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Turning Hamlet Inside out: Creating an Independent Drama in Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies
Purpose: This study examines Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead as a dramatic work that reinterprets Shakespeare’s Hamlet by shifting attention from the protagonist to a couple of minor characters.
Mirza Khurram Naseem Baig, Safia Siddiqui   +1 more
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The semantics of language in Eugène Ionesco’s plays

Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies
The goal of this paper is to present the characteristics of Eugène Ionesco’s dramatic texts, a reason why the genre of avant-garde and theatre of the absurd are also considered, with a view to revealing their major ways of functioning.
Cristina Nicolaescu
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Political Fictionality: Vladislav Surkov and the Rise of the Authorial State

The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 4, Page 495-512, October 2026.
Abstract This article introduces the concept of political fictionality as a theoretical framework for analyzing the convergence of literary authorship and political power in Russia during the Putin era, using Vladislav Surkov—a longtime presidential advisor and ideologue as well as fiction writer under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitskii—as its principal ...
Ekaterina Vassilieva
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The Theatre of the Absurd icon: Edward Albee’s Juxtaposition of Abstract Symbolism to Existential realism in Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolf? [PDF]

Akofena
: Among the diverse literary dramatic forms, the theatre of the absurd inhabits and characterizes the intellectual European literature since the fifteenth century, starting from Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Praise of Madness (1511).
Hassiba BOUKHATEM
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Enduring After God: An Anatheistic Reframing of Augustine on Suicide

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 529-542, September 2026.
Abstract This paper proposes a retrieval of Augustine's argument on suicide in De Civitate Dei I.17–27, rearticulating its ethical core for a post‐theistic age through the hermeneutic lens of Richard Kearney's anatheism. Confronting the dual reality of persistent suicide and declining religiosity, I argue that Augustine's pastoral case against ending ...
Kornelius Lumbanbatu
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The Irony of Liberation in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Journal of American Culture, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 155-163, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest vividly portrays the tragic consequences of repressive psychiatric authority. The film was—and remains—one of the most memorable and well‐known products of anti‐psychiatry sentiment. Opponents of American psychiatry from the time period of Cuckoo's Nest objected to what they saw as social control ...
Laura Hirshbein
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Re-reading Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros through an ecological lens: exploring the aesthetic forms of nature in the Theatre of the Absurd

Cogent Arts & Humanities
The present paper falls within the field of ecocriticism, which problematizes literary and artistic activity from the point of view of the relationship between the human being (human nature) and nature (non-human), as expressed by and in works of art ...
Jamila Chtioui, Younes Ez-Zouaine
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 589-608, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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Overcoming the non-performability/nonacceptability of some absurd elements: The feasibility of committing ST shifts in a French-Arabic and an English-Arabic translation of Samuel Barclay Beckett’s self-translated play “Waiting for Godot” (1952)/ “En Attendant Godot” (1948) [PDF]

Studia Translatorica
The initial norm of performability/acceptability is usually at the back of the minds of play translators. This study is specifically conducted on Samuel Barclay Beckett’s self-translated play, “Waiting for Godot”.
Hagar Soliman
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ANATOMY LESSONS: TRANS LIFE BETWEEN PORTRAITURE AND PERFORMANCE IN PAUL B. PRECIADO'S ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (2023)

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 419-436, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article considers how trans lives are mediated across literary, painterly and filmic registers in Paul B. Preciado's Orlando, My Political Biography (2023). My analysis draws on Andrew Webber's development of reading practices applied to intertextual works that also exhibit interpictorial and interfilmic dynamics in his reading of a scene
Lawrence Alexander
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