Teen drama

All tragedy in the world could perhaps be avoided if there was less haste and more patience. If instead of rushing to war over a single offense, and patience and tact were employed—lives could be saved. “Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error,” wrote the famous French playwright Molière, one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. The French playwright was well known for his comedies in the same way that Shakespeare is known for his tragedies. One of his most famous plays, Romeo and Juliet is…

Acclaimed playwright, actor, and poet William Shakespeare portrayed human conflict and impoverishment in many of his distinguished plays. In the play “Measure for Measure,” Shakespeare provided a glimpse into human misfortune through a character named Claudio, “The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope” (Act III, Scene II). The excerpt correlates to the thoughts of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company workers. Inhumane conditions of sweatshops, disregard of safety regulations, and…

Theater Theater in ancient Rome would range from festivals, nude dancing, and acrobatics. Theater for Romans at the time was for honoring the gods on religious days. But since there were “over 200 religious days every year,” according to Rome.mrdonn.org, you could watch a performance almost every day! Theater was first recorded in Rome around 300-400 BC along with a performance by Etruscans. The actors did get paid though. Since they got paid, wealthy nobles would typically pay for the actor's…

Tragedy has become a large part of English literature. Tragedy started early dating back to the ancient Greeks. It is a piece that contains strong, powerful, brave, noble characters who challenges barrier and disadvantages. This alone is an embodiment of a tragic story. A person writes tragedies because it allows readers to experience their emotions, and experience they never felt before actually happening to them. The text gives an outlook and creates an image in your head. It is an emotional…

mythology, mainly mythical heroes that would let their pride, or hubris, get in the way and cause them many obstacles in their life. While the comedies would be related to current events, they would criticize the people and ideas using sarcasm. The Greek Dramas followed many themes and the play would have a moral that would involve how life should be lived by an individual in that time. Modern theatre plays are more free, they can have both tragedy and comedy features, as well as music, creating…

Thalia Bonilla IB English Mr. Dineen 24 February 2016 Reader Response #5: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman · Use at least two pieces of evidence to support your claims. · Make clear references to literary conventions and their effects throughout your paragraph. Given the initial staging and/or reading of the production notes, cite and explain the importance of one of the staging elements in the play. Ex. The transparent walls of the house allow characters to ignore the presence…

Every minute the Amazon Rainforest is getting abolished at a frequency of 40 football fields a minute, and 100 hundred species of organisms are becoming extinct every day.Is this a World you want to live in? In today’s standards, poetry is often overshadowed and much less spoken about than other matters. In reality, poetry is exceptionally repeatedly used in Songs, Raps, and pop music. Poetry has not declined, but has expanded and evolved into a diverse range of songs/poems, as listed music…

Midsummer Night’s Dream Response/Lit-Crit Paper In the early Eighteenth-Century, drama transitioned into "Sentimental Comedy" which embraces high moral ground, sex, and satire. The audience is moved not only to laughter, but also to sympathetic tears. While the Restoration Period in England literature was undergoing a shift towards highlighting the middle class and poor, not every critic was enthusiastic for the new writing style, one William Shakespeare excelled at. Samuel Pepys, an English…

interesting background which is believed to have an effect on his later writings and observations. He was a prior politician, priest, and military leader. In his piece, Antigone, Sophocles focuses on humanism and the achievements of man. He used this drama to explore the dilemmas in human existence, but in turn shows how powerful man can be. Sophocles begins the chorus of this piece by proclaiming how wonderful the…

Character (MILDRED HAYES) In the Movie “The Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” I cannot overlook the stiff and hard persona of Mildred Hayes, the bereaved mother who has had it with the failure of the local police department to find the person (s) responsible for raping and murdering her daughter. Of all the Characters in the movie, I think Mildred was perhaps the worst, albeit a victim of a crime. I find Mildred interesting because she’s the only one that stood out to me. Mildred, in my view…