თამაშის სიმბოლიკა 1950-60-იანი წლების ინგლისურენოვან დრამატურგიაში

This paper discusses the plays written in the 1950s and 1960s (Waiting for Godot, Endgame, All That Fall, Look Back in Anger, Under Plain Cover, The Zoo Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Delicate Balance, The Birthday Party, The Collection, The Lover) by four playwrights in English-language drama: Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter. The purpose of the research is to analyze the text of these plays, outline the types of games and determine their function.
Through parallels with the theoretical works of specialists in the field, the paper analyzes the types of games such as a game of roles, language games, author games and so on, which have different functions in the plays.
The first chapter combines two authors - Beckett and Osborne. In this part of the work, attention is mainly focused on several games: waiting, author's game against Godot, playing with texts, a game of roles. The waiting game, which begins with Waiting for Godot, combines several other games, including Bible games. This game ends with Endgame, in which the game against Godot seems to be lost.
The second chapter of the work discusses Edward Albee's plays. In the plays discussed, a large place is given to "childish games," playing with texts by the author, and "adult games." In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the characters are childish, although this situation seems to turn into "adult games" in a Delicate Balance.
Pinter's plays are discussed in chapter three. Blind man’s buff is one of the main games along with a game of roles in Pinter’s plays. The game of roles gives meaning to the characters' otherwise boring lives.
As a conclusion, the paper shows the similarities and differences between the plays of these authors and the main types of games.