The Ascent of F6: Exceptional Collaborative Case in Poetic Drama

Yahya Saleh Hassan Dahami

Department of English
Faculty of Science & Arts, Al Baha University
Al Mandaq, Saudi Arabia

Abstract:

To write plays are not easy, to make them verse, is difficult but to cooperate in composing poetic drama, is of great challenge. This study tries to prove the capability and manageability in collaboration not only in ordinary prose drama but also in poetic plays. It aims to trace, through an analytical and critical technique, the procedures of collaboration showing, to what degree both of the two collaborators, Auden and Isherwood, achieved success in dealing with contemporary poetic drama using modern language. The research is an approach on one of the likely best plays they shared, The Ascent of F6 (1933). The study starts giving a glance on poetic drama then it traces the collaboration between W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood with special reference to the poetic play The Ascent of F6.

Cite as:

Dahami, Y. S.H. (2018). The Ascent of F6: Exceptional Collaborative Case in Poetic Drama. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies, 2 (2).

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol2no2.11

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Keywords

Auden and Isherwood, collaboration, plays, Poetic drama, twentieth century

About the author

Yahya Saleh Hassan Dahami is an Associate Professor of English Literature, Criticism and
Language. He obtained his Ph. D. in English Literature from, New Delhi in 2004. He is a Board
Member of English Department, Faculty of Science and Arts – Al Mandaq, Al Baha University.
Dahami is Head of English Department, Faculty of Science and Arts in Al Mandaq 2010 – 2013
and a Board Member of Faculty of Science and Arts –2010 – 2013.

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