Staging Violence and its Impact in Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good

Abstract

Postmodern playwrights since World War II have started to deal with themes of violence on different levels. What the war caused has made them think of the indispensability of staging violence and its different types. The present article aims at dealing with the different ways violence is delineated and staged in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good (1988). It also aims at showing the different types of violence and the impact they have on the characters in the play. Wertenbaker manages to deal with different types of violence and showing that violence has become a fixed sign of human life after the second world war. Wertenbaker aims at stirring people against many of the oppression, violence, and injustice done in this world. She wants people not to remain silent.

Keywords

• Injustice
• Our Country's Good
• Violence
• Wertenbaker

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