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Politics in the English Renaissance Plays

mimicry and metaphor (Braunmuller and Hattaway 93; Kennedy 64). It is interesting to note that drama was using similar tools othe...

Overview of National Black Theatre of Harlem

This essay discusses the history, cultural contributions and reputations of the National Black Theater of Harlem. Three pages in ...

Instruction and Tolkien's The Hobbit

This research paper describes five websites that pertain to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and can be used in instructing students in...

Theater Components

entertainment itself. The chorus both commented on the events and participated in them, so that it was both involved in the action...

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...

A Musical Theater History

In this paper that contains five pages the musical theater genre since the mid-1500s is considered historically in an overview of ...

African American Theater and Blues and the Influential Works of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

a line stating the mood of the singer repeated three times. The stress and variation is carried by the tune and the whole thing w...

Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett and Theater of the Absurd Perspectives

In five pages the theater of the absurd is defined with the primary emphasis being on authors Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett. F...

Throne of Blood Film by Akia Kurosawa

In five pages this paper examines Kurosawa's film within the context of the Noh traditions of theater it features. There are no o...

Independent Theater Concept

In six pages this paper discusses the concept of independent theater and how the movement evolved. Four sources are cited in the ...

American Theater and the History of 'Drag' Performance

American theater is examined in an historical overview of drag performances and their impact in a report consisting of fifteen pag...

Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht

spectator into the action, Brechts goal was to place the spectator outside the action as an observer, but one who is actively invo...

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...

Technology and Theater of the Victorian Age

In eight pages this paper discusses how Victorian theater was impacted by new technology in terms of staging and social culture. ...

Musical Theater Legend Chita Rivera

her stunning performance in Call Me Madam, many other notable roles followed. She continued to earn an outstanding reputation in ...

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...

Postmodernism and Ariane Mnouschkine and Pina Bausch

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Setting and Acting in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In this paper consisting of five pages the uses of setting and acting and how it may have either assisted or harmed the production...

Overview of Improvisational Theater

According to the Los Angeles Times (1974), "The games emerged out of necessity," Spolin said. "I didnt sit at home and dream them...

Apocolypse Now

Coppola also uses the aspect of theater, which acknowledges that each member of the audience will bring with them, to the theater,...

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 ...

Purpose of the Chorus in the Tragedy Theater of Ancient Greece

In seven pages this essay analyzes the many functions served by the Chorus in ancient Greece's tragedy theater. Three sources are...

Theater Design of Gordon Craig

in the nineteenth century traditional ideas of scenic design were rejected by artists such as Craig, who felt that scenery should ...

The Kid and Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

Women's Rights in On Liberty and The Subjection of Women by J.S. Mill

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...