INTRODUCTION The Restoration period was not just an era of comic extravaganza on evil manners; there was equally an effort to produce drama of serious note. John Dryden (1631 – 1700), Thomas Otway (1652 – […][…]
The Victorian drama, that is to say, the English drama of the 19th century is not a memorable one in terms of dramatic literature. In fact, the English dramatic literature which began to decline in […][…]
INTRODUCTION The Act for Regulating the Theatre promulgated by the British parliament in 1843 granted legitimate production right to the minor or ‘illegitimate’ theatres. This Act marked the end of the monopoly enjoyed by the […][…]
INTRODUCTION The focus of this article is on George Bernard Shaw- one of the most remarkable English playwrights of the modern period. Since a study unit is not adequate to do a profound study of […][…]
INTRODUCTION According to Brockett and Hildy: Although Dublin has been one of the major British theatrical centers since the seventeenth century, it saw no significant attempt to create an independent Irish drama until 1898 when […][…]
This article examines the effort to revitalise poetic drama on the English stage by notable English poets like W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, etc. It will look at the purpose of the attempt and […][…]
This article examines English drama from the middle of the 20th century to the present. It shows how the Second World War and its consequences changed the face of the English drama and, in fact, […][…]
The ‘Anger Period and after’, marked a turning-point in English dramatic history. From the 1950s, something unexpected began to stir up in English drama. Young playwrights like Osborne, Delany, Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Ann Jellicose Wesker, […][…]