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 )