*5.T.S.Eliot 6.Christopher Fry 7.The working-class drama and Angry Young Man 8.Theater of Absurd and Samuel Beckett
❖ 5. T. S. Eliot ❖ 6. Christopher Fry ❖ 7. The working-class drama and Angry Young Man ❖ 8. Theater of Absurd and Samuel Beckett
The most celebrated dramatists in the last decade of the 19th century were Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw,who,in a sense,pioneered the modern drama, though they did not make so many innovations in techniques and forms as modernist poets or novelists
❖ The most celebrated dramatists in the last decade of the 19th century were Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, who, in a sense, pioneered the modern drama, though they did not make so many innovations in techniques and forms as modernist poets or novelists
1.Oscar Wilde Wilde expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper-class people by revealing their corruption,their snobbery, and their hypocrisy in his plays,especially in his masterpiece,The Importance of Being Earnest(1895)
❖ 1. Oscar Wilde ❖ Wilde expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper-class people by revealing their corruption, their snobbery, and their hypocrisy in his plays, especially in his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
2.George Bernard Shaw Shaw isis considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare whose works are examples of the plays inspired by social criticism
❖ 2. George Bernard Shaw ❖ Shaw is is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare whose works are examples of the plays inspired by social criticism
÷3.John Galsworthy John Galsworthy carried on this tradition of social criticism in his plays
❖ 3. John Galsworthy ❖ John Galsworthy carried on this tradition of social criticism in his plays