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Unity by Kevin Kerr

a director and actor, as well as a playwright. He is also one of the co-directors of Vancouvers theater group, The Electric Compan...

'Other' in Salome by Oscar Wilde

of his play, rolling several historical Herods into one and using the biblical narrative as the slenderest of bases for his plot" ...

Society's Cruelty in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Crucible The student requesting this particular paper notes (the source of this quote is unknown), "One is to believe that r...

Harold Pinter's Betrayal

plays for the stage. Before this time, he had acted and directed several inconsequential plays and had written a few short stories...

Family Theme in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

excuses for that sons pathological misbehavior; he virtually ignores his second son; hes a real bastard to friends, neighbors and ...

Oedipus and Othello

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

Comedies of Neil Simon

but Simons characterization that is the source of the humor. Similarly, in Barefoot in the Park, young newlyweds adjust to marri...

Glass Fragility in Tennessee Williams' Play The Glass Menagerie

"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

Theme of Education in Willy Russell's Educating Rita

pub" (Russell). In this we see a bit of a condescending attitude towards his wife, and an attitude that speaks of exasperation to ...

Iphigenia Characterization by Euripides

touch his heart. Various plot complications ensue and the political and social forces that are forcing her father to this awful d...

Spying and Eavesdropping in the Works of William Shakespeare

readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...

Analysis of the Opening Section of A Dream Play by August Strindberg

the child of a god. She has been sent by her father to live among the mortal people. Following his wishes she meets and marries a ...

Preserving Irish and Douglas Hyde

centuries, Irish became the language of a disenfranchised people. It reentered the lives of the privileged classes with the advent...

Nothing and Something in “King Lear”

each of them to tell how much she loves him. Goneril goes first and gushes all over the old man, telling him she loves him so much...

Buero Vallejo: “Story of a Stairway”

active service with the Republicans, though not as a soldier but as a medical corpsman (Donahue). Although such a position was a "...

Marriage in William Wycherley’s Restoration Comedy, The Country Wife

best understood within the context of how many English couples regarded marriage during this time. Marriages were not love matche...

Portraying Character on Screen

of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...

Husband and Wife Oedipus and Jocasta in Oedipus the King by Sophocles and The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau

(La Machine Infernale), Oedipus is a man of great looks with an ego to match, but of what could best be described as limited intel...

Soyinka: "Death and the King's Horseman"

deeply offends the District Officer and his wife, Britons named Simon and Jane Parkinson (Scott, 2006). Things are further compl...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

Luigi Pirandello, Madness, and the Plays Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV

another prosperous sulfur merchant, culminated in their marriage and the birth of a daughter (Coppolillo 73). But whatever domest...

Ben Jonson and His Influence

(Jokinen). He died on August 6, 1637. It has been noted that Jonsons best work is characterized by his "wide and penetrating ob...

Contemporary Drama/2 New Plays & Aristotle

working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...

Imagery and Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...

The Theatre of Ancient Greece

This 12 page paper gives an overview of the history of the theatre in ancient Greece and the connection with mythology. This paper...

Shakespeare and Jonson and Elizabethan Clowns

This essay pertains to William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Ben Jonson's "Every Man in His Humor," and how each p...

Hero and Leander/Marlowe

of the youth that generate that this assessment, that is, his pleasant smile, his eyes, etc. There is a allusion to Narcissus, who...

MARSHA WARREN AND THE TROUBLED LEARNERS

consistently fight to get things done, and who goes through turmoil every day. She needs to remember that her class is not the adv...

The Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren

any aspect of the church that is antithetical to the purposes of the church should be eradicated. Essentially, Challies points out...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Warren Buffett

22.2% compounded annually" (Buffet, 2004). Peter Lynch called Buffet "the best investor in history" (Simon, 2001, p. 45). Given t...