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Death of a Salesman South Coast Repertory Theatre Performing Arts Review

In four pages this version of Arthur Miller's play is reviewed in terms of Willy Loman's character development and simplistic sett...

Nurse Characterization in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

In five pages a character analysis of the Nurse and her role in the play are examined....

Oleanna by David Mamet

and critic Thomas Eagleton as a "modernist literary work," meaning that the content is purposely left minimal so that it is up to ...

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Symbolism

In five pages this paper examines how within her award winning play Lorraine Hansberry makes the most of the symbolism literary de...

Renaissance Themes

rather than singular pleasures. He had an obligation to answer grievances, to hear both sides of a story and to reach some type o...

Identity in The Maids by Jean Genet

The identity concept is explored in this analysis of The Maids, a play by Jean Genet in a paper consisting of seven pages....

Macbeth, An Address of Eight Specific Questions on this Classic Play

This ten page paper addresses eight specific quesitons on Shakespeare's play. Two sources....

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

In a paper consisting of five pages the playwright's life is discussed and then his play is examined in order to determine that 'U...

Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings

The bleakness of the apartment also reflects the prospective bleakness of the survivors lives, since both have been left to cope w...

An Introduction to Robert Bolt's A Man for All Season

In this paper consisting of ten pages the play that explores Sir Thomas More's conflict with Henry VIII and his conscience are dis...

The Good Woman of Setzuan Observed by the Gods

In 6 pages this play is discussed. There is 1 source cited in the bibliography....

Plays of William Shakespeare

In seven pages this paper discusses Shakespeare's plays in an analysis of some characters, nature significance, and the 'play with...

The Conduct of Life by Maria Irene Fornes

off water. There is a visceral nature to her work; one that looks you right in the face, and asks "whatta you gonna do now tough ...

David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize Winning Play Turned Movie Glengarry Glen Ross

In five pages this paper discusses the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's play in terms of plot and performance....

Links Between William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Othello

We know that Iago is considered one of Shakespeares worst villains and, John is a pale version by comparison; but perhaps we are s...

Shakespearean Conflict Analysis

of honor. Macbeth is one of Shakespeares darkest and most intriguing plays- a tragedy of ego, obsession, guilt and ambition. Ma...

John Osborne's Play Look Back In Anger

In three pages Osborne's play is critically analyzed. There is 1 source listed in the bibliography....

An Analysis of Eh, Joe

A 5 analysis of the television play Eh Joe by Samuel Beckett. 5 sources....

Play in Therapy with Children

In a paper of seven pages, the writer focuses on different approaches to therapeutic play with children in order to build trust. ...

Portrayal of Women in Two Play by G.B. Shaw

that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...

"Dinner with Friends," Margulies

This essay presents a summation and analysis of Donald Margulies's two-act play "Dinner with Friends." Eight pages in length, one ...

Suzan-Lori Parks Pulitzer Prize Winner

Susan-Lori Parks a writer who has written in different genres. Her play, Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer prize along with other a...

Aristophanes and Using Comedy as Commentary in The Clouds and Lysistrata

In twelve pages this paper considers how Aristophanes criticized the politics, morality, and society of his time through the use o...

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

In five pages this paper argues that this comedy by Aristophanes is an example of feminism with its strong and intelligent female ...

Sex as Power in Relationships in 'The Wife of Bath' and 'Lysistrata'

condemned; the Apostle said that my husband would be my debtor, and I have power over his body. Three of my husbands were good an...

Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Tartuffe by Moliere the Uses of Humor

terms to refer to exaggeration and understatement within the realm of comedy. As far as I can determine, both Moliere and Aristoph...

Comparison Between The Trojan Women by Euripides and Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Women, the impact of these unequal gender scales on women are examined and depicted very differently, for in one, the women are ac...

Characters and Their Motives in Oedipus

difference between the two representations. When one is cast forward by way of determinism, it is as though one has absolutely no...

Theater History

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

Greco Roman Literary Works and Heroism

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...