Rasha Abdulmunem Azeez

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at University of Baghdad/ College of Languages

The plays of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) reflect the anxiety, alienation, and absurdity that man feels in this age. His world is emptied of feelings, liveliness, and natural beauty. His characters are toiled with a sense of loss and uncertainty. A wasteland is a good description of the world of his plays. This paper focuses on the intellectual waste...

This research paper tackles female economic independence during the war in Paula Vogel's Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief (1979). This play is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello(1603); the major difference is the focus on the female characters. Desdemona, being a housewife, thrives to achieve her economic independence through her own body...

is a (1980) Translations. 2015)-was an Irish dramatist and short story writer (1929 Brian Friel three-act play. The play is mainly about language, but it also treats many issues related to language such as communication, culture, and identity. Friel discusses in this play the complexities of being loyal to Irish language under the English expeditio...

This research investigates female economic independence throughout the war in Brecht's play Mother Courage and her Children (1941). Mother Courage is a single mother alongside her three children making sacrifices and hustling to provide for herself and her children not being dependent on a male to live but only on her personal wagon. The methods us...

She Stoops to Conquer was first produced for Covert Garden in London at 1773, and it was a great, immediate success. The Londoner Marlow comes to propose to Kate, a daughter of Mr. Hardcastle who is a rich countryman. Marlowe and his friend Hastings follow the macaroni fashion that Goldsmith criticizes in this play. He was making a point in this pl...

This paper discusses selected plays by Arthur Miller and David Mamet. The focus is on the American business ethics and capitalism and its relation to the American Dream. The article does not aim to draw any comparison among the plays. The paper shows various representatives of business men or the capital system. Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949)...

The inner wasteland can be observed in Samuel Beckett’s early and later plays. His characters suffer from loss of identity, emotions, and sense of time. They lead a life of failure, repetition, inaction, loneliness, doubt, suffering, and nothingness. The inner wasteland includes many aspects, such as the multi and split identity, the habitual repet...

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Abstract The inner wasteland can be observed in Samuel Beckett's early and later plays. His characters suffer from loss of identity, emotions, and sense of time. They lead a life of failure, repetition, inaction, loneliness, doubt, suffering, and nothingness. The...

William Timothy O'Brien (1946-) is an American novelist. His concern in his writings is wartime and the lives of veterans after wars, inspired by his personal experience in the Vietnam War. The main argument of this paper is to analyze the many ways of narration used by the writer in his novel In the Lake of the Woods (1994). The narrator attempts...

Li’l Bit is the main character of Paula Vogel’s play How I Learned to Drive (1997). The audience witnesses in this play the formation of the female identity mainly in sexual terms. In other words, Li’l Bit forms her identity as a female through her growing body since the age of eleven. Her family mocks her growing body. There are sexual taunts made...

This play is written in 1932 by Lynn Riggs who is half Cherokee. The play is set in Claremore Mound, Oklahoma almost a century after the Trail of Tears. Riggs presents mixed-blood, young Cherokees to portray a post-colonial state of spiritual loss and disruption of traditional community ties. The new generation lives in darkness, and the title of t...

“I’m no psychiatrist, but if you ask me, politicians in general are pretty insecure people” (O’Brien, 1994, p. 97). This quotation describes politicians as insecure people, and the word “insecure” has more than one implication. It may mean that politicians are insecure to themselves or to people around them. It can also mean that politicians’ actio...

Don Juan figure has appeared in different literary works. This playful figure first appears in Tirso de Molina’s play El Burlador de Sevilla or The Trickster of Sevilla (1630). This play is the earliest complete surviving play on the subject of Don Juan, and it is the source of all subsequent works devoted to Don Juan directly or indirectly. The di...

Somerset Maugham is known mainly as a novelist . This paper presents Maugham the dramatist . Many critics have found him a promising dramatist . He has written 30 plays , then he turns his back upon the theater and writes his autobiographical and most successful novel Of Human Bondage ( 1915) . Maugham's writing is clear , precise , and simple . He...

Harold Pinter was born in 1930 in London . He is an absurdist and his surname has been turned into an adjective " Pinteresque" that describes the situations fraught with ambiguity and menace which characterize his plays . His characters always appear inside a room fearing the outside which mostly attacks them and change their lives . The present re...

The American writer Edward Albee has written his first play The Zoo Story in 1958. It is a one-act play based on the conversation between two characters only , Peter and Jerry . It is one of the famous and influential plays . The writer decides after 49 years , specifically in 2004 , to write act one of the play entitled " Home life " and the origi...

This paper focuses on the role of two minor characters , the maids , in two of Shakespeare's works : Twelfth Night and Othello . It shows how they influence the whole action of both plays . The paper is divided into an introduction, two sections, and a conclusion . The introduction provides a brief explanation of the effective role of the maids i...

The Moon Is Down is a play and a novel carrying the same title and it is written by the same writer, John Steinbeck. They hold differences and of course similarities. Two different literary genres, a play and a novel normally make the reader live the same story but in different atmospheres. The play and the novel are two different worlds because ea...