Radio drama

The Importance of Comparison The three plays by Euripides that will be reviewed in this essay will be Iphigenia at Aulis, The Trojan Women, and Hippolytus. As I read each of these plays I found each more exciting than the last. The words of Euripides take the reader a step back in time and does a fantastic job giving the reader a mental image of what is going on. The stories of the Greek culture are very interesting and let the reader understand the values that were held in that period. They…

Sophocle was actually one of the great ancient Greek tragedians. He made the best plays such as Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus. The play we are going to write about is one of his best play name Oedipus Rex. The prophecy is one of the primary part of the Oedipus, the King of Thebes. He learned that his beautiful city is devastated by plague and fire. Because of that, Creon his brother-in-law was sent to the house of Apollo to find a solution to end the plague. After…

This play will be put on a stage. This will not be a completely normal stage, it will be on a thrust type stage. I like this kind of state, because it is interesting and not a boring normal stage where the audience just site right in front of the stage. There will be a curtain in between each act/scene, to allow out backstage members to change the background of the scene. I think that this stage type will be perfect audience. Out backstage crew will have 60 seconds to change the…

Laura Keyes History Dr. White October 14, 2015 All the Worlds a Cinema: a comparative look at Shakespeare’s plays and their film counterparts. Shakespeare has been done so many different ways, by many different people. Some do modern adaptations, set in different towns, even completely changing the words, and those are just on the stage. There has also been many film adaptations. Some are good, such as Mel Gibson’s 1990 adaptation of Hamlet, and some are not as good, such as Baz…

When I went to see the international spelling bee I expected what you would of some run down high school version of a play. At my school we didn’t really have a vast drama club so my expectations were sort of low for this piece. It was kind of like when you go to attend a film in theatres you see all of these commercials and then attend the movie to just rewatch the key parts that they already presented to you in the commercial. One does not have this with live theatre I did not know what to…

Boal theater is political, traditional. Aristotle tragedy is oppressive. Boal aim is to break the wall between audience and performance. Chapter 1. Aristotle’s Coercive System of Tragedy • Aristotle’s philosophy/tragedy (obey rules, no rebellion) - character of the tragedy would be antisocial, rebellious. His characteristics and ambitions lead to tragedy happening to him. Through the theater, Aristotle would fear members of audience who share the same qualities as the main character does.…

The Consequences of Uncontrolled Emotions The plays Trifles by Susan Glaspell, Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller all illustrate how the lack of control of emotions not only cause the of ruining relationships, but can also cause self-harm or death and can cause the destruction of personal reputation. When reading these plays, the reader sees how detrimental negative emotions can be when it comes to the well-being of themselves and others that are in their…

That is called dramatic irony. Dramatic Irony is when you know more about the story that the character does. The drama Oedipus Rex is full of dramatic irony. For example we know Oedipus killed the king of Thebes but he does not nor does he know the man he killed was his father, we also know he married his mother. The fact that Oedipus does not know any of these things makes this drama dramatically ironic. The reader feels dramatic irony when Oedipus kills King Laius, when he marries his mother,…

An American Dream Tragedy In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, protagonist Willy Loman is a salesman with a wife, Linda, and their two children, Biff, and Happy (Miller). Loman seeks approval from everyone and thinks everyone must like him for him to be successful. He is also hard on his two sons, Biff and Happy, and disapproves of their dreams. Loman sees how socially accepted people who play sports and have fame are, and so he tries directing their life by wanting Biff to be…

The modern tragedy is much different from the other tragedies like Shakespearean and Aristotle, for a very few reasons such as the main character having a positive outcome weather through death or realization of their downfall. The hamartia of the tragedy has more to deal with the responses from society on their flaw or flaws rather than the internal and personal flaw that they have committed. The literary model of a tragic hero can also be applied to real life people and characters such as…