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Comic Effects in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Court are called Algernon" (Wilde 76). Here, Wilde is clearly poking fun at the aristocracys preoccupation with names and appeara...

Oleanna by David Mamet

In five pages this play in three acts is analyzed in its representation of themes emotional warfare, power, and sex....

Blood Relations by Sharon Pollock

This paper consists of five pages and discusses Canadian playwright Sharon Pollock's play about Lizzie Borden entitled Blood Relat...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House as a Reflection of 19th Century Social Issues

In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....

An Analysis of Eh, Joe

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

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....

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...

Nationalism and Soccer

and "when athletes from different nations compete and their fans support them, there emerges a bond that can be understood only wi...

William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Aphra Behn's Rover

but she keeps her emotions in check so that she can carry off her masquerade as a man. When Rosalind confronts the Dukes accusat...

David Auburn: "Proof"

obviously cannot be separated from the field of mathematics. How do the specific techniques and rigors of higher-order mathematic...

Evaluating Hamlet

Ophelia: More than Just Friends? A Palace Source Tells All"). Then there is also the almost-incestuous relationship between Haml...

Trifles

death, thus solving the conflict for themselves. The men, however, do not know the truth and the women will not tell them so for t...

Kingship and Leadership in Shakespeare’s Richard II

years because he seems to care a bit for the father of Henry, John of Gaunt. In these respects one can see that Richard II may wel...

The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

Very quickly in the story the arrival of a ghost appears and this is powerfully connected to the relationship between Berniece and...

A Review of Dancing at Lughnasa

Michael is illegitimate, a revelation that he accepts cheerfully-a very strange thing for a Catholic priest to do (Dancing at Lugh...

Analysis of Oedipus the King by Sophocles

truth about who killed his wifes husband is being uncovered. He shows himself again as noble by insisting that justice be done and...

Terence's Play Phormio

the play provides an ideal introduction to the genre of New Comedy. What makes the Phormio unique amongst Terences works is the ce...

LeRoi Jones's Dutchman

will sit and pay close attention, is the fact that the audience knows that this woman, Lula, has some motive in mind. It is the 19...

Existentialism and No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

In four pages this paper discusses Sartre's assertion 'Hell is other people' within the context of the existentialism of his play ...

Flare Path by Terence Rattigan and Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw Compared

the romantic featured true-life situations but preferred a more sentimental or whimsical interpretation of the subject matter. Bu...

Libby Mulitz's 'Flying Off Over Office Politics'

and these may be utilized by any company executive, and certainly these may be helpful. Clear and concise communication seems to b...

Ben Jonson's Play Epicoene, the Silent Woman

"The stylish young Ned Clerimont, apparently drunk, stumbles in, sips a cup of who-knows-what, sips another cup, and then proceeds...

Role of Religion in 2 Irish Plays

the Virgin Mary are frequently called upon in the characters speech to protect them and deliver their society from the hatred that...

Oresteia

the thematic meaning by indulging in revenge and violence, the characters are behaving more in terms of instinctual, animal behavi...

Bernini's "David" And "Apollo And Daphne" - Baroque

particularly influential to this cultural understanding; the functions this artisan had upon the changing landscape was to demonst...

Timothy Braun/Angelina

that while the boys have the bodies of adults, including the raging hormonal sexuality of adolescence, cognitively there is still ...

George Bernard Shaw's 'Mrs. Warren's Profession'

poverty and very dependant and aware of the dangers associated with honest work such as the dangers of lung disease and premature ...

Sociology Of Drama And Theater

impossible for women to live independently. One of their options was to become successful and financially independent prostitutes....

Literature of the Renaissance and the Works of Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, and John Milton

social context, with various issues raised and moral judgments questioned by the readers and listeners (Aughterson 274). In Engla...

Spread of Christianity and Development of Trade/Capitalism as Two Significant Contributions of the Middle Ages ‘Gothic World’ to the Phenomenon of Civilization

and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...