Artistic Realization of the War Theme in B. Shaw’s Short Plays (1915-1916)
Chernova Valeriya Alekseevna
Moscow Pedagogical State University
Submitted: 09.12.2020
Abstract. The paper aims to reveal specificity of the war theme realization in B. Shaw’s short plays (1915-1916) of the similar political problematic. The researcher analyses paradoxic situations and personages’ grotesquely inadequate behaviour creating the comic effect. The research objective involves identifying the means of the war theme artistic realization in B. Shaw’s dramaturgy. The study contributes to understanding the genre-forming features of B. Shaw’s extravaganzas, and therein lies its scientific originality. The conducted research allows concluding that B. Shaw’s three anti-war plays possess four features of the extravaganza genre and are pure extravaganzas. To achieve extravagance, the dramatist uses techniques of farce and grotesque.
Key words and phrases: тема войны, экстраваганца, парадоксальная ситуация, Б. Шоу, сатирический эффект, war theme, extravaganza, paradoxic situation, B. Shaw, satirical effect
Open the whole article in PDF format. Free PDF-files viewer can be downloaded .
References:
Balashov P. S. Khudozhestvennyi mir Bernarda Shou. M.: Khudozh. lit., 1982. 326 s.
Grazhdanskaya Z. T. Bernard Shou: ocherk zhizni i tvorchestva. M.: Prosveshchenie, 1965. 230 s.
Nikolyukin A. N. Kommentarii // Shou B. Polnoe sobranie p'es: v 6-ti t. / pod red. A. A. Aniksta, N. Ya. D'yakonovoi i dr. L.: Iskusstvo, 1980. T. 4. S. 633-639.
Romm A. S. Dzhordzh Bernard Shou. 1856-1950. L. - M.: Iskusstvo, 1965. 250 s.
Chernova V. A. Spetsifika zhanra ekstravagantsy v dramaturgii B. Shou // Filologicheskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki. 2019. T. 12. Vyp. 8. S. 97-100.
Shou B. Inka Perusalemskii / per. s angl. V. Paperno // Shou B. Polnoe sobranie p'es: v 6-ti t. L.: Iskusstvo, 1980. T. 4. S. 396-419.
Shou B. Ogestos vypolnyaet svoi dolg / per. s angl. I. Zvavicha // Shou B. Polnoe sobranie p'es: v 6-ti t. L.: Iskusstvo, 1980. T. 4. S. 423-442.
Shou B. O’Flaerti, kavaler ordena Viktorii / per. s angl. L. Polyakovoi // Shou B. Polnoe sobranie p'es: v 6-ti t. L.: Iskusstvo, 1980. T. 4. S. 371-391.
Shaw B. Augustus does his bit [Elektronnyi resurs]. URL: https://ia902608.us.archive.org/24/items/augustusdoeshisb03487gut/acdbh10.txt (data obrashcheniya: 13.03.2020).
Shaw B. O’Flaherty V. C. [Elektronnyi resurs]. URL: www.fullbooks.com/O-Flaherty-V-C-.html (data obrashcheniya: 13.03.2020).
Shaw B. The Inca of Perusalem [Elektronnyi resurs]. URL: https://ia802205.us.archive.org/7/items/theincaofperusal03486gut/incap10.txt (data obrashcheniya: 13.03.2020).
Русский
