About folklore in the creative activity of Mykhailo Starytsky and Mykola Lysenko and its influence on the formation of the Ukrainian professional music and drama theater by Liudmyla Kokhan, Larysa Kokhan

“…The main attention is paid to the analysis of the playwright’s use of descriptions of rituals, customs, traditions, folk morals of Ukrainians, as well as examples of the use of small folk genres, phraseology. …”
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Metafictional artists and self-reflexive theatricality in Dermot Healy’s a goat’s song by Li, Ye

“…This influence is clearly manifested in Healy’s second novel A Goat’s Song (1994), which begins with a distinctively Beckettian scene: the playwright Jack Ferris waits for the return of his actress girlfriend Catherine Adams. …”
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Motivi biblici nell’opera teatrale di Stanisław Wyspiański e Jerzy Grotowski by Luca Bernardini

“…The paper deals about two plays by the so called “fourth bard” of Polish literature, the modernist playwright Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907). Best known for his drama The Wedding (1901), Wyspiański devoted his first theatrical work, an opera libretto published only after his death, to Daniel (1895). …”
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“God bless thee! Thou art translated!”: On two Brazilian tempests “God bless thee! Thou art translated!”: On two Brazilian tempests by Aimara da Cunha Resende

“…When attending a performance of a play of Shakespeare’s in
 countries such as Brazil, where the playwright is not part of national identity indicative of economic hegemony, one becomes aware of the possibilities his work opens to the most diverse readings and tends to think of Shakespeare as one among the many tokens of cultural identity that can be transposed and manipulated according to the needs of a
 certain socio-economic milieu at a certain moment and at a certain place. …”
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The war veteran in Jean-Pierre Guingané’s drama: between social activism and intellectualism by Amadou Bissiri

“…It focuses on Jean Pierre Guingané, a Burkinabè playwright and theatre director, and argues that he has used the war veteran in two chief directions following his classification of drama in two categories: development (or social action) drama and intellectual drama. …”
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A facilidade do apagamento da história: ‘Orra’, a rasura da voz feminina e a tragédia na loucura by Vanessa Cianconi

“…This article questions the fact that the play Orra: A Tragedy treads a path opposite to what the playwright defended in her theory of the tragedy. When Orra, Baillie’s independent and strong woman, goes mad at the end of the play, she turns herself into the standard 19th century weak woman and the oblivion, in its turn, is a double oblivion: the playwright’s memory in history and her female character.…”
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Expressionism in the 'Midnight' by Josip Kulundžić by Trojan Ivan, Vuco Jurica

“…The aim of this paper is to get an insight into a part of Josip Kulundžić's expressionist drama through the analysis of the play Midnight and the playwright's attitude towards drama and dramatic and theatrical theories of the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. …”
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Scavare nella polvere. Dialogo tra uomo e donna di Saverio La Ruina by Angela Albanese

“…The newest work of playwright, actor and stage director Saverio La Ruina, Polvere. …”
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Ex-centric Didactic Drama: Owen McCafferty’s <em>Mojo Mickybo</em> by Virginie Privas-Bréauté

“…This play borrows many techniques from Brechtian epic drama that the playwright transposes to a new context. In the written version of the play, this neo-Brechtian use of dramatic devices is also conveyed through the absence of some typographical elements which particularly stands out in the dialogues. …”
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The Complex Nature of Power and Language: Verbal Strategies in Martin Crimp’s The City by Dilek İnan, Ayşe Didem Yakut

“…The purpose of the paper is to examine the dynamic relationships between language and power in The City (2008), which was written by the groundbreaking playwright Martin Crimp. In a systematic and intentional way, Crimp’s language resists the established conventional standards and challenges any typical expectations for dramatic discourse. …”
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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. …”
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No Cultural Icon, Just a Man: Representing Shakespeare in Kenneth Branagh’s Biopic "All Is True" (2018) by Ana-Maria Iftimie

“…The film, however, reasserts the Renaissance dramatist’s position as the greatest poet and playwright by interrogating some of the most persistent theories on his biography and authorship. …”
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Laughing Out Young: Laughter in Evan Placey’s Girls Like That and Other Plays for Teenagers (2016) by Claire Hélie

“…Evan Placey, an Anglo-Canadian playwright, writes for teenagers. In spite (or because) of the serious and painful themes he tackles in his plays (coming out in Banana Boys, social determinism in Holloway Jones, bullying in Girls Like That, gender reassignment in Pronoun), the characters laugh, and so do the audience. …”
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The Cuban Rafter Crisis on Stage: Humanizing the Experience of Refugees in María Irene Fornés’ Manual for a Desperate Crossing by Crespán Araceli González

“…The Cuban-born playwright María Irene Fornés (1930-2018) repeatedly dealt with migration in several plays throughout her long career in theater, sometimes presenting characters who were immigrants living in New York (Sarita) or resorting to correspondence between distant relatives separated in different countries (La Viuda, Letters from Cuba). …”
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Bernard Shaw's Ibsenisms by Ortiz, Javier

“…The article emphasizes not only the evolution in Shaw's Ibsen criticism, but also the parallelism of that evolution with the confirmation of Shaw himself as a world renown playwright. In The Quintessence Shaw discusses Ibsen's plays superficially, since he himself was in the process of becoming a playwright of the sort of Ibsen. …”
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Eugene O’Neill’s Romanian Memory Revisited through Petru Comarnescu’s Diary and Corespondence by Adriana Carolina Bulz

“…I will look closely at samples of intellectual affinity between the artistic vision of American playwright Eugene O’Neill and the viewpoints expressed by his Romanian critical supporter Petru Comarnescu. …”
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The God-Haunted Atheist and the Posh Boy: Christopher Marlowe in Will and Upstart Crow by Michael D Friedman

“…Pearce’s depiction of Marlowe as a brilliant but tortured, blaspheming homosexual corresponds very closely with what Lucas Erne calls the “mythographic image” of the playwright cultivated by Marlowe scholars and biographers. …”
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Pinteresque Dialogue by Jadwiga Uchman

“…The aim of this article is to analyze some of the specific aspects of the playwright’s use of language. On several occasions, the artist made comments pertaining to certain issues concerning communication. …”
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«Nowy Donkiszot» albo Pornografia nowoczesności: O zapomnianym dramacie Jerzego Żuławskiego by Michał Dudek

“…On the formal level, the text may well be Żuławski’s boldest experiment as a playwright; it can be situated in the vicinity of Stanisław Wyspiański’s and Tadeusz Miciński’s theatre projects. …”
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Bilingualism of A. Pudin’s Dramaturgy by Yury G. Antonov, Julija V. Kabanova

“…The article deals with the artistic originality of bilingualism of one of the leading modern Mordovian playwrights Alexander Pudin. The most productive types of it in the work of the playwright are defined, and the reasons for the use of two languages in the writing process are identified. …”
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