The forms of original contemporary Finnish drama in the period of years 1995-2007

My master's thesis' goal is to introduce the contemporary Finnish drama to that Czech and Slovak speaking reader, who might be interested in Finland and its culture. The emphasis of my master's thesis is the theme of the contemporary Finnish drama and its placement into a broader social context. Whilst the contemporary Finnish drama is a broad term, I first had to determine the corpus of my investigation. I have decided to limit the time period by the year 1995, when Finland seemed to definitelly get over the grievous economical crisis of the early 1990s and became a member of the European Union, the upper boarder was the present years of writing the thesis, that is 2007/2008. Then, I only deal with the dramas originally written in Finnish language, thus there are some remarkable Finnish Swedish playwrights missing from this master's thesis. On the grounds of genre and originality of the dramatic texts I have decided not to be concerned with any other texts than the original dramatic texts such as adaptations of prosaic works, benefitions, poetic montages, musicals, etc. On the basis of target group I have excluded the plays for young and fairy tales. I thus decided to concentrate on a corpus consisting of original dramatic plays for adults that are of certain artistic quality and statement value and were..