Abstract
This paper explores the negative patterns of dramatizing academic professors in two American plays: David Mamet’s Oleanna (1992) and R. A. Gurney’s Human Events (2001). My research considers the adaptation of professors and the way they are represented through their actions, behaviors, and relationships with students, friends, and the surrounding comunity in the two aforementioned plays. It seems to me that sex, alcoholism and teaching incompetency might be the major attributes related to male and female professors in recent and contemporary American theater.
Highlights
IntroductionProfessors have been historically dramatized in a good number of American, British and European plays
Negative Models of Professors on StageProfessors have been historically dramatized in a good number of American, British and European plays
This paper explores the negative patterns of dramatizing academic professors in two American plays: David Mamet’s Oleanna (1992) and R
Summary
Professors have been historically dramatized in a good number of American, British and European plays This character appears in many recent plays including Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962), Simon Gray’s Butley (1971), Willy Russell’s Educating Rita (1980), Aria Irene Fornes’s Dr Kheal (1985), Andre Alexis’s Lambton Kent (1999), Mark F. Desire in most forms—sexual, political and economic— and its manifestations in alcoholism and teaching incompetency are key attributes of this character as it is dramatized in these plays While these negative attributes of the professor character might vary from one play and character to another, the professors we see in these plays are ruled at least by one of these negative attributes which are responsible for the downfall of this academic character
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