YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Works of Maverick Playwright Sam Shepard
Essays 121 - 150
The Crucible The student requesting this particular paper notes (the source of this quote is unknown), "One is to believe that r...
plays for the stage. Before this time, he had acted and directed several inconsequential plays and had written a few short stories...
plays we start with "Henry IV" part I. The first mention of "tavern" is in scene II where Falstaff is joking, presumably, with Hen...
journalism at the University of Michigan in 1934 to 1935 and continued to work as a reported and a night editor for The Michigan D...
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 ...
but on their bonds with other men who guarantee their honor and reputation" (Bloom 89). This is demonstrated through the characte...
centuries, Irish became the language of a disenfranchised people. It reentered the lives of the privileged classes with the advent...
a director and actor, as well as a playwright. He is also one of the co-directors of Vancouvers theater group, The Electric Compan...
readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...
touch his heart. Various plot complications ensue and the political and social forces that are forcing her father to this awful d...
since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...
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 ...
of his play, rolling several historical Herods into one and using the biblical narrative as the slenderest of bases for his plot" ...
deeply offends the District Officer and his wife, Britons named Simon and Jane Parkinson (Scott, 2006). Things are further compl...
working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...
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...
best understood within the context of how many English couples regarded marriage during this time. Marriages were not love matche...
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...
excuses for that sons pathological misbehavior; he virtually ignores his second son; hes a real bastard to friends, neighbors and ...
function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...
(Jokinen). He died on August 6, 1637. It has been noted that Jonsons best work is characterized by his "wide and penetrating ob...
pub" (Russell). In this we see a bit of a condescending attitude towards his wife, and an attitude that speaks of exasperation to ...
but Simons characterization that is the source of the humor. Similarly, in Barefoot in the Park, young newlyweds adjust to marri...
"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...
(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...
the direction of Winnies loneliness becomes clear. Willie is, as far as we can see, the only person in her life. She desperately...
active service with the Republicans, though not as a soldier but as a medical corpsman (Donahue). Although such a position was a "...
In four pages this essay contrasts the styles of these Greek playwrights from the classical era within the context of Sophocles'...
scars that never healed (Hansberry, 52). Lorraine felt that the scars were academic as well; she was convinced that there ...
In seventeen pages this paper focuses upon Hughie and The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill in terms of how the playwright employs r...