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American Family as Viewed by Playwright Sam Shepard

understanding of family life, much as do shows like The Simpsons and Malcolm in the Middle. Families are not always polite to one ...

African American Women Playwrights

In five pages the ways in which black female playwrights confront sexist behaviors and conventional stereotypes in their female ch...

Works of Playwright Lillian Hellman

thoughts of people, drawing on their most hideous features. These points come through clearly in both The Childrens Hour and The L...

Works of Maverick Playwright Sam Shepard

In seven pages this essay considers playwright Sam Shepard's life, his unique style of writing and offers abstracts of his plays F...

Feminist Playwright Caryl Churchill

In six pages the gender issues featured in Caryl Churchill's plays for BBC radio during the 1960s are examined. Two sources are c...

Playwright and Actor Moliere

In ten pages the life and times of this renowned 17th century French playwright and actor are recounted. Ten sources are cited in...

American Playwright Mercy Otis Warren

In five pages this paper discusses early American playwright Mercy Otis Warren in an overview of how she shook up the social statu...

Two Playwrights Look at Death

so gifted and so special that the world will fall at their feet simply because they exist (Miller). As a result, Biff and Happy (p...

Life of Playwright William Shakespeare

17-18). It is probable that their sensitive son was aware of his parents marital discord, but losing himself in books was never a...

Biography of American Playwright Romulus Linney

in the North Carolina mountains in the 1840s, is a "Gothic tale of terror and pagan violence" (Walser 284). Linney has written th...

Educational Analysis

While she maintains the separation of teacher and pupil, at the same time she is able to transcend that barrier to reside within t...

Robert Middlemass: Stage/Film Actor and Playwright

in on various theatrical stages), Middlemass racked up an impressive list of stage credits. Some of his early Broadway appearance...

Using Comedy To Explore Social Issues

great deal of the humor arises from the plays comic premise, which calls tends to suggest that the title of the work is something ...

Eminem's Music

thing, Eminem has an "intuitive sense of how to flow smoothly from the measured cadence of ordinary speech to the discursive inten...

Bach and Handel, Their Musical Languages

his era, as his compendium of work transverses boundaries, "fusing the three great national traditions of his time," which are "G...

2 Very Different Popular Songs

holding this note, the music modulates to F and then back to C as the rest of the word is sung to descending tones. The rhythm is ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 "...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Eugene O'Neill's Works and Their Recurring Themes

In seventeen pages this paper focuses upon Hughie and The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill in terms of how the playwright employs r...

Feminist Symbolism in the Play Trifles by Susan Glaspell

that women need to learn to take themselves seriously, and women, through a new viewpoint they need to come together in order to c...