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    The destructive nature of human beings and their relationships is revealed in the process of discovery is conveyed in the poems 'Home Burial' and 'Fire and Ice' written by Robert Frost and the playwright 'Macbeth' composed by William Shakespeare. Dramatic dialogue "Home Burial" written by Robert Frost in 1914 depicts a women and a man involved in a heated verbal confrontation that discovers the distance between them and their inability to be on common ground. Setting wise it is place on a…

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    playwriting and play analysis. His professional work as a producer, story editor, playwright, and judge of new play and screenplay…

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    the world he would bring. Shakespeare was a brilliant man with many talents. Because of his education and many different influences, Shakespeare developed a great skill for writing, becoming the greatest English playwright. William Shakespeare was a well-known poet and playwright. Almost a dozen years before the theatre in London opened, a man by the name of William Shakespeare was born. Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, a time otherwise known as “the Elizabethan Age” (“William…

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    Shakespeare’s work has encourage the United Staes to be a democracy nation and doing so they have developed its own unique directions. His plays made a lot of people happy and save people. Shakespeare was a man of many plays, and was known as the greatest playwright of his era. He got the second largest house in Stratford in 1597. He has done so well in the four centuries he was alive, that people said great things about him and his plays. Plus some of our founding fathers owned some of his…

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    William Shakespeare William Shakespeare once said, “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” A successful English playwright, Shakespeare wrote 195 pieces of literature, including his 154 sonnets, 37 plays, and 4 poems. Around the world actors perform his plays, movies of his works are produced and his quotes are written or spoken by people in today’s society. Through these literature pieces, Shakespeare has…

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    Mere weeks before the onset of the 1960’s, a group made of mostly University of Chicago alums embarked on a new comedic venture as they opened the doors to Second City Theatre. Little did the audience and players know that the establishment would soon become a pioneering institution in the domain of improvisational theatre and comedy. Charging only one dollar for entry, this counter-culture, new theatre allowed the audience a truly unique experience as they used intelligent humor and audience…

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    The theme of The Crucible is leading towards to keep a good reputation you must have self-respect and respect others. Many people were accused in Salem of witchcraft. Some of those people confessed to witchcraft to save their lives. While few refused to confess to keeping their name "respected.” Proctor says "you will not use me! I am no Sarah Good or Tituba, I am John Proctor! Yuu will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you should use me.” He says this as a way to stand up to Danforth…

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    that context (perhaps figuring into the reason that they are sympathetic to the degree that they are). Furthermore, their guilt or innocence, may serve their respective playwrights only to make the exact opposite point. Finally we as an audience may, and are entitled to, reach a completely different conclusion from the playwrights about Othello and Oedipus’ guilt and its…

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    Born August 11, 1957, Hwang is a 58 year old Chinese American playwright who has a wife named Kathryn and two kids named Eva and Noah. Hwang, born and raised in Los Angeles, attended Stanford University and got his BA in English then attended Yale School of Drama. While attending Stanford, Hwang wrote his first play “Fresh Off the Boat” in 1979 which went on to win the OBIE award for best new American play. Hwang went on to write a number of plays, including “Chinglish” (2011), “Yellow…

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    and how other playwrights may handle a certain situation. As has already been said, the players in A Midsummer Night`s Dream are written as being incapable of intelligently presenting their play. Multiple prologues and odd design choices are used by the men to alleviate their own concerns that their soon to be audience may not be capable of understanding their play is fiction, especially the women.…

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