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Utopian plays

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Genre/Form termUtopian plays
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Variant(s)Utopian drama
Utopic drama
See alsoDrama
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Scope notePlays that depict an ideal society.
Found inContemporary justice review, Dec. 2005, viewed online Mar. 17, 2012: p. 409 (Howard Brenton's utopian plays; "Brenton ... has specifically characterized three of his plays as Utopian. These are Sore Throats, Bloody Poetry, and Greenland.")
The reader's encyclopedia of world drama, 2002, via Google books, viewed on Mar. 17, 2012: p. 113 (A new utopian comedy; the utopian "collective drama" R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots) p. 525 (the utopian play Andělé mezi námi) p. 726 (R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots (1921). A utopian drama by Karel Čapek)
Bhattacharya, N. Reading the splendid body, c1998, via Google books, viewed on Mar. 17, 2012: p. 122 (Starke's utopic play)
Studies in English literature, 1500-1900, spring 2000, via Project MUSE, viewed online Mar. 17, 2012: p. 339 (Margaret Cavendish's dramatic utopias) p. 340 (Cavendish's utopian plays)
Google search, Mar. 17, 2012 (The word robot was originally from Karel Capek's utopic drama about robots revolution agains[t] people; Technology overtakes theater in this utopic play by the successful actor and playwright Yiğit Sertdemir)
GSAFD, 2000 (Utopian fiction. UF Utopias. Use for works which depict an ideal society. BT Fantasy fiction. RT Dystopias)