The thesis discusses the dramatic work of Zofka Kveder, which includes texts from the book collection Love, two one-act plays, The Drunkard and Egoism, and the four-act play The Americans. I compare the above-mentioned texts with selected plays written by two French authors – Henry Gréville and Jane de la Vaudère. Their dramatic oeuvre is quite rich, although they both wrote mainly prose and poetry. In this thesis, I analyse only a few of their plays, focusing on Vaudère's collection Pour le flirt!: Saynètes mondaines and mentioning three other one-act plays – Dupont sera élu!, Le Modèle and Victor Hugo, and Gréville's collection of seven one-act plays, Comédies de paravent. A comparative analysis shows more differences than similarities in the themes of the selected works, which is not surprising given that the life stories of the female playwrights are quite different. The essential difference lies in their belonging to different social classes (Vaudère comes from a wealthy bourgeois family, while the other two writers do not). The French authors are also linked by the fact that they were able to obtain higher education and establish their literary careers in Paris. Although all of them were interested in women's issues, Kveder was the most outspoken in writing about them, especially pointing out the lack of access to educational opportunities for girls and women. In her literary works, she presented images of femininity with which she sought to reshape the social roles of women at the time. Such female characters are not to be found in any of the selected French plays. I also compare the similarities and differences in dramatic form; one-act plays predominate, while four-act plays also appear. In the French texts, there are lyrical elements present as well.
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