Essay topics

1. Traditionalism vs Modernism: A. W. Pinero’s “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray”

2. Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and the well-made play.
3. G. B. Shaw: thesis drama and technique in “Man and Superman”
4. Shaw’s Pygmalion: from stage to screen
5. Harley Granville Barker’ Psychological Realism: The Marrying of Anne
Leete/The Voysey Inheritance/Waste/The Madras House
6. Naturalist Premises in J. Galsworthy’s “The Silver Box”
7. Updating the well-made play: Terrence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy
8. The “kitchen-sink” play: D.H.Lawrence’s The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd.
9. Arnold Wesker’s Roots: between “kitchen-sink” and didacticism
10. John Osborne’s Alienation: Look Back in Anger.