Group 11's lesson focuses on drama in the 20th century after 1945. Some key developments include: 1) The world wars had a major impact on culture and society, including the mixing of cultures and rise of new ideologies. 2) Major British playwrights after WWII include George Bernard Shaw, John Osborne, and Samuel Beckett. Their works often examined themes of identity and the human condition. 3) Important American playwrights were Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. O'Neill helped innovate drama with works like The Emperor Jones. Miller's Death of a Salesman and Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire both won Pulitzer Prizes.

1. GROUP 11
Group Member:
Angelina
Muhammad Haryando
Suci Hanifah
Nanda Ramadani
Siti Sarah

2. TODAY’S LESSON
CONTEXTS AND
CONDITION IN 20TH
CENTURY (AFTER 1945)
DRAMA AFTER 1945

3. CONTEXT AND CONDITION IN 20TH CENTURY
WORLD WAR I
1916
Happened in 1916, The two sides of the war consisted of the
Allied Powers (France, Great Britain, Russia, the United States, and
other smaller countries) and the Central Powers (Germany, AustriaHungary,
and Turkey/Ottoman Empire, along with other smaller
country support).

4. •
1945
World War 2
The second world war was
a period of searching the
dominant economic and
cultural force in the world. A
position
which
was
strengthened by the fall of
Communist regimes in the
late 1980s and early 1990s

5. During the World War
•
The 20th century was a period of great artistic change, and it is
dominated by the impact of World War.
•
Several impact of this world war :

Culture mixture
Competition
New
in technology
popular ideology in society (such as : nationality, imperialist

6. Literature After the Second World War

The changes in society in ways of though and in Literature were every
bit as deep and far reaching as they were after the First World War

The mix of realism, romance, fable , satire, parody, play with form and
philosophical intelligence.

The richness time of English writing

7. •SPECIAL CHARACTERISTIC…!
The subject is the human condition.
There are no more heroes.
There is the individual; solitary, responsible for
destiny, yet powerless when set against the
ineluctable forces of the universe.

8. THEME
Identity is a common theme :
•Sexual identity
•Local identity
•National identity
•Racial identity
•Spiritual identity
•Intellectual identity
All of these, and more, recur.

9. 20TH CENTURY DRAMA
The end of the 19th and beginning
of the 20th century is quite a weak
period. The most important authors
started to appear mostly after the
Second World War.

10. BRITISH
DRAMA

11. George Bernard Shaw
(26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)
He was born in Dublin,
but spent most of his life in
London. his main talent was
for drama, and he wrote
more than 60 plays.

12. Mrs. Waren’s Profession
When Shaw completed
Mrs. Warren‟s Profession in
1893, it was censored for
eight years. When it was
finally
produced
on
London stage in 1902
the

13. John Osborne
(12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994)
John James Osborne was born
in December 12, 1929. He was an
English playwright, screenwriter actor
and critic of the Establishment. The
success of his 1956 play „Look Back in
Anger‟ transformed English theatre. It
made this author famous as a first
“angry young man”.

14. Look Back in Anger
On May 8, 1956, Look
Back in Anger opened at
the Royal Court Theatre as
the third production of the
newly formed English Stage
Company.

15. Samuel Beckett
(13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989)
He was an Irish novelist,
playwright,
theatre
director,
and poet, who lived in France
for most of his adult life and
wrote
in
both
English
and
French. He received a Nobel
Prize in 1969.

16. Waiting for Godot
Initially written in French
in 1948 as En Attendant Godot.
Later translated into English by
Beckett himself as Waiting for
Godot, the play was produced in
London in 1955 and in the United
States
in
1956
and
produced worldwide.
has
been

17. AMERICAN
DRAMA

18. Eugene O’Neill
(October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953)
He was born in New York.
He is a worldwide known innovator
of drama. He was an American
playwright and Nobel laureate in
Literature. Altogether he wrote 35
plays and awarded the 1936 Nobel
Prize for Literature.

19. THE EMPEROR JONES
The
Emperor
Jones
was so successful in its OffBroadway
production
in
November that it moved to
Broadway by the end of 1920
and became another high
profile success for the newly
acclaimed playwright.

20. Arthur Miller
(October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005)
He was born in New York.
Regarded as one of the major
playwrights of the 20th century.
He received the Pulitzer Prize
for Drama and the Prince of
Asturias Award, and was married
to Marilyn Monroe.

21. Death of a Salesman
The
play
performances
ran
on
for
745
Broadway,
winning both the Tony Award
and the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
The
work
garnered
numerous
honors and awards, including the
Pulitzer Prize and the New York
Drama Critics Circle Award.

22. Tennessee Williams
(March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983)
He was an American writer
who
worked
playwright
in
principally
the
as
a
American
theater. Williams received a Tony
Award for best play for The Rose
Tattoo (1951) and the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama for A Streetcar
Named Desire (1948) and Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof (1955).

23. A Streetcar Named Desire
A
Streetcar
Named
Desire was staged in the
United
States
in
1947
in
Boston and New York. A film
version
appeared
in
1951, directed by Elia Kazan.
The play, first published in
book form in 1947.

24. references
(The Article of First world war : 2009)
( encyclopedia farlex : 2012)
( wikipedia )
( e-notes )
( infoplease )