On Monday morning, 10/25/2021, a doctoral thesis, entitled “Characterisation Processes in Tennessee Williams's Plays: A Cognitive Stylistic Study”, was discussed at the Department of English at the College of Arts.
The thesis presented by the student Islam Adel Jabbar included five chapters. The first chapter discussed the Preliminaries, the second chapter discussed Theoretical Background, the third chapter dealt with Research Methodology, the fourth chapter dealt with Analysis and Discussion, and the fifth chapter included Conclusions and Recommendations.
The thesis aims to analyze the Tennessee Williams theatrical characters to reveal the process of creating characters linguistically through their distinct linguistic features in the text. The process of creating them was similar through the common linguistic features that lead to the deduction of similar features. This process is applied to his male and female characters through various theatrical texts through different stages of his creative life.
The thesis concluded that there is a similarity in the creation of his theatrical characters, and this results in the production of similar theatrical characters in several works and at different periods. This results in a pattern of female characters of troubled women that are repeated in all of his works and also produce a pattern of dominant and authoritarian male characters that are also repeated. Also, his characters from plays in the sixties, fifties, and forties are the richest.
