Playing Upon Biographical Myths: William Shakespeare and Lesia Ukrainka as Characters in Contemporary Drama

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dc.contributor.authorVysotska, Natalia
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-04T16:55:35Z
dc.date.available2022-01-04T16:55:35Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe article sets out to explore two plays by contemporary playwrights, one American (Don Nigro, Loves Labours Wonne), the other Ukrainian (Neda Nezhdana, And Still I will Betray You), focusing on William Shakespeare and Lesia Ukrainka, respectively, within the framework of "the author as character" subgenre of fictional (imaginative) biography. Accordingly, the article considers the correlation between the factual and the fictional as one of its foci of attention. Drawing upon a variety of theoretical approaches (Paul Franssen, Ton Hoenselaars, Ira Nadel, Aleid Fokkema, Michael MacKeon, Ina Shabert and others), the article summarizes the principal characteristics of "the author as character" subgenre and proceeds to discuss how they operate in the dramas under scrutiny. The analysis makes it abundantly clear that in Nigro’s and Nezhdana’s plays the balance between fact and fiction is definitively tipped in favor of the latter. By centering their (quasi) biographical plays on highly mythologized artists of national standing, both dramatists aimed at demythologizing these cult figures, inevitably placing them, however, within new mythical plots combining a Neo-Romantic vision of the artist as demiurge, with a Neo-Baroque as well as fin de siècle apology of death and a postmodern denial of one objective reality.uk_UA
dc.identifier.citationVysotska N. Playing Upon Biographical Myths: William Shakespeare and Lesia Ukrainka as Characters in Contemporary Drama / Natalia Vysotska // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2021. - № 8. - P. 103-119. - https://doi.org/10.18523/kmhj249192.2021-8.103-119uk_UA
dc.identifier.issn2313-4895
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.18523/kmhj249192.2021-8.103-119
dc.identifier.urihttps://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/22126
dc.language.isoenuk_UA
dc.relation.sourceKyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journaluk_UA
dc.statusfirst publisheduk_UA
dc.subjectbiographyuk_UA
dc.subjectauthor as characteruk_UA
dc.subjectdramauk_UA
dc.subjectWilliam Shakespeareuk_UA
dc.subjectDon Nigrouk_UA
dc.subjectLesia Ukrainkauk_UA
dc.subjectNeda Nezhdanauk_UA
dc.subjectarticleuk_UA
dc.titlePlaying Upon Biographical Myths: William Shakespeare and Lesia Ukrainka as Characters in Contemporary Dramauk_UA
dc.typeArticleuk_UA
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