Prof. Dr. Rasha A. Azeez. A university teacher at the University of Baghdad, College of Languages, Department of English since 2001. The major is 20th century American drama. Obtained M.A. degree in 2001 from the University of Baghdad and Ph.D. degree from Georgia State University in 2018. Interested in adaptation and comparative studies. Doing research about modern and contemporary female American playwrights. Published many papers on modern British and American drama.
Ph. D. Degree in English Language
Professor in College of Languages
Iraqi Translators Association Member of F.I.T. since 1999 Golden Key International Honour Society 2017-present.
A special interest in adaptation and comparative studies. Research is about female American playwrights.
Modern and Postmodern Drama
Literary Criticim and Drama / undergraduate level Literary criticism and Darma/ postgraduate level
Fourth Year Students M.A. Students
رواية بوليسية نُشرت لأول مرة عام 1887، تدور أحداث الرواية في أواخر القرن التاسع عشر، عنوانها مشتق من حديث شيرلوك هولمز عندما وصف لصديقه الدكتور واتسون ان التحقيق في أي قضية قتل بأنه "دراسة في اللون القرمزي" (دويل، 1887، ص 53). قدم كونان دويل شخصية عادية تمتعت بقدرات تحليلية، وبوليسية غيرعادية لحل القضايا المعقدة، وتحدي الطرق التقليدية التي يستخدمها رجال الشرطة. كان هولمز يعمل محققًا استشاريًا، والذي
... Show Moreكان سام شيبارد (1943-2017) كاتباً مسرحياً أمريكياً مرموقاً اشتهر بتناوله للمواضيع العائلية. غالباً ما تتناول أعماله تعقيدات واضطرابات الحياة العائلية، مما جعله شخصية مهمة في المسرح الحديث. تعد مسرحية (الطفل المدفون) (1978) واحدة من أبرز أعماله، وقد فازت بجائزة بوليتزر للدراما في عام 1979. تميزت المسرحية بتصويرها القاتم والسريالي لقصص العائلة، مما ميزها عن الدراما الأسرية الواقعية التقليدية. يُعتبر تفكك الأسرة الم
... Show MoreThe inner wasteland can be observed in Samuel Beckett’s early and later plays. His characters suffer from loss of identity, emotions, and sense of time. They lead a life of failure, repetition, inaction, loneliness, doubt, suffering, and nothingness. The inner wasteland includes many aspects, such as the multi and split identity, the habitual repetitive element of life, the dark sorrowful life the characters lead, lack of communication and relations among them, their unfree, inactive condition, their foggy terrible recollections, loneliness, dryness of love, and uncertainty. The analysis and the illustration of each aspect will show how the inner wasteland is intensified in the selected later plays of Beckett.
Reading and analyzing Paula Vogel’s plays, the readers can attest that she achieves success in drama or theater because she is passionate about theater. Vogel is a modern American playwright who won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Her success and insight in playwriting or in adapting do not come all of a sudden; she is influenced by many writers. Vogel is influenced by many American dramatists, including Eugene O’ Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee, and by other non-American writers, including August Strindberg, Anton Chekhove, and Bertolt Brecht. Certainly, there were female playwrights who wrote preeminent plays and they influence Vogel as well. Nevertheless, dramas by female
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