Drama

Poem Explication of “The Apparition” The poem dramatizes an internal and external conflict. First, the speaker struggles to mentally make amends with the woman who has broken his heart. Secondly, it is unveiled in the first line that the speaker has been hurt by an external force, a female, whom he wants her to suffer the consequences for her wrongdoings. The speaker refers to the woman as a “murd’ress” in the first line (“When by thy scorn, O’ murd’ress, I am dead (1))” even though she has not…

The first European dramatist Aeschylus is one of three legendary ancient Greek writers, who specialize in Greek tragedy. Joining him are legend’s Sophocles and Euripides. These men framed what societies called theater into what is it today by reconstructing the ways Greeks viewed theater. Aeschylus essentially learned to express the meaning of his plays through experience and creativity. He was a man who’s main purpose was to produce the correlation of man and the many gods the Greek’s believed…

Postmodernism expressed the life of Americans after World War II through different forms of literature. The population boomed, technology advanced, and the curriculum progressed around the 1940s and 1950s which further added to the changes faced by the American people. Although life for citizens slowly began to heal itself, especially after the war, families still suffered from their own issues. In other words, literature displayed the tragedies found within American households at the time…

This extract comes from act two of Othello and takes place after Othello has demoted Cassio for behaving disorderly at a celebration. We see a direct link to the source text of Othello; Cinthio’s Tale as the captain in the source text injures a guard and the Moor has no choice but to strip him of his rank. In this extract, as well as the events before, we are clearly shown Iago’s Machiavellian nature. Unable to manipulate Cassio with words, Iago tries other means such as making Cassio drunk so…

The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies, and it shares many essential characteristics with his other romantic comedies, such as Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. These characteristics include light-hearted and slapstick humor, disguises and deception, and a happy ending in which most of the characters come out satisfied. The light-heartedness of these romantic comedies contrasts sharply with the darker humor and deeper characterization of…

Commonly paved by either asphalt or concrete, streets are often viewed as undervalued, yet practical commodities that help ease the day-to-day lives of human beings. Rarely are they appreciated as avenues that connect people to one another, just as it was shown in the play General Tinio St. by Atong Rodillo. The show was held at the PGH Science Hall back in September 31, fog and dimmed lights signalled the start of the show, and a dance number to a special rendition of Beep Beep by Juan dela…

“Slapstick” is classed as a style of humor, which involves exaggerated physical activity that takes human common sense to a further level of their mind. The phrase “slapstick" belongs to the Italian language word batacchio. In England it is known as a club-like object combined of two wooden slats used in commedia dell'arte. If the battacchio is struck it makes smacking noise loudly and with such little force it transfers from the object through to the person acting like they have been struck.…

Dario Fo has distinguished himself as being the trailblazer of the modern grotesque theatre as we know it today. His plays have been characterized by a comic touch that stands out reminding us of the farce style. He once said “With comedy I search for the profound”. His witty atmosphere is omnipresent in “Ma Fina nedfa3, ma Rah Nedfa3”, one of his plays that has been adapted in colloquial Lebanese by Lina el Abyad who also took the responsibility of directing. It has been recently performed in…

MISE EN SCENE The arrangements of all the elements, whether it’s the actor, the lighting, decoration, props or anything which has to come in the frame and which is shown in the frame is known as mise en scene, a French word meaning placing on stage. One of the scenes, which represent mise en scene in a good manner, is the last scene of The 39 Steps, As Robert, Carroll, and the police gather backstage around the dying Mr. Memory, on-stage behind them visible from the stage wing we see performance…

Performance Analysis For Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew scene that our group had to perform, we made several key decisions in order to more accurately reflect the true personalities of our characters. These decisions affected the tone with which we spoke, the way did blocking on stage, the props in we used as well as the disguises we wore. To begin, our group decided it would be wise to go through the reading several times without acting out the scene first in order to get a feel for…