Pulitzer Prize for Drama

fifty-fifty survival rate of marriages. In the two plays, Trifles by Susan Glaspell, and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Both actors have a great background of literature, Glaspell an American Pulitzer Prize-winner, playwright, novelist, and Arthur Miller who also was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Withal plays can relate in ways to different gender conflicts, and the problems that takes place in everyday relationships. Men and women may face different demands of resolving these conflicts

of the contemporary female playwrights who makes use of dark comedy. She is an excellent example of the genre dark comedy in the late twentieth century. She has won critical acclaim, Pulitzer Prizes and numerous additional awards for her writing. Wendy Wasserstein was the first woman in history to win the Pulitzer Prize as the author of an original play. In a 2001 Harper article on a new generation of women playwrights, the first sentence reads "When you think of female playwrights, two words invariably

Taking a Deeper Look at The Piano Lesson by August Wilson Winner of multiple awards such as the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, August Wilson is known most for his forceful cultural plays. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wilson was born to a white father that later abandoned his family, and a black mother. Wilson dropped out of school in the ninth grade after being accused of plagiarism. Wilson after went to public libraries and read

Sisters Aloysius and James as Representatives of Social Duality The play “Doubt: A Parable” by John Patrick Shanley was first staged at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2004 and won the Pulitzer Prize the next year. In the play, the author touches upon a set of urgent social topics, such as pedophilia, abuse, faith, and moral considerations. Also, the author dwells upon a controversial image of a nun with the example of two main female characters of the play, Sister Aloysius, and Sister James: though

dropping you gently on the ground, moved and changed and unexpectedly uplifted by the journey.” Fences eventually developed into film, the rave reviews and success bringing the spotlight back to the engaging work of sentiments on stage. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Drama Fences, takes place during the 1950s, a time where men were prideful and the working class was striving for more. Wilson’s plot explores confinement within the Maxson Family, for Troy Maxson it’s being robbed of his dream by “White America

Sadly, we often choose to conform to what people and society tells us we should be (Maggie & Barrie Gunter n.p.)” Mending wall is a good example of the statement above. It shows that we all at times compelled to do what the society expects from us no matter what we feel about it. In some situations, having some strong foundation of self-love can prevent us from being victims of societal expectations of us thus decreasing the high levels of hypocrisy in the society. Living in the world today there

releases his fourth of ten plays The Piano Lesson, begins. August Wilson writes this play in order to find the legacy of the piano by using the connections of domestic drama to explore questions of personal and cultural inheritance (Elam 362). This play becomes the talk of the town, and in 1990 Wilson wins a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In August Wilson’s play, The Piano Lesson, the Reader Response Theory is apparent because the main action is not centered around music, but instead the play’s focus in

such a “Bus” which will reach in same place even after fifty years. So, ‘Bus’ symbolizes the lack of progress, sense of hopelessness in life. The Pulitzer Prize winning drama “Fences” by renowned African-American black Writer August Wilson also presents the symbols in his play. The symbols play vital role in play. It represents the theme of Drama. So, symbolic meaning is

The much admired play and subsequent film, Doubt, by John Patrick Stanley covers a subject that has become ideal material for compelling drama in recent years: Abuse of children at the hands of priests. Set at a Catholic school, St. Nicholas, in the Bronx in 1964, Doubt tells the story of a nun and principal who suspects a new young priest is sexually abusing the school’s first and only black student. Doubt first premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club on November 23, 2004 before moving to Broadway

Life and death belong together and cannot be separated. Life is inevitably followed by death, the “permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism” (Dictionary.com) which can be caused by accidents, radiation or the accumulation of damage to cells over the course of a lifetime. Since the beginning of time people have been fascinated by this unavoidable phenomenon. Different cultures deal with death differently. However, death has been a central topic in art, poetry, literature, theatre