Base and Superstructure in Trevor Griffith’s Piano
B Jayalakshmi · IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science · 2012
Trevor Griffiths is a contemporary Marxist playwright in Britain.He has been writing plays for stage screen and cinema since 1969.He is well-known for his stage play Comedians.Some of his plays are adaptations by the famous writers such as D.H.Lawrence and Anton Chekhov.One of his important plays Piano takes its origin from Anton Chekhov\'s short stories.In this article the play Piano will be discussed in the light of Marxist perspective applying one of the significant Marxists concept of \'BASE AND SUPERSTRUCTURE\'.