The beginning of the 19th century is marked by the exponential development of dramatic literature and an increased interest in historical themes. Children and young people are a target audience as ...evidenced by the spate of so-called “historical” plays, disseminated in printed form or performed on stage. What was the purpose of these dramatized historical fiction? Were they supposed to teach History, thus supporting a discipline that was progressively taking centre stage in education? How did they (re)write great collective events and assess past acts of violence? Was the historical event important in itself or was it but the vehicle of a broader plan to entertain, indoctrinate, raise moral standards and shape young minds? The study of a body of 8 plays dating back to the French Restoration and the July Monarchy provides some insight into possible answers. Apparently, the point is not so much to ‘write’ History as to develop a common middle-class culture and generate a sense of French identity through references to famous figures. The ideological ambition is also quite obvious: while instilling the love of royalty in young audiences at the beginning of the Restoration, the plays should also provide moral role models designed to ensure long-lasting political stability. Interestingly, at the end of the reign of King Charles X, dramatic literature takes a more critical turn and begins to spread more liberal and republican values with a view to educating future citizens whose voting decisions will bear upon the political destiny of their country.
In my 2022-23 Fulbright Award to Spain and Greece, I took on the daunting task of writing six plays, titled Mi Corazón Español Vive Ahora En Grecia: Six Plays of Sephardic Greece, about the Spanish ...roots of the Jewish communities of Thessaloniki and Veria, of which I am a descendent (my father’s mother, my Nona, Mary Massarano Crespin was from Thessaloniki, and my Nono, Isaac Morris Crespin was from Veroia). This project was built upon a previous 2018 Fulbright project titled Madre de Israel: Three Plays of Jewish Salonika. In this essay, I will document and analyze my dramatic adaptation process for both Fulbright Projects, creating living histories for the stage to memorialize a Sephardic Jewish world nearly destroyed by the Holocaust. Working through a process which included teaching, oral narrative, traditional scholarship, and the creative research of exploring the geography, family histories, and cultural experiences of Ladino/Spanish music, poetry, and storytelling, I have written a total of 10 new plays, all using a non-linear technique of dreamwork for dramatic writing. The challenges tied to this ongoing project include the absence of collective memory, the destruction of entire communities, and the controversial curation of places of Jewish memory.
Theorizing about literature over the centuries has been a significant intellectual exercise of high degree that has, among other things, majorly kept the study of literature afloat. The thrust of ...theory, on this note, is to give perspectives to literature; that is, a conceptual framework for its critical investigation. Against this background, this study has also attempted to conceptualize a relatively novel critical framework in dramatic studies which has been referred to as ‘existential-tragedy’. The concept is woven around the philosophical nexus of Absurdism and Tragedy with the theoretical assumption drawn from the Nietzschean principle of ‘Primal Unity’ in Birth of Tragedy. It encapsulates man as a being in existence who is caught up in an enclosed journey between creation and annihilation, and who constantly demonstrates an unconscious awareness to this underlying reality through his series of engagements in life. This unconscious phenomenon is contextualized in this study as ‘death anxiety’ which silently characterizes man’s struggles with life, as actors on the stage. Ultimately, the study is being established as a move towards theorizing a new conceptual framework and/or critical context, not only in the analysis of tragic and absurd plays, but also in literary criticism at large.
In this paper we aim to pay tribute to Albert Camus by studying its presence in the most recent Spanish drama. For our purposes, we have chosen Caligula, one of his pieces which have been ...reinterpreted more often by Spanish playwrights. We will unveil the keys of the reiterpretation of this text by some directors; we will also observe the way the literary text is transformed into a theatrical even; finally, we will pay attention to the issues of its cultural and temporal adaptation.
resumo Este artigo tem como proposta aproximar De onde vem o verão (1989-90), de Carlos Alberto Soffredini, de Vestido de noiva (1943), de Nelson Rodrigues, compreendendo as múltiplas referências ...textuais e intertextuais existentes na peça de Soffredini. Para isso, consideram-se na obra desses autores dois momentos de modernidade dramática, tendo em vista as formas híbridas desenvolvidas e alinhadas aos anseios de cada época de criação.
abstract This article aims to approach De onde vem o verão (1989-90), written by Carlos Alberto Soffredini, and Vestido de noiva Wedding Dress (1943), written by Nelson Rodrigues, understanding the multiple textual and intertextual references that exist in Soffredini’s play. For this, two moments of dramatic modernity are examined in the work of these playwrights, taking into account the hybrid forms developed in both plays and that reflect the historical context of each playwright’s work.
resumen Éste artículo pretende acercarse a De onde vem o verão (1989-90), de Carlos Alberto Soffredini, y Vestido de noiva (1943), de Nelson Rodrigues, por medio de la comprensión de las múltiples referencias textuales e intertextuales existentes en la pieza de Soffredini. Para eso, se consideran en la obra de estos autores dos momentos de la modernidad dramática, teniendo en cuenta las formas híbridas desarrolladas y alineadas con los anhelos de cada tiempo de creación.
The research focuses on showing the demands of aesthetic-emotional work in the independent theater job market for the graduates of the degree in Dramatic Literature and Theater from the National ...Autonomous University of Mexico (LLDyT). The methodology used is configurationist oriented with a qualitative approach and with the application of in-depth interviews. The results show that the romanticized notions of their work, which by means of structural and subjective components exalt the adverse and unsafe working conditions, reach the point of promoting free work or "for the love of art", giving rise to an acute precarious dynamic.
La investigación se centra en mostrar las exigencias del trabajo estético-emocional en el mercado de trabajo del teatro independiente de las y los egresados de la licenciatura en Literatura Dramática y Teatro de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (LLDyT). La metodología utilizada es de orientación configuracionista con un enfoque cualitativo y con aplicación de entrevistas en profundidad. Los resultados muestran que las nociones romantizadas de su quehacer, que mediante componentes estructurales y subjetivos exaltan las condiciones de trabajo adversas e inseguras, llegan al punto de promover el trabajo gratuito o “por amor al arte”, dando pie a una dinámica precaria aguda.
BACKGROUND: Today, one of the biggest concerns of parents is protecting their children and properly educating them about sex. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of educational ...intervention on parental skills in sex education on their children in elementary schools in the northwest of Tehran-Iran in 2019 based on literature. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 125 parents of elementary schoolchildren in the northwestern of Tehran. The data were collected by valid and reliable questionnaire. Before the intervention, two intervention and control groups filled up the pretest questionnaire; the data were collected by valid and reliable questionnaire. Before the intervention, two intervention and control groups filled the pretest questionnaire, and then the parents participated in the educational program based on dramatic literature. Two months later, the same questionnaire was completed by the control and intervention groups. Finally, the data were analyzed by regression and one-way ANOVA test. RESULTS: The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of knowledge in the experimental and control groups in the posttest (P < 0.01). There was also a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of attitude in the experimental and control groups at the posttest stage (P < 0.01). There was also a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of performance based on group membership (experimental group and control group) in the posttest phase (P < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The findings of the study showed that educational intervention on parental skills in sex education based on the dramatic literature to their children has significant effect on parental knowledge, attitude, and performance.
En el contexto de la literatura y el teatro argentinos del siglo XX, este ensayo aborda un conjunto de antologías de textos dramáticos de las últimas décadas. Define las funciones y características ...fundamentales de la antología teatral, y muestra los cambios que en ella se van produciendo desde la apertura democrática hasta la actualidad. Para esto se seleccionan tres casos paradigmáticos correspondientes a momentos estéticos y sociohistóricos diferenciados: la antología de Teatro Abierto, las del grupo Caraja-ji, y la Antología de teatro latinoamericano lanzada recientemente y con más de 400 páginas dedicadas al teatro argentino. Este recorrido permite advertir el paso de obras predominantemente realistas y con un mensajismo asociado a la búsqueda de una identidad social unificada, a obras teatralistas, con una fuerte presencia de intertextos literarios y cinematográficos, y mucho más opacas en el aspecto referencial. Las antologías más actuales evidencian una atomización temática, gran variedad en cuanto a las estéticas reunidas, y un giro en los paratextos con una mayor reflexión sobre la labor del mismo antólogo.
This dissertation examines the portrayal of physically disabled characters in dramatic literature over the course of the late nineteenth through the twentieth into the twenty-first century. My core ...argument is that performance art, sideshows, and theatre are “safe” means by which people have been able to look fixedly at those who are different. Additionally, this project will address the historical context of certain plays’ productions and how our evolving understanding of, representations of, and conceptions about those who are “different” change over time. Theatre allows individuals to be seen and to see; thus, by utilizing the core concepts and ideas already associated by scholars to describe physically disabled characters in literature and film, my intention is to broaden the scope of analysis by taking the terminology out of the reductive, culturally pervasive stereotypes of the disabled in order to show how these plays portraying physically disabled characters need not be confined to one particular stereotype. By taking into consideration not just the character, but the content, history, production, mise-en-scène of certain plays, we may see how these physically disabled characters shift from “material metaphor,” as Mitchell and Snyder suggest, to active agents. By studying these characters and plays within a set of models—financial, moral, medical, and identity—the conversation can shift where some of these characters no longer are passive, helpless victims of disability but are representations of characters that happen to be physically disabled.
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