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Comparing Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee Turku, Marsela; Gokaj, Rregjina
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 7 (2012): Special Issue
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Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, who emerged as playwrights in the post-war world, after the 1945, brought AmericanDrama to prominence and dominated the American theatre for nearly a decade and a half. Both began their careers as politicalplaywrights by responding to the economic and social realities of the age. After the 1950 another major figure appeared and provokedradical experimentation by combining aesthetic innovation with political revolt. His name was Edward Albee. All these figures played anenormous role in the process of transformation and innovation in the American theatre. The three of them with their talents, theiraesthetic experimentation and political beliefs made the American theatre a ‘fascinating phenomenon.’ Although they are a product ofthe same nation, including political and cultural background, they are still very different in the way they present to the public the socialdrama, the transformation of the American dream, the character they choose to present their anxieties and the background theyemphasize; thus their means of connecting fact and fiction, language and image, reality and drama are different. Therefore, this paperaims to present an overview of the differences and similarities of their styles, language, the nature of their characters, their theatricalperformance, the innovation that each of them brought into the American theatre.
Henrik Ibsen. Drammatis Personae Between Reality and Fiction Gokaj, Rregjina; Turku, Marsela
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 8 (2012): Special Issue
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Literature is a powerful way of transmitting ideas and attitudes thus intercultural communication comes through authors’ ideasand readers’ assumptions. This article will be focussed in some major dramas of Henrik Ibsen, as one of the most powerfulrepresentatives of European drama of the late nineteenth century. His contribution to the modern thought is, without doubt, vital andprecious especially in Pillars of Society, A Doll’s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler etc. This article is going to browse some of Ibsen’s playsconsidering the usage he makes of symbols and symbolism, reality and realism. ‘A Doll’s House’ is considered a landmark in thedevelopment of what soon became a highly prevalent genre of theatre – realism, which strives to portray life accurately and shunsidealized visions of it. Thus Ibsen presents us to Nora and Helmer who are the antitypes of Mr. and Mrs. Alving of ‘Ghosts’. If weconsider ‘Ghosts’, which followed ‘A Doll’s House’ not only consequently but even in the realistic and innovative mode of writing, the ideaof marriage is quite a useless sacrifice of human beings who do not have the same interests or principles in life. Some of these featuresmay also be seen in The Lady from the Sea with Ellida and Wangel and their relationship. These aspects and others of Henrik Ibsen’splays will be the focus of this paper, showing the playwright’s contribution to World Literature.