(Re)Visiting American Pragmatism in Tracy Letts’s August Osage County, Its American Screening and Romanian Staging
(Re)Visiting American Pragmatism in Tracy Letts’s August Osage County, Its American Screening and Romanian Staging

Summary/Abstract: August Osage County by Tracy Letts, contemporary playwright, one time Pulitzer prize and five times Tony-prize winning author can be interpreted pragmatically from the perspective of family relations and the generation gap. Consequently, after an overview of the author’s work which is less familiar to most and the assessment of his place in contemporary American drama, we aim at applying precepts such as pragmatic maxim and consequences or contingency of starting points to the text that has been both staged and screened. However, we will not insist on the differences between drama and film as we find them irrelevant to our purposes. Certainly, we will not ignore the rapport between philosophical and critical-literary pragmatism with applications to drama on which our methods draw.

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