The shock inflicted by 2 world wars, and the development of science. Most productions have been realistic in content and setting, with the result that more emphasis is placed on subject matter related to life, and less in plot and structure. This modern period has...
The Industrial Revolution begins in England, though the Continent will experience it some decades later. Urbanization intensifies-along with urban poverty and class dissatisfaction. In the 1830's, Thomas Carlyle will write that "the Cash Nexus" has already replaced...
The present unit, Unit 51, aims to provide an account of two Irish dramatists, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Since they produced their works in two different Victorian periods, we shall deal with how they reflected the prevailing ideologies of the day in...