Open AccessWHIGS AGAINST TORIES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN DRAMA
Author(s) -
Violeta M. Janjatović
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
folia linguistica et litteraria/folia linguistica et litteraria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
0eISSN - 2337-0955
pISSN - 1800-8542
DOI - 10.31902/fll.32.2020.4
Subject(s) - sarcasm , period (music) , independence (probability theory) , drama , history , literature , spanish civil war , character (mathematics) , laughter , feeling , irony , aesthetics , art , psychology , social psychology , statistics , geometry , mathematics , archaeology
The overwhelming sarcasm and the taunting satire are certainly the feelings that accompanied the American revolutionary period. Approaching both the struggle for independence and the American Revolution, it is discovered that the colonists' sense of laughing and ridiculousness became more pronounced and readier in recognizing the weakness of its enemy and presenting it to the world through the biting laughter of satires. Many satires of this character did not suddenly appear. Their appearance leads to a period many years before the outbreak of the War of Independence and the famous Bacon Rebellion in 1676. Nevertheless, what cannot be denied is that by the approachof 1776, dramatic creativity started its rapid development. Immediately after the first war blow, satires began to be published in nearly every newspaper in the American colonies. American dramatists took an active part in the struggle for independence. At first, the potential, and later, an inevitable revolution made dramatists from the ranks of patriots and loyalists define themselves, their opponents, and the nature of the conflict itself in a way that remains intriguing and powerful over two hundred years later