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Donnie Darko Like Tragedies From Theatre
1,676 words-Theatre as Philosophy- The evolution of theatre is a long and complex story. What once began as a ritual to the ancient gods has since developed into an elaborate examination of mankind. Theatre originated in Ancient Greece as a celebration to the god Dionysius, where amateur actors would dance and sing in order to imitate him. Consequently, as the Greek Empire developed, so did theatre. By the end of the Greek Empire, scripts were being written, theatres were being built, and professional acto...
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Past Plays An Important Role
2,971 wordsSTAGE MANAGER: This is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. - This is the way we were. - Thornton Wilder, Our Town Compare and contrast the way in which two modern American dramatists present the past Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder in 1938, is a patriotic tale about small-town American life before the First World War. This classic play traces the simple, wholesome lives of two families, the Gibbs es and the Webbs, and represents thei...
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Only Comical Stereotype Aristophanes
862 wordsLYSISTRATA, a comedy of stereotypes The playwright Aristophanes wrote about an ancient Greece, Athens in particular, during a time of constant warfare. His play "Lysistrata" is an attempt to amuse while putting across an anti-war message. In fact even the naming of the play is an anti-war message of sorts. The word "lysistrata" means, "disband the army" (Jacobus 162). Aristophanes was a crafty writer; he creates a work of art that causes his audience to think about the current state of affairs i...
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Shakespeare's Use Of Disguise
544 wordsShakespeare uses disguise in his play, Twelfth Night, to cause confusion and internal conflict between his characters and it is this confusion and conflict that appeal to the audience. It keeps them wondering how many more of these situations will arise, and in the end, how will this confusion and conflict be resolved? The first time that this is evident is in Act I, Scene IV, where Cesario, really Viola is sent by her master, Orsino, to win the love of Countess Olivia for him. At first it seems...
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Play In The Cycle As Spectacle
4,604 wordsRoland Barthes's essay on "The World of Wrestling" draws analogically on the ancient theatre to contextualize wrestling as a cultural myth where the grandiloquence of the ancient is preserved and the spectacle of excess is displayed. Barthes's critique - which is above all a rewriting of what was to understand what is - is useful here insofar as it may be applied back to theatre as another open-air spectacle. But in this case, not the theatre of the ancients, but the Middle English pageant prese...
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Raina And Sergius
939 wordsPlay analysis " Arms and the Man " By Bernard Shaw 'Arms and the Man's tarts with gunfire on a dark street in a small town. The romantic and willful Raina is about to begin her true-life adventure by sheltering the handsome fugitive Bluntschli, enemy of her equally handsome fianc'e Sergius The setting of the play is in war-torn Bulgaria, and focuses not only on the romance between the young people of the play, but the atrocities that go on during war times and the ability of people not so very f...
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Stewart's Radio Play
1,420 wordsDouglas Stewart's radio play, The Fire On The Snow, first performed in 1941, presents the story of Captain Falcon Robert Scott's tragic expedition to the South Pole. In the radio play, Stewart skilfully positions the audience to accept the dominant reading of the play by showing the dominant discourse: that heroes' nobility depends on their action and ordinary people can become heroes too. Stewart also positions the audience by using the role of the Announcer as a mask for himself to give commen...
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Good Plays
1,119 wordsTOPIC: A - The Crucible was written in the early 1950's as an exploration of events which took place in Massachusetts in 1692. What does the play have to offer an audience in Perth, Western Australia in 1996 The Crucible is a play which brings to our attention many timeless issues. The nature of good and evil, power and its corruption, honour and integrity and our tendency to create scapegoats for all manner of problems are all brought up through the course of the play - sometimes in very dramat...
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Theater Of Dionysus The Theater Of Dionysus
1,112 wordsThe Theater of Dionysus The Theater of Dionysus was Europe's first theater, and stood immediately below the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It was originally built in the late 5th century B.C. The theater was an outdoor auditorium in the shape of a great semicircle on the slope of the Acropolis, with rows of seats on which about eighteen thousand spectators could comfortably seat. The front rows consisted of marble chairs, and were the only seats in the theater that had a back support. The priests ...
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End Of The Play
2,119 wordsMovies don't always do a good book justice. The same thing can be said about plays. 'Nickel and Dimed' at the University of Iowa is a fine attempt to illustrate Barbra Ehrenreich's book of minimum wage workers and the difficulties they face finical ly. As a college student, concentrated in my own daily schedule, attending the Nickel and Dimed production was a change in my routine. I was looking forward to the many story lines that would be produced on the stage. I was more connected to the first...
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Euripides Treatment Of The Myth Of Heracles
1,310 wordsEuripides Treatments Of The Myth Of Heracles First Marriage In His Play Heracles. The Heracles of Euripides is innovative in its treatment of the Heracles myth. Heracles is perhaps the greatest hero of the ancient Greek world. Stories about Heracles are varied and abundant however, the traditional nature of the myth does logically place many constraints upon the playwright. Some events had to occur or be assumed to occur in any account of a story. Euripides, however, interpreted the Heracles myt...
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Role Of Convict And Officer
1,275 wordsThe Art is in the History: A review of Our Country's Good Aboriginal Australians look at their lives as the re-enactment of the journeys and quests taken by ancestor heroes in the Tjukurapa, the Dreamtime, the time before which the earth did not exist. And yet it took less than 75 years of colonization to wipe out most of the people who had occupied the Australian continent for over 40,000 years. The hardships faced by their ancestors could not have prepared them for the boatloads of disease and...
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End Of The Play
3,741 wordsA Midsummer Night's Dream takes place in Athens. Theseus, the Duke of Athens, is planning his marriage with Hippolyta, and as a result he is a planning a large festival. Egeus enters, followed by his daughter Hermia, her beloved Lysander, and her suitor Demetrius. Egeus tells Theseus that Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, wanting instead to marry Lysander. He asks for the right to punish Hermia with death if she refuses to obey. Theseus agrees that Hermia's duty is to obey her father, and threa...
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Unique Version Of The World Lawler Presents
2,813 wordsYear 11 English Literature ^aEUR" drama, long essay ^aEURoeThe stage represents the world but it is, in fact, just one version of the world. ^aEUR Discuss how a version of the world is presented in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Playwrights use the stage to convey a representation of the world to audiences, however, it is actually only ever one version of the world as they see it. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is a classic Australian drama, through which dramatist Ray Lawler provides a window i...
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Mrs Higgins The Audience
2,051 wordsExplore the way George Bernard Shaw presents the character of Henry Higgins in Pygmalion. Do you think he is a character with whom the audience can sympathise? George Bernard Shaw presents Henry Higgins in a number of different ways. He acquires various roles and through these the audience can see the strengths and weaknesses of his character. Throughout Pygmalion Shaw uses a wide range of literacy and dramatic techniques to portray Higgins emotions and actions. The use of stage directions, lang...
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Little Comedy Within The Terror
842 wordsWhen confronted with a storyline containing a serious moral, what is the best way to capture and maintain an audience? All you need to do is embed a little comedy within the terror and you have got it made. The authors of the guild plays knew and demonstrated this best. Contained within the episodes are the perfect ensemble of terror and comical wit. The guild (or Corpus Christi) plays were sombre lessons from the bible that were performed during festivals for the everyday people. Some are still...
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J B Preistley
487 wordsJohn Boynton Preistley wrote 'An Inspector Calls@ during one week in 1945. He was a Yorkshireman who wanted to comment on the key conflicts taking place in English society in 1945. J B Preistley wrote sixteen novels and over forty plays in his lifetime and experiance much success. As a political social thinker, J B Preistley used literature as a means of commenting on society and the lack of support he felt the poor had. He was patriotic (passionatley love your country) socialist whose major iss...
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Sampson And Gregory In The First Scene
1,407 wordsEssay question: How does Shakespeare set up the play of "Romeo and Juliet" in act 1, scene 1? Essay answer: "Romeo and Juliet" is a tragic play, of two star crossed lovers caught up in the midst of their feuding families. The dispute between Romeo's and Juliet's' families is intense and deeply rooted, making the struggle for their freedom to love each other even more difficult. The opening scene of "Romeo and Juliet" is extremely important because it plays a major role in establishing key elemen...
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Anti Climax In Laughter As Julia
1,154 wordsThe term 'sentimental' refers to the type of comedy which arose in the mid 18th century which contrasts traditional comedy where laughing is paramount. Instead there are serious aspects which arise in a sentimental comedy where the characters either have a strict sense of morality or an acute sensibility. The aim of any sentimental comedy is to show its characters in distress, from this aim, the term referring to such plays was 'weeping comedy. ' This term applies greatly to the character of Jul...
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Much Ado As An Italianate Play
951 wordsAssess The Influences Of Italy And Spain Assess The Influences Of Italy And Spain On ' Much Ado About Nothing' It has been estimated that at least one third of the plays performed between 1549 and 1640 had either Italian sources or locations. In most cases it was both. The influence of Italian literature onMuch Ado' is probably the most convincing evidence for this judgement. Bandello's story has a number of main themes: class conflict, the role of Fortune and the rival claims of male friendship...
