Philosophical ideas in drama on the example of women's drama

Abstract

In this article, specific methodological approaches to analyzing drama from a philosophical point of view are formulated. Our research’s principal conceptual basis consists of considering the personalities of the drama characters animated in the text (and especially in the stage action) as primary attractors for readers-viewers (recipients). Drama consideration (in addition to philological, psychological, semiotic, and other aspects) is proposed as a metaphor that leads to a holistic intellectual and spiritual understanding of its social and philosophical meanings in the unity of the personal-conscious, collective unconscious, and socially determined content. In addition, a conceptual system of socio-philosophical analysis of drama as a unity of society’s real microsocial and macrosocial environments, expressed by the images of the virtual world of the dramatic work in society as a whole, is proposed and implemented. The author explains and systematizes the socio-philosophical ideas and the geo-sociocultural aspect of feminism and feminist literature (features of feminism and feminist drama in the Anglo-American reality). In addition, the author contributes to understanding an important aspect of the modern Western mentality. It is shown that women’s drama is one of the most significant genres of expression of the “philosophy of women’s lives” in the socio-cultural dimension and contains relevant social and philosophical ideas related to gender issues. The article considers the application of the modern literary approach of “feminist criticism” in combination with traditional philological and philosophical approaches, which allowed us to offer a more systematic understanding of the phenomenon of “women’s drama” and revealed the links between the ideology and practice of the feminist movement with the peculiarity of expressing the positions of specific subjects in the form of dramatic works.