CONTEXTS AND CONDITION IN 20TH CENTURY (AFTER 1945) AND DRAMA AFTER 1945

1. GROUP 11 Group Member: Angelina Muhammad Haryando Suci Hanifah Nanda Ramadani Siti Sarah

2. CONTEXTS AND CONDITION IN 20 TH CENTURY (AFTER 1945) DRAMA AFTER 1945 TODAY’S LESSON

3. CONTEXT AND CONDITION IN 20 TH 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. SPECIAL CHARACTERISTIC…!

8. THEME Identity is a common theme : Sexual identity Local identity National identity Racial identity Spiritual identity Intellectual identity All of these, and more, recur.

9. The end of the 19 th and beginning of the 20 th century is quite a weak period. The most important authors started to appear mostly after the Second World War. 20 TH CENTURY DRAMA

10. BRITISH DRAMA

11. 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)

12. 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

13. 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)

14. Look Back in Anger On May 8, 1956, Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court Theatre as the third production of the newly formed English Stage Company.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. AMERICAN DRAMA

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. Arthur Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) He was born in New York. Regarded as one of the major playwrights of the 20 th century. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Prince of Asturias Award, and was married to Marilyn Monroe.

21. 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.

22. 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).

23. 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.

24. references (The Article of First world war : 2009) ( encyclopedia farlex : 2012) ( wikipedia ) ( e-notes ) ( infoplease )