Gertrude Stein’s “Historic Drama” (1930) by Emeline Jouve

“…This paper is an analysis of Gertrude Stein’s staging of the dialectic between the past and the present in her 1930 “Historic drama” trilogy published in Last Operas and Plays. …”
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The Poetics of Second Liberation by Vincent R. Ogoti

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Tout est faux. Henry VIII de Shakespeare et Fletcher ou comment on falsifie l’histoire by Anne Teulade

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Analysis of Sadegh Hedayat's Ideological Strategies in Producing a Discourse of Iranian Superiority Based on Teun Van Dijk's theory (Case Study: Historical drama "Parvin, Sasan’s daughter ") by Ailin Firoozian Pouresfahani, Reza Ghanbari Abdolmaleki

“…The present article, with the aim of measuring the effectiveness of the ideological square in the analysis of dramatic texts, examines racial nationalism in the discourse of the historical drama "Parvin, Sasan’s daughter". This research has a descriptive-analytical approach and shows how the ideology of nationalism is reflected in Hedayat's discourse using Van Dijk's discourse strategies. …”
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Avant-propos : Représenter l’histoire immédiate sur les scènes britanniques modernes et post-modernes by Élisabeth Angel-Perez, Line Cottegnies, Virginie Yvernault

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Philip Massinger et le théâtre historique : trouver la bonne distance by Gilles Bertheau

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Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997) by Claire Dutriaux

“…Almost twenty years before Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, African American film director John Singleton’s Rosewood (1997) told the violent racial history of the South during the Jim Crow era and the real suffering they experienced at the hands of Whites, via a combination of a western-style narrative with a black cowboy hero and a historical drama. This article explores the interplay between South and West and examines how Rosewood borrows from the Western genre to explore and rewrite racial history in the American South. …”
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Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis by Olayinka Agbetuyi

“…As defined in the words of Chris Barker, “Culturalism focuses on meaning production by human actors in a historical context.”1 Fálétí’s historical drama and films fall within such category. Barker added that Culturalism focuses on interpretation as a way of understanding meaning.”2 These are the hallmarks of the historical drama that formed the basis of two of the films by Fálétí being examined here. …”
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Non-Fiction from a Historical Perspective: Situation of Lithuanian Statemen Amid Tragic Events of 1940–1941 by Юрате Ландсберґіте-Бехер

“… Non-fiction literature has become the crucial historical drama of the present, with its power to change the fate of the state and its interpretations. …”
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