The Image of the “Modern Man of Power” in the Unfinished Play Iphigenia by M. Zīverts
The Image of the “Modern Man of Power” in the Unfinished Play Iphigenia by M. Zīverts

Summary/Abstract: The creative work of the Latvian playwright Mārtiņš Zīverts develops the original and essential branch in the history of Latvian drama during the 20th century. Zīverts was born in 1903 in Latvia, he was a dramatist in the Latvian National Theatre and also in the Daile theatre from 1938 to1944. Since the mid-20s Zīverts has written many very popular plays for the Latvian theatre. The significant milestone in his creative development was his going into exile to Sweden in 1944, where Zīverts continued his work and staged the plays in the Latvian theatre in Stockholm. During that period Zīverts was familiar with the trends of modern European drama, for example, the existentialist plays by J. P. Sartre and A. Camus which had a strong influence on Zīverts’ post-war creative work. I would like to analyse the unfinished tragedy Iphigenia by M. Zīverts in which the playwright shows the solution of problems of power, one of his favourite themes. This is Zīverts’ last work which was planned at the end of the 1980s and was written until before the author’s death in 1990.[...]

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