This essay would like to present the work of the world famous playwright from Argentina Eduardo Pavlovsky. He is studied and apriciate all over the world, but unfortunately in Czech Republic is totaly unknown. This work presents three dramatic plays, which represents different period in Pavlovsky plawright life and shows his artistic orientation. We can see there sorne external influence which work upon his work in several periods. Sub-title of this essay is just for illustrate and define the beginning and termination of the work of Pavlovsky. It cannot signify comparision not even other similarity what cauld be between this genres. At the beginnig I presented short historical discursion of Argentina. I focused me on the same period in which his dramatic work has been written. Then I spoke a bit about the history of theatre in Argetina and situation in culture at all. In the part which is called like sub-title af my essay, I facused me on general characteristic of the theatre of absurd and I tried to make sorne parallel between European and Argentine absurd drama. Then I wrote sorne srnall part where I tried to intorduce what psychodrarna is and for what is been use. I also included biography of Eduardo Pavlovsky, which is really short but there are all the irnportant situation in his life which could...

The goal of the master thesis "National identity in contemporary Czech theatre plays" is to analyse some chosen features of the contemporary Czech national identity based on examples from texts written by David Drábek and Miroslav Bambušek. In the first part, some basic categories are interpreted, that create the Czech identity, from the historical and sociological point of view. The chosen features of the Czech identity are analysed in the second part with regard to the theatre plays by two authors mentioned above. A summary of these features follows, as well as a characteristics of the tools both authors use to interpret topics related to this master thesis.

Orientador: Maria Lúcia Pinheiro Sampaio / Banca: Ingrid Ani Assmann de Freitas / Banca: Afonso de Castro / Banca: Alamir Aquino Corrêa / Banca: Lúcio Flávio de Carvalho / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta um estudo comparativo entre Antígona (442 a.C.) de Sófocles e as peças O Pagador de Promessas (1960), O Santo Inquérito (1966) e As Primícias (1977), do dramaturgo contemporâneo Dias Gomes, a fim de observar a presença e a transformação do gênero trágico no teatro contemporâneo. As peças, observadas pelo perfil das personagens protagonistas, podem ser lidas a partir de uma tipologia do herói trágico, na medida em que apresentam uma forte tonalidade trágica na construção das personagens e na sua estrutura interna travando um diálogo intertextual com a tragédia antiga. A literatura comparada é a teoria que estabeleceu o caminho inspirador deste trabalho e, dado o seu caráter dialógico, determinou as partes e seqüências do mesmo. Sob o enfoque da literatura comparada observa-se que a dramaturgia de Dias Gomes, especialmente as peças aqui analisadas, apresentam traços de construção da personagem trágica que ora se aproximam, ora se distanciam de Antígona de Sófocles. A presente tese está estruturada em cinco capítulos: a primeira parte apresenta a fundamentação teórica, partindo de uma exposição panorâmica sobre a literatura comparada, método comparativo, histórico e evolução da concepção do método e da disciplina; material que subsidiará a análise das peças que constituem o objeto de estudo aqui apresentado. Na seqüência, a segunda parte faz um estudo sobre a sociedade grega e o teatro trágico, na tentativa de se compreender o processo criativo, as relações temáticas, a estrutura do gênero e a formação do herói trágico, para então, na terceira parte, apresentar... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This is a comparative study between Sophocles' Antigone (442 B.C.) and the plays O Pagador de Promessas (1960), O Santo Inquérito (1966) and As Primícias (1977) by the contemporary playwright Dias Gomes in order to look at the presence and the transformation of the tragic genre in the contemporary theater. The plays, taking into account the profile of the protagonists, can be read from a tragic hero typology, since they present a strong tragic tone in the construction of the characters and in their internal structure, establishing an intertextual dialogue with the ancient tragedy. Comparative Literature is the theory that indicated the inspiring path of this work and, given its dialogic essence, determined its parts and sequence. From a comparative stance, Dias Gomes's dramatic craft, particularly the plays analyzed here, presents traces of the construction of the tragic character, which at times resemble and at times differ from Sophocles' Antigone. This dissertation is structured in five chapters: the first part presents the theoretical foundation, starting with an overview of Comparative Literature, the comparative method, history and development of the method and the discipline, all of which will give support to the analysis of the plays focused here. The second part is a study of the Greek society and the tragic theater, in an attempt to understand the creative process, the thematic relations, the structure of the genre and the formation of the tragic hero so as to present, in the third part, a contextualizing study about Sophocles and the tragedy Antigone. Antigone was interpreted based on the meanings that characterize the tragic dimension... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below) / Doutor

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Cette thèse de doctorat en études théâtrales propose d’étudier les modèles et pratiques d’écriture du personnage dans les écritures théâtrales québécoises des années 2000, et, à partir de cette analyse à la fois dramaturgique (études de pièces et définition d’une typologie des personnages) et génétique (entrée dans la fabrique de plusieurs auteurs pour comprendre comment ils créent leurs personnages), de définir la ou les figures de l’auteur dramatique dans ce contexte de création. La dramaturgie québécoise présente des survivances du personnage, quand d’autres ne cessent de le remettre en question. Mais loin de perpétuer un réalisme psychologique américain, les auteurs québécois des années 2000 mettent en scène des êtres profondément déterritorialisés dont la profondeur psychologique disparaît au profit d’une profondeur intertextuelle ou métathéâtrale. Ces personnages-créatures invitent à entrer dans la fabrique des auteurs pour interroger le partage des voix qu’ils opèrent afin de détourner un réalisme encore majoritaire dans les dramaturgies d’Amérique du Nord. À partir des pôles d’écriture du personnage que sont la langue, le corps, l’intertexte et la scène, la thèse analyse les pratiques d’écriture de plusieurs auteurs issus de générations et de formations différentes : Normand Chaurette, Daniel Danis, François Godin, Étienne Lepage et Larry Tremblay. Ces auteurs, qui doivent négocier sans cesse avec une altérité, qu’elle soit réelle (le contexte de production québécois invite les auteurs à échanger avec les autres actants du processus théâtral) ou fictive (les auteurs sont profondément habités par des autres qui parlent à travers eux), se trouvent démultipliés dans le processus d’écriture. Il semble alors que, face à cette démultiplication et à la difficulté de plus en plus grande pour l’auteur de faire entendre sa voix, les auteurs québécois choisissent le chemin de l’autopoïétique et exploitent dans leurs dernières créations leur moi d’auteur comme un matériau et comme un hyperpersonnage surplombant la fiction. C’est alors une voix de l’écriture unifiée, toujours aux limites de l’autofiction et de l’autobiographie, qui habite des dramaturgies qui ne seraient plus capables de faire advenir l’autre, un personnage entièrement détaché de la voix de son créateur. / The purpose of this doctoral thesis in drama studies is to investigate the models and practices in character writing in Quebecois drama in the years 2000, and from this investigation, which will have both a theatrical approach – through the study of plays and the elaboration of a typology of characters – and genetic – by entering into the authors’ factory to understand how they create their characters –, to identify the figure(s) of the playwright in this creative context. In Quebecois playwriting, characters still survive, while they are constantly questioned in other writing contexts. However, far from perpetuating realism as it prevails in American character writing, Quebecois authors in the years 2000 create deeply deterritorialized characters whose psychological depth disappears to make room for intertextual and metatheatrical profoundness. These creature-characters invite us into the authors’ factory to examine the sharing of voices they perform so as to circumvent North American drama’s still dominant realism. The four poles of character writing – language, body, intertext and stage – will then allow us to analyze the writing practices of several authors who belong to different generations and followed different trainings: Normand Chaurette, Daniel Danis, François Godin, Etienne Lepage and Larry Tremblay. These authors, who constantly have to deal with an otherness whether it is real – the production contexts in Quebec lead authors to interact with the other actors of drama’s creative process – or fictional – authors are deeply inhabited by others who speak through them –, find themselves demultiplied inside the writing process. It then seems that, when facing this demultiplication and the growing difficulty to make their voice heard, authors in Quebec are chosing the path of autopoiesis and using their “I” as authors in their latest creations as a material and as a supercharacter which dominates fiction. The act of writing then acquires a unified voice, constantly on the fringe of autofiction and autobiography, which inhabits plays that would may no longer be able to bring forth the other, a character which would be entirely separated from its creator’s voice.

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L’œuvre dramatique de Tom Stoppard est souvent considérée comme caractéristique du postmoderne. Les techniques d’écriture qui régissent le texte théâtral de Stoppard, étudiés dans cette thèse, participent à une véritable mise en scène de l’écriture. Ils sont aussi, selon nous, un moyen de détourner et parodier les codes du postmoderne. Collages, fragments et réécriture, caractéristiques de l’œuvre de Stoppard, traduisent aussi une vision patrimoniale de la littérature, et permettent une approche originale et critique du postmodernisme, renouvelant ainsi le discours sur le moderne. La présente étude se propose tout d’abord de montrer comment, à travers les références aux œuvres picturales de Magritte et Duchamp, Stoppard met en scène le signe. Puis, elle cherche à mettre en évidence la manière dont Stoppard utilise le collage et l’emprunt musical pour construire et structurer certaines de ses pièces. Elle envisage enfin le collage comme l’expression d’une herméneutique littéraire et philosophique, en examinant notamment l’influence de l’écriture de James Joyce sur le processus scripturaire du dramaturge. Le théâtre, seule forme d’expression artistique qui peut emprunter à tous les autres arts (Beaux-Arts, musique et littérature), est le lieu idéal où se déploient le foisonnement, la complexité et la richesse de l’écriture de Stoppard. Mais l’utilisation de citations et de fragments n’implique pas la fragmentation du sens : le théâtre de Stoppard, loin d’être l’expression d’une vision détachée du monde, propose aussi une véritable réflexion ontologique et politique sur notre société. / Tom Stoppard’s plays have often been viewed as the epitome of the postmodern. The writing techniques which inform Stoppard’s dramatic texts and which are studied in the present thesis play an essential part in the way in which the playwright stages his own writing process. This study also postulates that those techniques stand as a means of subverting and parodying the codes of the postmodern. The collages, fragments and rewriting which inform Stoppard’s works, reflect a patrimonial conception of literature and allow for an original approach and critique of postmodernism thus renewing the discourse on the modern. While considering the various references to the works of Magritte and Duchamp, the present study seeks to unveil the way in which Stoppard stages the sign. It will then shed light on the way in which Stoppard uses musical collages and quotations, which dot the playwright’s work, to shape and construct some of his plays. Finally, this dissertation will envisage collage as the expression of literary and philosophical hermeneutics as it examines James Joyce’s crucial influence on the playwright’s writing technique. Theatre stands probably as the only form of art which can borrow from all the other forms of art (painting, sculpture, music and literature). As such, it is the ideal locus for Stoppard’s subtle and complex writing techniques to proliferate. However, using quotations and fragments does not necessarily imply a fragmentation of meaning. Far from conveying a detached view of the world, Stoppard’s dramatic works provide the audience with an ontological and political thought-provoking view on our contemporary society.

The growing accessibility of quantum mechanics and chaos theory over the past eighty years has opened a new mode of world-creating for dramatists. An increasingly large collection of plays organize their fictional worlds around such scientific concepts as quantum uncertainty and chaotic determinism. This trend is especially noticeable within dramatic texts that emphasize a fictional, not material or metafictional, engagement. These plays construct fictional worlds that reflect the increasingly strange actual world. The dominant theoretical approaches to fictional worlds unfairly treat these plays as primarily metafictional texts, when these texts construct fictional experiences to speculate about everyday ramifications of living in a post-quantum mechanics world. This thesis argues that these texts are best understood as examples of speculative fiction drama, and they speculate about the changes to our understanding of reality implied by contemporary scientific discoveries. Looking at three plays as exemplary case studies—John Mighton’s Possible Worlds (1990), Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia (1993), and Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul (2001)—this thesis demonstrates that speculative fiction theories can be adapted into fictional worlds analysis, allowing us to analyze these plays as fiction-making texts that offer nonclassical aesthetic experiences. In doing so, this thesis contributes to speculative fiction studies, fictional worlds studies, and the dynamic interdisciplinary dialogue between aesthetic and scientific discourses.

Howard Barker fait ses armes de dramaturge en composant en 1971 une pochade sur Henry V de Shakespeare et signe trente ans plus tard l’un de ses textes les plus aboutis avec Gertrude – The Cry, variation sur le thème d’Hamlet. À la faveur de ces réécritures et de quelques autres (notamment Seven Lears en 1989), décrire le dramaturge contemporain comme le « Shakespeare de notre époque », expression attribuée à Sarah Kane, s’est rapidement imposé comme un lieu commun, relayé tant par la presse que par la critique. Pourtant, en dépit de certaines caractéristiques communes, leurs œuvres apparaissent d’abord comme radicalement différentes, ne serait-ce qu’en raison du statut marginal que Barker occupe au sein du paysage théâtral anglais. Dès lors, si Shakespeare se manifeste dans son œuvre, ce sera sous une forme altérée, méconnaissable, transformée, autrement dit sous forme de spectres. Pourquoi l’œuvre de Barker a-t-elle suscité de façon si insistante la comparaison à celle de Shakespeare ? Et que révèle cette comparaison, non seulement de la pratique critique, mais surtout des enjeux poétiques du théâtre de Barker ? Cette étude s’efforce de répondre à ces questions en examinant d’abord les modalités d’élaboration de l’œuvre de Barker, et la manière dont celle-ci place le spectre, figure majeure du doute, au cœur de son esthétique. Elle se penche ensuite sur les critères qui ont pu justifier le rapprochement entre les deux dramaturges, notamment l’histoire et l’écriture, pour montrer que Shakespeare est toujours convoqué sur le mode paradoxal du leurre, modèle avancé pour être mieux rejeté. De la sorte, elle essaie de dégager non pas les traits que partagent les deux dramaturges, mais la manière dont Barker tente d’exorciser la présence étouffante du dramaturge élisabéthain en élaborant une poétique singulière. / From his earliest efforts to his latest and most accomplished plays, Howard Barker has often confronted Shakespeare, be it with his irreverent parody of Henry V in Henry V in Two Parts (1971) or with his variations on Hamlet in Gertrude – The Cry (2002). These rewritings, along with some others (notably Seven Lears in 1989) have prompted many, both in the media and in academia, to call him, as Sarah Kane allegedly did, “the Shakespeare of our age”. In spite of a number of common features, their works do however appear as radically different, if only because of Barker’s marginal status within the landscape of contemporary English drama. If Shakespeare manifests himself in Barker’s work, it will therefore be in an altered and possibly unrecognizable form, in other words as a spectre. Why is it that Barker’s work has been so insistently compared to that of Shakespeare? What does this comparison reveal both about critical practice and about the aesthetics of Barker’s theatre? In order to answer these questions, this dissertation first examines the overall design of Barker’s work and the way in which it endeavours to place the figure of the ghost, as an embodiment of doubt, at its core. It then moves on to consider the criteria that have been invoked to draw a parallel between both playwrights, especially their focus on history and poetic writing as the basis of drama, to show how Shakespeare is always paradoxically summoned as a lure, an empty model that both suggests and contradicts modes of interpretation. In doing so, it strives to bring out not the traits shared by both playwrights but Barker’s effort to thwart the haunting and overwhelming presence of Shakespeare by giving birth to his own original voice.