

Gertrude Stein’s “Historic Drama” (1930) by Emeline Jouve

“…A writer of the “continuous present,” Gertrude Stein presentifies the past which she renews by playing with the old traditions to invent new dramatic forms. The playwright’s style is emblematic of her quest to revive a lost past in the “now” of the action from which absent/present voices emerge. …”
Get full text

Borrowing another voice or the Cyrano complex by Julie Vatain

“…This article focuses on one of the playwright’s greatest successes, Painting Churches (1983) in order to investigate the vocal identity of the text through the alliance of screams, rants, everyday conversation, music and silence which makes up the dialogue. …”
Get full text

The Resurgence of Ideology in Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession (1893) by Stéphane Guy

“…In the last of his Plays Unpleasant, Shaw delves into the economic roots of prostitution, deconstructing the woman-with-a-past sham and its underlying conservative ideology. The socialist playwright and theorist seeks to lay the blame on the capitalist system and on a middle-class public all too eager to ascribe prostitution to merely individual villainy. …”
Get full text

Bouches béantes et voix blanches dans le théâtre de Howard Barker by Vanasay Khamphommala

“…The paper then analyses how the playwright delineates an imaginary and ideal voice that stands in contrast to both lyricism and banality in language. …”
Get full text

“O’er-dyed blacks” (1.2.131) : les couleurs dans Le Conte d’hiver by Sophie Chiari

“…This analysis will lead us to question the playwright’s aesthetic values at work in the last scene of the play, which stages the beautifully painted—albeit wrinkled—statue of Hermione.…”
Get full text

Rasga Coração, de Vianinha, e Hair: aproximação e distanciamento num contexto de contracultura by Éwerton Silva de Oliveira

“…Considering the plays’ formal and content structure, and the political and cultural movements of the 60’s and 70’s youth  the counterculture among them  in the North - American context and in the B razilian historical process (including the dictatorship present in Brazil in these decades), this article aims to analyze how the musical called Hair (1967), by the American actors James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and Rasga coração (1974), a play by the Brazil ian playwright Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha), represent the presence of the counterculture, with its innovations and contradictions, similarities and differences, in Brazil and in the United States. …”
Get full text

L’horreur acoustique musiques « anempathiques » dans le théâtre de Martin Crimp by Aloysia Rousseau

“…The British playwright Martin Crimp suggests an ironic use of music and sounds in his stage directions. …”
Get full text

Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“…During the Second World War the Viennese Jewish playwright Fritz Hochwälder, then living in exile in Switzerland, followed in this tradition when he wrote his tragedy, Das heilige Experiment. …”
Get full text

Richard III palimpseste.  Richard III de Verhelst mis en scène par Lagarde : l'ellipse du champ de bataille by Florence March

“…Flemish playwright Peter Verhelst's adaptation of Richard III - as staged by French director Ludovic Lagarde at the Avignon Festival in 2007 - deletes the entire last act of the play, the act that, in the Shakespearean original, dramatises the battle of Bosworth. …”
Get full text

Frames of violence and recent history in Simon Stephens' Motortown by Marion Coste

“…This paper will show how, drawing on In-Yer-Face aesthetics, the playwright subverts the framing of torture and reflects on the anti-war movement.…”
Get full text