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Medea Characterization by Euripides

In three pages this research paper contends that the playwright conceived of Medea as a character that would inspire sympathy in a...

Sam Shepard

In seven pages this paper examines the plays Fool for Love and True West in a consideration of the unique writing style of playwri...

Sticks and Bones by David Rabe

In five pages Rabe's Tony Award Winning ode to the Vietnam War examines the unique writing style of the playwright. Nine sources ...

Authorship of Pericles

This paper consisting of five pages argues that William Shakespeare alone did not write Pericles but that it was a collaboration b...

Comparative Analysis of Macbeth and Seneca's Oedipus

In five pages the ways in which characters are utilized by the playwrights as instruments by which the audience can be manipulated...

Social Stereotyping and the Black Americans

12 pages and 9 sources. This paper considers the fact that stereotyping in the United States is common and that the stereotyping ...

19th Century Comic Techniques of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this essay compares An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest in a discussion of the comic techniques the...

Rousseau, Dobree, Congreve, and Dramatic Style

In five pages this trio of critics and playwrights are considered in terms of their differing styles and theories as reflections o...

Setting of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

himself as child was to give puppet performances, for his siblings as well as for other children in the town. Think of how a pupp...

Significance of Tavern in Parts I and II of Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare

plays we start with "Henry IV" part I. The first mention of "tavern" is in scene II where Falstaff is joking, presumably, with Hen...

Mexican Drama and Xavier Villaurrutia

to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...

Oscar Wilde's Western Theatrical Achievements

older brother Willie and younger sister Isola (Kenyon 12). When his beloved sister died at the age of ten, it was a catastrophic ...

Performance Artist Genny Lim

in regards to information on the Internet and within journals, books and magazines. Because of Lims extensive reach in regards to ...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Jealousy

but on their bonds with other men who guarantee their honor and reputation" (Bloom 89). This is demonstrated through the characte...

Oedipus and Hamlet Characterizations

his mother, he fulfills the prophesy. As Oedipus tells the story, one gets the sense that he is more than just a character. He is ...

A Study of the American Theater

- the nation then being confined largely to the east coast" (Theatre History, 2003). The four largest theatre towns were Philadel...

Portrayal of Men in Seven Guitars and Jitney by August Wilson

going, but "if that dont work, I guess Ill just run the bus line until something else happens" (Quoted in Shannon 62). Doub is a ...

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...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

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...

Oedipus and Othello

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

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" ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...