contexts and condition in 20th century (after 1945) and drama after 1945

GROUP 11

Group Member:

Angelina

Muhammad Haryando

Suci Hanifah

Nanda Ramadani

Siti Sarah

CONTEXTS AND CONDITION IN 20TH

CENTURY (AFTER 1945)

DRAMA AFTER 1945

TODAY’S LESSON

CONTEXT AND CONDITION IN 20TH CENTURY

WORLD WAR I

Happened in 1916, The two sides of the war consisted

of the Allied Powers (France, Great Britain, Russia, the United

States, and other smaller countries) and the Central Powers

(Germany, Austria-Hungary,  and Turkey/Ottoman Empire, along

with other smaller country support).

1916

The second world war was a period of searching the dominant economic and cultural force in the world. A position which was strengthened by the fall of Communist regimes in the late 1980s and early 1990s

World War 2• 1945

• The 20th century was a period of great artistic change, and it is dominated by the impact of World War.

• Several impact of this world war :

Culture mixture

Competition in technology

New popular ideology in society (such as : nationality,

imperialist

During the World War

The changes in society in ways of though and in Literature were every

bit as deep and far reaching as they were after the First World War

The mix of realism, romance, fable , satire, parody, play with form and

philosophical intelligence. The richness time of English writing

Literature After the Second World War

The subject is the human condition.

There are no more heroes.

There is the individual; solitary, responsible for destiny, yet powerless when set against the ineluctable forces of the universe.

•SPECIAL CHARACTERISTIC…!

THEME

Identity is a common theme :•Sexual identity•Local identity•National identity•Racial identity•Spiritual identity•Intellectual identity

All of these, and more, recur.

The end of the 19th and beginning

of the 20th century is quite a weak

period. The most important authors

started to appear mostly after the

Second World War.

20TH CENTURY DRAMA

BRITISH DRAMA

He was born in

Dublin, but spent most of

his life in London. his main

talent was for drama, and

he wrote more than 60

plays.

George Bernard Shaw

(26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)

When Shaw

completed Mrs. Warren’s

Profession in 1893, it was

censored for eight years.

When it was finally

produced on the London

stage in 1902

Mrs. Waren’s Profession

John James Osborne was born

in December 12, 1929. He was an

English playwright, screenwriter actor

and critic of the Establishment. The

success of his 1956 play ‘Look Back

in Anger’ transformed English

theatre. It made this author famous

as a first “angry young man”.

John Osborne

(12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994)

Look Back in AngerOn May 8, 1956,

Look Back in Anger

opened at the Royal Court

Theatre as the third

production of the newly

formed English Stage

Company.

Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989)

He was an Irish

novelist, playwright, theatre

director, and poet, who lived

in France for most of his adult

life and wrote in both English

and French. He received a

Nobel Prize in 1969.

Waiting for Godot

Initially written in French in

1948 as En Attendant Godot.

Later translated into English by

Beckett himself as Waiting for

Godot, the play was produced in

London in 1955 and in the

United States in 1956 and has

been produced worldwide.

AMERICAN DRAMA

Eugene O’Neill

(October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953)

He was born in New York.

He is a worldwide known innovator

of drama. He was an American

playwright and Nobel laureate in

Literature. Altogether he wrote 35

plays and awarded the 1936 Nobel

Prize for Literature.

THE EMPEROR JONES

The Emperor Jones

was so successful in its Off-

Broadway production in

November that it moved to

Broadway by the end of

1920 and became another

high profile success for the

newly acclaimed playwright.

Arthur Miller

(October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005)

He was born in New York.

Regarded as one of the major

playwrights of the 20th century.

He received the Pulitzer Prize

for Drama and the Prince of

Asturias Award, and was

married to Marilyn Monroe.

Death of a Salesman

The play ran for 745

performances on Broadway,

winning both the Tony Award

and the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

The work garnered numerous

honors and awards, including

the Pulitzer Prize and the New

York Drama Critics Circle Award.

Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983)

He was an American writer

who worked principally as a

playwright in the American theater.

Williams received a Tony Award for

best play for The Rose Tattoo

(1951) and the Pulitzer Prize for

Drama for A Streetcar Named

Desire (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin

Roof (1955).

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named

Desire was staged in the

United States in 1947 in

Boston and New York. A film

version appeared in 1951,

directed by Elia Kazan. The

play, first published in book

form in 1947.

references

(The Article of First world war : 2009)

( encyclopedia farlex : 2012)

( wikipedia )

( e-notes )

( infoplease )