THE present dramatic epoch in France is so remarkable in some of its aspects that it seems not a little strange that no attempt—at least no attempt in English — should have been made to characterize ...

IN an introductory lecture I gave last week at Harvard, I tried to clear the ground for laying the cornerstones of a National Anglo-American drama. I tried to justify the phrase ’ National ...

Stage dramas, first and foremost, are literature. Throughout history, truly moving works of drama have always ended up becoming literary classics. Compared to other literary forms, dramatic literature ...

If you find yourself trying to break down the key elements of a perfect play, you need look no further than the Greeks! Aristotle's analysis of drama in his work Poetics identifies six key elements ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Drama, vitally connected with other arts and disciplines, provides a fitting focus of study in a liberal arts education. Understanding this interconnectivity of drama with others fields, the ...

A poster for the documentary drama, Literature and Art in the War of Resistance, which will premiere on Oct 1 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts and will run until Oct 7.[Photo provided to ...