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Introducing Huzir Sulaiman: a Malaysian playwright by Quayum, Mohammad Abdul

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Ecological crises of the capitalocene: a study on Colleen Murphy’s the breathing hole by Pal, Supthita, Pannikot, Dhishna

“…The findings of the paper demonstrate how the playwright approaches contemporary eco-crisis using indigenous ecodrama.…”
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Manipulation of extrinsic and intrinsic language styles in the scripts Menunggu Lampu Hijau and My Honey by Othman, Shamsudin, Abdullah, Nur Afifah Vanitha

“…In the history of modern Malay drama, Hatta Azad Khan is the first playwright to have written, directed and staged ‘adult content’ plays in Malaysia. …”
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Language, identity, and translation in J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World by Chang, Hawk

“…John Millington Synge’s play The Playboy of the Western World features the playwright’s adoption of Hiberno-English, a mixture of English and Irish, to highlight a peculiar Irish identity. …”
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Complex truth from simple beauty: Oscar Wilde’s philosophy of art by Lynch, Liam Joseph

“…In this thesis I analyse a selection of the works of playwright, poet, novelist and essayist, Oscar Wilde, with the purpose of interpreting his philosophy of art. …”
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'Judgemental category' is the major concept in ntozake shange's “For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” by Alsanafi, Ismael Hasan, Mohd Noor, Siti Noor Fazelah, Abdul Kadir, Zulida

“…The analysing process has presented that the playwright had utilized many linguistic resources; „Judgement‟. …”
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D.H. Lawrence, Rananim and Gilbert Cannan’s Windmills by Harrison, Andrew

“…This essay offers a detailed and revisionary reassessment of the contexts of the Rananim fantasy, drawing on little-known evidence and a previously overlooked textual source to suggest that the largely forgotten playwright, author and critic Gilbert Cannan shared Lawrence’s anti-war views in this period and actively participated in the formulation of Rananim and the associated plan to inhabit an island in the South Seas.…”
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Three fat virgins unassembled by Zahim Albakri, Leow, Puay Tin *, Yu, Ovidia, Tey, Cindy *, Foo, Helena *, Teh, Joylynn *, Nurul Ain Mohammed Jamlus

“…Singaporean playwright Ovidia Yu's much-loved satire centres on a group of women trying to free themselves from the "fat virgin" syndrome, that is, society's expectations of them as career woman, daughter, girlfriend, wife and mother. …”
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Female silence in K.S. Maniam’s play the sandpit: a monologue by Wan Roselezam bt. Wan Yahya

“…The isolation of Santha from the beginning to the end of her monologue is, of course, in keeping with the traditional role and place of women in Indian society, which the playwright seems to view as the acceptable female condition in a patriarchal society. …”
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George Bernard Shaw and the Malvern Festival by Ananisarab, Soudabeh

“…The Festival was initially dedicated to the works of George Bernard Shaw with the repertoire of the first season wholly composed of the plays of this playwright. While during its twelve seasons the Festival fluctuated in the extent of its association with Shaw, in total the Festival presented two world premieres of Shaw’s plays and four British premieres. …”
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Female silence in K.S. Maniam's play The Sandpit: A Monologue by Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam

“…The isolation of Santha from the beginning to the end of her monologue is, of course, in keeping with the traditional role and place of women in Indian society, which the playwright seems to view as the acceptable female condition in a patriarchal society. …”
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Impossible Properties: Language And Legitimacy In Ong Keng Sen's Lear by Edwards, James

“…This paper explores a landmark production in the history of Asian intercultural theatre, Singaporean director Ong Keng Sen and Japanese playwright Kishida Rio's Lear (1997/1999). A lavish production underwritten by the Japan Foundation Asia Center, Lear helped establish Ong's "fiercely intercultural" aesthetic as an internationally recognisable brand (Peterson 2003: 81). …”
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Reinforcing the dominant discourse in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice by Behnam Mirzababazadeh Fomeshi

“…The play depicts him as a cruel, crafty and wicked Jew just as Elizabethan Christians would demand. The playwright takes the stereotype character presented to him and makes it more complex, but he leaves its anti-Semitic qualities untouched. …”
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Object Relation Psychoanalytic Criticism On Selected Works of Tennessee Williams by Shakouri, Shadi

“…Since the autobiographical style is dominant in Tennessee Williams’s works, this research probes into the Williams’s personal life in order to find out the relations between the playwright’s life and his works. It attempts to clarify and explicate the meaning and effect of Williams’s life experiences, using Melanie Klein’s and D.W. …”
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Journey to absolute happiness in dinsman’s absurd play it is not a suicide by Mas Rynna Wati Ahmad

“…Since then, absurd theatre style has become prominent among young playwrights during the period of Experimental Theatre. …”
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Revitalizing identity in language: a Kristevan psychoanalysis of suddenly last summer by Hezaveh, Leila Rezaei, Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah, Md Salleh Yaapar

“…A psychoanalytic study of his famous drama Suddenly Last Summer (1958) will enable us to explore the qualities of unresolved psychological complexes in the characters and also in the author himself, as the play is believed to draw strongly upon the playwright‟s own biography. Towards this end, an intertextual interpretation serves to reflect upon the semiotic disposition of author and characters, which figures out a paradigm of the “transcendental ego” (Moi, 1986, p. 28). …”
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Discourse on Dinsman’s contributions to the development of modern Malay theatre by Mas Rynna Wati Ahmad

“…This paper will discuss on Dinsman, as a prominent experimental playwright during the upheaval period of The Experimental Theatre in Malaysia. …”
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The political plays of Arthur Miller and Kee Thuan Chye: Resisting the hegemonic state / David Tneh Cheng Eng by David, Tneh Cheng Eng

“…Their plays are most often a reflection of their country’s socio-political and socio-economic development and highlight the concerns of the playwright on issues pertaining to the individual, society, and nation. …”
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"Dusky powder magazines": the Creole revolt (1841) in nineteenth century American literature by Bernier, Celeste-Marie

“…Finally, the conclusion explores the mid-twentieth century version of this revolt, Madison (1956), a musical composed by the black playwright, Theodore Ward, to indicate the importance of this approach for re-evaluating intertextual relationships across black and white abolitionist authors, throughout the nineteenth century and after.…”
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Nineteenth-century Shakespeares: nationalism and moralism by Hollingsworth, Mark

“…The Introduction first notes Shakespeare's transition from Elizabethan playwright to Victorian cultural icon and proceeds to outline nineteenth-century critical practice and changes in the social organisation of knowledge. …”
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