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This thesis proposes a study of social criticism in the major plays of the American dramatist Elmer Rice. It is mainly concerned with showing Rice's prominence as a social dramatist and the reasons for his neglect by his critics. The thesis attempts to prove that Rice's nature as a social critic was directly affected by the political, economic and social conditions which were contemporary to his works. It also shows that Rice's adoption of social criticism in his plays was a means towards diagnosing the ills of the American social life. His Utopian and social attitude was said to have played a very important part in shaping his criticism of the shortcomings of his society. Springing from a deep sense of patriotism, his social criticism has always been seen as a main aspect in his social plays. Furthermore, the thesis has put a great emphasis on the fact that Rice's social criticism was mainly launched against capitalism which reflected his attitude as a Fabian socialist.To emphasize the credibility of this idea, the thesis has given a full analysis of the themes of Rice's major plays. Its target has been an attempt to give an evidence of Rice's valuable social works.

This dissertation aims to analyze the structure of spoken discourse in literary texts. It seeks to provide a linguistic analysis of the dramatic language of the American dramatist Eugene O'Neill in his two plays: The Hairy Ape (1922) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1956), The primary concern is to study the interactional aspects of some lexico-grammatical forms that mark the structure of the conversational exchanges between the characters in the two plays. The verbal and non-verbal interactions are analyzed as well in order to highlight the coherence of the dialogue. In addition, the dissertation tries to explore the interactional aspects of dramatic discourse to show in what way they can be studied for interpreting the meanings and thematic issues implicit in the conversational exchanges of a dialogue.