The labyrinths of contemporary drama theories

Abstract

The review article presents an assessment of the collective monograph New Theoretical Terms for Understanding Drama. Slavic Perspectives (Natalia Maliutina and Jarosław Ławski (Eds), Białystok – Odessa 2014) on contemporary European drama. The authors involved are Polish, Russian and Ukrainian scholars who elaborate on the present-day development of traditional drama species (comedy, tragedy, ‘comédie en vandeville’) as well as the new ones (stand-up). The book is a significant contribution to the academic domains of drama, theatre and literary theory. The neatly published work also contains biographical notes of the articles’ authors and interesting theatre photographs.