Alexander Nevsky or Alexander Svirsky: On A. N. Ostrovsky’s Patron Saint by Irina A. Yedoshina

“…The author of the article draws attention to the fact that the holy Reverend Alexander Svirsky was the closest saint to the time of Ostrovsky’s christening, and the future playwright could be named in his honor. The circumstances accompanying the acquisition of the name Alexander are noted: a letter from the playwright to his uncle, priest P. …”
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Women in the life and work of Alojzy Feliński by Magdalena Patro‑Kucab

“…The authors of papers dedicated to Alojzy Feliński, while reaching for his works, analyzed above all his Barbara Radziwiłłówna or Hymn na rocznicę ogłoszenia Królestwa Polskiego… Unfortunately, there are no broader discussions of Feliński’s relationships with women within research interests, despite the fact that many episodes addressed to them can be found in the playwright’s work. In the exemplification, the author of the article examines fragments of letters, diaries and poems relating to women who played a special role in the playwright’s life. …”
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ACTUALIZATION OF "СANDIDE": ENLIGHTENMENT'S TOPIC FOR THE NEW DRAMA

“…«Candide» by the British playwright has been his most ambitious postmodern game with a precedent plot so far. …”
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DECONSTRUCTING FALSE IDENTITY: EXPLORING GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND ROLE-PLAYING IN THE GIRL WHO TOUCHED THE STARS by Neeraj Sankhyan, Suman Sigroha

“…Specifically, the paper explores the deconstruction of identity of the protagonist as employed by the playwright and examines the implications this technique has on the narrative of the play. …”
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Brave New Worlds. Shakespearean Tempests in Italian Prisons by Mariacristina Cavecchi

“…Shakespeare is a pivotal and much staged playwright by theatre companies of prisoners in Italy, even though the practice of theatre in prison in Italy has a much shorter tradition than in the Anglo-Saxon world. …”
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The contemporary grotesque in Matéi Vișniec’s theater by Camylla Galante

“…Being the playwright a self-stated adept of the Theater of the Absurd, he frequently recurs to uncommon conclusions, in which the grotesque outstands, giving the tone of the plays. …”
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Interdependency in three Beckettian plays by Chiang, Michelle Hui Ling

“…Although noted by many literary scholars that a sense of interdependency between Samuel Beckett’s dramatic characters permeates the playwright’s work, the vast research done on Beckett’s drama seems to overlook the importance of this relationship between his characters. …”
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“A ninguno imitó; nació para maestro, y no discípulo”: Calderón’s early debt to Lope de Vega and others by Thacker, J

“…Calderón had a relatively short period of apprenticeship as a playwright. The speed of his rise to prominence amongst his peers and his achieving success with audiences, popular and courtly, which were the result of the consummate skills he displayed as a dramatist, helped contribute to the rapid condensing of the myth of his having been born fully formed. …”

La mar que m’envolta by Jaume Miró

“…Jaume Miró, a Majorcan playwright, presents here what motivates him to write and engages in a reflection on the local and the universal…”
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Arithmétique théâtrale : l’auteur et le metteur en scène by Konstantin Iliev

“…From his experience as a playwright and dramaturge, K. Iliev describes the very conflictual relationship of author and director as he has experienced them in his career.…”
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Sophie Treadwell y la cuestión racial: el difícil equilibrio entre tradición e innovación / Sophie Treadwell and the Racial Question: The Difficult Balance between Tradition and In... by Miriam López Rodríguez

“…An analysis of the other plays written by this playwright will allow us to see how almost all the rest of her productions has the classic structure of realist drama; however, this traditionalism in form contrasts with a very innovative subject matter.…”
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Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer: by Sohana Manzoor

“…Now a more critically acclaimed playwright, McPherson calls his work “a fable about a struggle for redemption.” …”
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Specifics of Off-Stage Space in Drama of D. Lipskerov by O. Yu. Osmukhina, I. R. Kuryaev

“…In the reader’s discourse, off-stage space is introduced both by remarks and according to the internal focalization of the text, in connection with which the playwright emphasizes the act of observation and description of the visible in the textual binding. …”
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Filozofia a dramat, na przykładzie twórczości Jean Paul Sartre’a [Philosophy and Drama, on the Example of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Work] by Joanna Ros

“…In conclusion, Sartre’s dramas are a kind of theatrical phenomenon,because as a philosopher he interested the spectator as much as an playwright.…”
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Where Do I Belong? Power And Class Struggle In Miss Julie And The Hairy Ape by Banu Öğünç

“…Written 1888 by Swedish playwright August Strindberg, Miss Julie is considered a naturalistic play that deals with power struggles between the characters Jean and Julie in terms of gender and class. …”
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From Spoken Word to Playwriting by Agathe Faucourt, Jade Thomas

“…Interview with Aleshea Harris, playwright, screenwriter and performer. The interview was conducted over Zoom on the 22nd of November, 2022.…”
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TWO ANALYSIS OF PLAYS ON PEDOPHILIA: KARATAVUK and DONMUŞ / PEDOFİLİ ÜZERİNE İKİ OYUN İNCELEMESİ: KARATAVUK ve DONMUŞ by Dilek Zerenler

“…English playwright Byron Lavery in his play Frozen focuses on the childhood of the paedophile.…”
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About the Originality of the Manifestation of the Aesthetic Function in Modern Dramatic Discourse by Irina P Zaitseva

“…The article focuses on one - the key, in the author’s opinion - aspect of the analysis of the modern dramatic work, which allows to demonstrate the peculiarities of the aesthetic function in the works belonging to this literary genus: the consideration of the principles of the organization of the playwright of the compositional and speech zone of the characters. …”
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Image of Mary Stuart in Tragedies of C. H. Spiess and F. Schiller by Arkadii N. Makarov, Elena V. Kirichuk

“…Features of the interpretation of events related to the life and death of the Queen of Scotland, Mary Stuart (1542-1587), in the works of the outstanding German playwright F. Schiller (1759-1805) and his contemporary, the famous writer Christian Heinrich Spiess (Spiess, 1755-1799) is considered. …”
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The Lower Depths on the German Stage by Svetlana M. Demkina

“…Steady interest in Gorky as a playwright in Germany is due to the acute social importance and universality of the problems reflected in his dramas. …”
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