Uzswlu master’s Department The Chair of Linguistics

UzSWLU Master’s Department
The Chair of Linguistics
and English literature

Variant 15.
1. Write about the development of American drama in the ХХ century.
During the XX century Important movements in drama took shape in the years before, during, and after World War I. After the World War some movements of American drama changed totally. The experiments and movements in drama had not been a major art form in the 19th, however in the early years of the 20th century, some Americans traveling around Europe encountered some features such as a vital, flourishing theatre; returning home, some of them became very active in founding the Little Theatre movement throughout the country. Freed from commercial limitations, playwrights experimented with dramatic forms and methods of production, and in time actors, producers and dramatists appeared who had been trained in community playhouses and college classrooms. Some Little Theatre groups became commercial producers, for instance, the Washington Square Players, founded in 1915, which became the Theatre Guild which is first production in 1919. The resulting drama was marked by a spirit of innovation and by a new maturity and seriousness. For example, Eugene O’Neill who is the most admired dramatist of this period, was a product of thismovement. He worked with the Provincetown Players before his plays were commercially produced. His dramas were unusual for their range. O'Neill was as generally praised, but many other dramatists wrote plays that reflected the growth of a serious and varied drama, including Maxwell Anderson, whose verse dramas have dated so badly, and Robert E. Sherwood, a Broadway professional who wrote both tragedy (ReunioninVienna( 1931)and comedy(There Shall Be No Night 1940). Marc Connelly wrote touching fantasy inan AfricanAmerican folk biblical play The Green Pastures in 1930.

2. Choose one of the below instructions to write your literary analysis.

a) Kate Chopin and the subjects that she broadly expressed in her works.
b) Toni Morrison known for her novels of epic themes, vivid dialogue and richly detailed characters.
c) Eudora Welty - an American author of short stories and novels about the American South.
Eudora Welty was born ( April 13 1909) and died ( July 21 2001). She was an American writer known for short stories and novels. She was also a good photographer in her field at the same time. She wrote short stories and novels about the American South which was awarded numerous awards including Presidential Medal of Freedom and the order of the South.Welty's first short story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman",it was published in 1936. Her work mainly attracted the attention of author Katherine Anne Porter, who became a mentor to her and wrote the foreword to Welty's first collection of short stories, A Curtain of Green, in 1941. The book established Welty as one of American literature's leading lights, and featured the stories "Why I Live at the P.O.", "Petrified Man", and the frequently anthologized "A Worn Path". Excited by the printing of Welty's works in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, the Junior League of Jackson, of which Welty was a member, requested permission from the publishers to reprint some of her works at this time. She eventually published about forty short stories, five novels, three works of non-fiction, and one children's book.


Teachers: M.V. Tursunova, Sh. Mukhamedova.
The Head of the Chair: M.R. Galieva