Modern Drama as a Source of Enlightenment in the 20th Century with Special Reference to John Arden

Modern drama represented by the dramatists or play writers was a genre which employed the spectator’s situation in the theatre as a device revealing the morbid or chaotic of his self-consciousness. It was the composition of liberation, looks at the world and saw a world beyond the operation of mind. This was actually a ray of enlightenment that increased the sense of direction in the real world after leaving the theatre and aim was to promote the art of navigation in reality and was to awaken something close to a direct experience of man’s essence as a spirit. Contemporary drama taught that the situation in the theatre was capable of making decisions, judgement to avoid the danger of socialism. New generation of dramatists emerged frequently were eloquent about the forms and aims of this genre. The desire was to create plays that stand in the vanguard of political and social change. Written plays reflected a profound disquiet about the current state of nature. The evolution of theatre censorship in 1968 took place with new writers particularly Wesker, Osborne and Arden produced a real theatre, different from the traditional by a well-made plays. Writers’ political protest was contained within existing theatrical modals. Their characters proclaimed a refreshingly abrasive form of radicalism at the audience. These dramatists remained vehement to the theatre for perpetual challenges and inspirations. They came as maturity at a profoundly dramatic time in British social and political life.