English dramatists and playwrights

Vijay Tendulkar, a great Marathi playwright, was born on 7 Th January, 1928 in Mumbai (Maharashtra).Silence! The court is in session (1967), the first Tendulkar’s play to become part of the New Indian Drama phenomenon of the sixties and the first significant modern Indian play in any language to centre on woman as protagonist and victim. With its production Tendulkar became the center of a general controversy. He had already acquired the epithet of “the angry young man” of Marathi theatre but…

Semester One Final Essay: Rethinking The Frogs Debate The two playwrights I have chosen for the purpose of this essay are Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673), known by his stage name as Molière, and Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906). Molière was born on January 15th in Paris, France and is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. I have chosen Molière as one of my two playwrights because I believe that one of the ways to ‘save society’ is through comedy. Ibsen…

disaster because in this new genre, Dryden did not take into consideration the dramatic theories ,instead he was dependent on his own notion of imagination and thought which was not appreciated by the audience in the beginning. But with time as playwrights gained experience, their works also gained momentum and the audiences’ likability. Newspapers and other reading materials which were only available for the upper middle classes were now accessible even to the common masses, thus promoting…

A sensational dramatist and poet in addition to the son of the town bailiff, William Shakespeare had grown to become one of the most universally-known figures, whose thought-invoking plays and sonnets have enraptured the minds of people and continue to do so even to this day. While growing up in the town of Stratford Upon Avon in a household of ___, his father’s prominent position allowed him to have an education in the local grammar school. There, Shakespeare was taught Latin, a skill that was…

Outline 1- Definitions: a) The frustration of not achieving a goal and antagonistic and annoying actions like offenses, gashes and blusters are definitely led to anger. b) Unlike other aversive emotions such as grief and fear, which include suppression and retreat, Dagleish identifies anger as a negative emotion, but includes a positive approach. c) Cox and Harrison simply define the structure of anger as a multidimensional one with different influential and cognitive dimensions and various…

CHAPTER – VIII CONCLUSION In the mid nineteen fifties in British theatre ‘Angry young men’ like Osborne, Amis and others with their theatrical works stirred the English society. They came out as angry young men and described various forms of social alienation and radical political views in their works. In Indian drama Vijay Tendulkar appeared on the scene in the later 1960s with his powerful plays like Kamala, Silence! The Court is in Session, Sakharam Binder, The Vultures, Ghashiram Kotwal,…

Partnow and Edward A. Kopper Jr. Two people who can be considered credible sources considering they are both authors of books on women playwrights in the time of Lady Gregory. The different analysis that each critics gives, gives readers a deeper understanding of the the theme of this play, therefore being able to…

selling fiction author of all time (estimated 4 billion copies sold). There are more than 80 variations recorded for the spelling of Shakespeare’s name. Shakespeare was also an actor who performed many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights. William Shakespeare…

Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist, and figure in 20th century American theater. Miller was a very famous playwriting person, many people wanted to buy some of his work, He also wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits. Arthur Miller was a playwriting essayist and people all over the world admire and study them. Arthur was born in October 17, 1915, in New York, Miller majored in journalism and worked as a reporter and editor for the…

Abstract: Girish Karnad has given the traditional tale a new meaning and significance highly relevant in the context of life today. He seems to have used myth with a view to expose the absurdity of life with all its elemental passions and conflicts, and also to show man’s eternal struggle to achieve perfection. Karnad, in his plays, tries to evolve a symbolic form out of tension between the archetypal and mythic experience and a living response to life and its values. The new dimension and…