The Battle of the Sexes in Modern American and Russian Drama
The Battle of the Sexes in Modern American and Russian Drama

Summary/Abstract: The concept of “world literature” introduced by Goethe at the beginning of the 19th century is based on the assumption that there are certain basic conflicts and problems, characterizing mankind. One of them is definitely “the battle of the sexes”. This issue was fore-grounded both in drama and literature especially in the 20th century, burdened by the Freudian theory on the one hand and feminist implications on the other. Being dramatic in its essence, no wonder, this problem has been most successfully explored in modern drama, where “the basic instinct” is usually placed in a complex social, national and philosophical context, which allows the authors to consider the issue on different levels of meaning. This can be traced on the basis of a comparative analysis of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee and Sport Scenes 1981 by Edward Radzinski.[...]

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