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Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Interpreting Ophelia's Madness in the Fourth Act, Fifth Scene 3 Different Ways

In nine pages this paper examines how Victorian theater actress Helena Faucit, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, and Shakespear...

19th Century Ideology and Theater

In five pages this paper discusses theater and ideology of the 19th century. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Pre Second World War to Postwar 1950s American Theatrical Progression

In ten pages this paper examines topics such as actors, costumes, and scenery in a comparison and contrast of the developments tha...

First Amendment and Pornography

In nine pages this research paper discusses the 1st Amendment and pornography in a consideration of the Paris Adult Theater v. Sla...

Artistic Contributions of Antonin Artaud

Joan at her trial before the ecclesiastical court. Much of the film is camera movement which makes not only Joans passions visibl...

English Actor John Philip Kemble's Life, Works, and Contributions

In nine pages this research paper considers the life and theatrical set contributions of Shakespearean actor and theater manager J...

Topics of Ancient Roman Architecture

major Christian sites in the Roman Empire in the 4th century, thus firmly establishing the basilica as the predominant form of Ch...

Latin American Theater, U.S. Investment, Supply and Demand

In eight pages this paper discusses supply and demand as the concept applies to Latin American theater and the investment opportun...

A Review of Timebends, the Autobiography of Playright Arthur Miller

In this six papge paper the writer explores Miller's autobiography and emphasizes his contributions to American theater. His cont...

12 Questions on Theater and Acting

In twelve pages twelve questions on acting and theater are answered with varying Hamlet interpretations between Kenneth Branagh an...

Russ McDonald's 'Presentational Theater' and William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Hamlet, and Othello

This paper consists of five pages in which Russ McDonald's 'presentational theater' theory is used to analyze illustrations from S...

American Theater and 'Method' Acting Guru Konstantin Stanislavski

In five pages this paper examines the impact of Stanislavski's 'Method' upon American theater in a consideration of playwrights Cl...

London's Globe Theater

In five pages this paper examines London's Globe Theater story from one particular point of view. Four sources are cited in the b...

American Theater in the Future

This paper examines American theater in the future in five pages. There are 8 sources cited in the bibliography....

Appia's Material Realism and Artistic Ideal

In five pages this research paper examines Appia's concepts of theater and art and considers how he idyllically staged Wagner's wo...

20th Century British Theatre History

is that of the set design and the supporting aspects of theatre production that has evolved along side the development of the writ...

Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and the 'Theatre of the Absurd'

on and allows the couple to finally kill themselves, crying "Long live the emperor!" he is unable to pass on their final, desperat...

Experiencing Invisible Theater

going on. We can be a person with a small child and we drop all our bags in the street, begging for help. We are only acting and t...

Postmodernism and Ariane Mnouschkine and Pina Bausch

discontinuity and fragmentation, as well as by an overall destructured and decentered subject (University of Colorado). H...

The Royal Family Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

between a life in the theater and the offer of a stable marriage to a sensible stockbroker. Fanny Cavendish is the family matriar...

Spanish Theater in the 17th Century

his numerous plays we see that they are love stories, farces, depictions of society, adventures, "moralizing pieces, tragedies, an...

Forum Theater Experiences

requires that the face be covered in public. Then, consider that in order to get a drivers license one is required to uncover ones...

The Open Theater Movement in Argentina

theater (Graham-Jones 7). Theater listings in the daily newspapers typically advertise fifty or sixty plays being staged at any gi...

Investigating the Concept of the Theatre of Cruelty

the aims of all serious dramatists, especially with reference to the way in which the stage becomes not only the central focus for...

Truth and Documentary Theater

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

Failed Government Funded Theater Project of the 1930s

program had fallen apart and Congress eliminated it altogether (2003). While it never lasted, the funding of the arts has alway...

Lysistrata and Pleasure

or reader cannot help but smile when Lysistrata demands the women repeat the oath: "To husband or lover Ill not open my thighs th...

Feminist Theatre as Reflected in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls

of the feminist critical theory. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting her audience to experience with her t...

The Escape or A Leap to Freedom by William Wells Brown Analyzed

days schooling in my life, I owe the public no apology for errors" (ii). Escape; or, A Leap For Freedom is a five-act play featur...

Film, Theater, and Rhetoric

both about rhetoric and about the nature of its tradition. Further still, the true rhetoric of any age and of any people is to be...