Survey on English Drama and Literature

Many national and international events of the recent past have produced seismic shifts in the political, economic, social and seismic shifts in the political, economic,social and cultural landscape these include the demise of the Cold War, symbolically manifest in the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the resurgence of ethnic nationalism in Europe that resulted in the devastating Balkan confect and the international reverberations caused by the first and second Iraq Wars.

These world changing events sit alongside national developments such as Scottish all of which raisa questions of political legitimacy, national identity and cultural representation.

Other concerns preoccupying contemporary dramatists and theatre makers include the legacy of imperialism and the struggle to interrogate histories, memories and identities.