Kate Beckett

The Tragedy Recreation of Richard III The performance of Richard III is a fruitless play about a play that begins in a car park; the residence of long lost Richard III’s skeleton. This piece combines contemporary theatre with Shakespearean theatre to supposedly engage the audience’s understanding and reflection of the nature of evil, the value of Shakespeare and traditionalism of plays. Richard III was co-written by Daniel Evans and Marcel Dorney and directed by Daniel Evans as a recreation of…

Did you know that Dr. Seuss won 6 medals for all of his books combined ? He made all different types of children books, mainly rhyming. One of his popular books was called Green Eggs and Ham, this book was published August 12, 1960. This symbolized the things we are afraid of, through two characters: Sam-I-Am and an unnamed character. In the book Green Eggs and Ham, the character Sam-I-Am constantly persuaded the unnamed character to try the Green Eggs and Ham. The unnamed character refused…

at the same time. Clov is a knight; trapped in a patterned way of movement and actions. Nell and Nagg represent captured chess pieces because they cannot move. The game of chess imitates a lot of repetitious movements. This is significant because Beckett wrote a lot of repeating lines and scenes. For example, Clov’s line, “I’ll leave you, I have things to do” is repeated 3 times within 4 pages. I only counted the work “endgame” once and it was in Hamm’s ending monologue. He…

Jacques Copeau was born in a well off middle class family in Paris, France. He had always had a love for poetry, theatre, and literature and became acquaintances with some of the theater people and playwrights of his time. He became known as an advocate for theater reform after he was impatient with commercial theater, and was a director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Copeau’s first stage play was Brouillard du Matin at the Nouveau Theater in France. Copeau’s Career Timeline In 1909, he became…

On Friday, October 2nd I attended a Stage III production of The God of Carnage at the Beaudoin Theater in Siena Campus’ Foy Hall. Stage III productions vary each year, so plays performed over the years are not repetitive. In other words, Stage III could present any genre of play. Specific to the contemporary play presented by Stage III, God of Carnage was directed by Shayne David, a Creative Arts major at Siena College. The individual who wrote the God of Carnage is Yasmina Reza. Yasmina Reza…

Furthermore, both plays kind of fits into the concept of comedy. It’s the classic scenario of a comedy where the villain is carried off to jail, the lovers get married and justice is served. However, there is no renewal in society because the blocking force itself is not renewed. In “Tartuffe”, Orgon is the blocking force who separates Mariane and Valère from being together. He says “Yes, Tartuffe shall be/Allied by marriage to this family/And he’s to be your husband is that clear? /It’s a…

Beckett’s play Krapp’s Last Tape, an older man celebrates his sixty-ninth birthday in his office, but listens to past recordings of himself from thirty years ago. Beckett emphasizes eloquently described movements and symbolism of everyday objects to reveal how resolutions from the past tends to turn into hypocrisy in the future. Beckett uses the movements of Krapp to describe the tiredness and resentment that he has for himself, yet they are broken promises he commits. He writes, “…

Kate Chopin will be my author that I will be discussing in my paper. Chopin had a strong voice on her feelings towards self-discovery in her stories. Chopin lets her readers know about her views based on her female characters in her stories. Self-discovery is shown through some of the different female characters throughout many of her stories. I will be discussing a few of the stories and characters in my paper. The theme of self-discover simply just means finding how the characters feel and…

The Princess Bride’s tongue-tied Impressive Clergyman slowly and monotonously paints a picture of marriage, “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam... And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva.” Is marriage the beginning of a picture to be painted beautifully, or simply a canvas restricted by a frame? Young Mrs. Mallard has just heard the tragic news of her husband’s sudden, unexpected death. Paralyzed by the news, she sobs and runs…

Kate Chopin is considered one of the first feminist writers of the twentieth century; she used literary realism for addressing issues of race, gender, colonialism, slavery, etc. We see her feminist approach in her portraying of women’s realities in the south and how their lack of independence and freedom affect their lives. In the other hand, Henry James is also realist in style, but he depicts reality from an objective impartial position, his personages are portrayed as a mirror. In his novel…