The Structure of King Lear - A2EnglishLearningCommunity2010
... shapes the progress from climax to catastrophe may take different forms according to the ingenuity of the playwright, but it can never lead to a different fate for the protagonist. Part of the test of the playwright's art, then, is his manipulation of suspense by dramatic action between climax and c ...
... shapes the progress from climax to catastrophe may take different forms according to the ingenuity of the playwright, but it can never lead to a different fate for the protagonist. Part of the test of the playwright's art, then, is his manipulation of suspense by dramatic action between climax and c ...
to view the Know-The-Show guide!
... flow and emerge with deserved brilliance for the modern ear. Language, sentence and thought structure, slang, and so much else have changed over the centuries since the play was penned, that even though it is written in our tongue, it strains that assertion. Add Ben Jonson’s particular writing style ...
... flow and emerge with deserved brilliance for the modern ear. Language, sentence and thought structure, slang, and so much else have changed over the centuries since the play was penned, that even though it is written in our tongue, it strains that assertion. Add Ben Jonson’s particular writing style ...
Movies And/As Literature - Digital Thesis and Project Room (DTPR)
... the staging conditions imposed particular demands on the playwright, requirements which are accommodated, even capitalized in the play’s setting and dialogue (Dessen 88). In Romeo and Juliet at several points when the staging is particularly complex the language becomes vividly descriptive, helping ...
... the staging conditions imposed particular demands on the playwright, requirements which are accommodated, even capitalized in the play’s setting and dialogue (Dessen 88). In Romeo and Juliet at several points when the staging is particularly complex the language becomes vividly descriptive, helping ...
Dialogues - Theatre for a New Audience
... women, beginning with the infant’s dependence on maternal women for life and nurture—an early dependence seen by him as forerunner to the later sexual humiliations of the adult male. Protestant marriage theory could not coexist. From the tension between them, the double plots of Much Ado About Nothi ...
... women, beginning with the infant’s dependence on maternal women for life and nurture—an early dependence seen by him as forerunner to the later sexual humiliations of the adult male. Protestant marriage theory could not coexist. From the tension between them, the double plots of Much Ado About Nothi ...
SOME NECESSARY QUESTION OF THE PLAY
... finished draft of Hamlet. It is the basis for nearly all modern editions, even though it lacks a speech found only in the former: “How all occasions do inform against me […].”16 Perhaps Shakespeare cut the speech as unnecessary, or added it later in revision. Editors will normally include any additi ...
... finished draft of Hamlet. It is the basis for nearly all modern editions, even though it lacks a speech found only in the former: “How all occasions do inform against me […].”16 Perhaps Shakespeare cut the speech as unnecessary, or added it later in revision. Editors will normally include any additi ...
THE OCCULT AS A DRAMATIC DEVICE IN SHAKESPEAREAN
... were well established by the time he appeared on the historical scene, and it is inevitable that he would work within the framework of a continuing tradition, even though in the end he might modify or depart from the tradition. ...
... were well established by the time he appeared on the historical scene, and it is inevitable that he would work within the framework of a continuing tradition, even though in the end he might modify or depart from the tradition. ...
othello - The Film Space
... on things they have seen before. In a very simple conflict between ‘good’ and evil’ filmmakers link good with light and evil with darkness. In the early Westerns the audience knew that the hero was dressed in light colours and the villain was dressed in dark colours. Darth Vader in Stars Wars is dre ...
... on things they have seen before. In a very simple conflict between ‘good’ and evil’ filmmakers link good with light and evil with darkness. In the early Westerns the audience knew that the hero was dressed in light colours and the villain was dressed in dark colours. Darth Vader in Stars Wars is dre ...
ASIDES production program - Shakespeare Theatre Company
... a dorm council, I ultimately learned the hard way why there is not more outdoor drama in New York in late April. “Tempest” doesn’t describe the half of it. But that is a story for another time. I feel deeply fortunate to take on this play a second time, from a more mature perspective and at a distin ...
... a dorm council, I ultimately learned the hard way why there is not more outdoor drama in New York in late April. “Tempest” doesn’t describe the half of it. But that is a story for another time. I feel deeply fortunate to take on this play a second time, from a more mature perspective and at a distin ...
Othello - Denver Center for the Performing Arts
... For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards to personal history. There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works and various legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there are many ga ...
... For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards to personal history. There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works and various legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there are many ga ...
The Comedy of Errors
... • The students will know the definition of the literary term “Dramatic Irony” • The students will write a scene with Dramatic Irony • The students will identify Dramatic Irony in TV shows and movies Facts: Dramatic Irony occurs when the audience is aware of information in the story that is unknown t ...
... • The students will know the definition of the literary term “Dramatic Irony” • The students will write a scene with Dramatic Irony • The students will identify Dramatic Irony in TV shows and movies Facts: Dramatic Irony occurs when the audience is aware of information in the story that is unknown t ...
By William Shakespeare - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
... a line, suggesting that she is impassioned and saying only a portion of what she is thinking. Theseus, however, completes her line and restores the iambic pattern, indicating his authority and the fact that he is, at this point in the play, literally overbearing her will. Notice that while the blank ...
... a line, suggesting that she is impassioned and saying only a portion of what she is thinking. Theseus, however, completes her line and restores the iambic pattern, indicating his authority and the fact that he is, at this point in the play, literally overbearing her will. Notice that while the blank ...
Annual Review 2015 - Shakespeare`s Globe
... Every summer, for the past 18 years, the Globe Theatre has been the daily focus of a community brought together by thoughts, feelings and laughter gathered around this beautiful reconstruction of Shakespeare’s stage. There is no better place for the discussion and artistic expression of big ideas an ...
... Every summer, for the past 18 years, the Globe Theatre has been the daily focus of a community brought together by thoughts, feelings and laughter gathered around this beautiful reconstruction of Shakespeare’s stage. There is no better place for the discussion and artistic expression of big ideas an ...
BELL SHAKESPEARE MACBETH – VCE Theatre Studies Education
... What has been your approach to adapting Macbeth for the stage? It is an adaptation (like every production) – the script is a blueprint and needs to be interpreted on stage. There is one specific constraint on this production in that I have been given a ninety minute boundary! There are some logistic ...
... What has been your approach to adapting Macbeth for the stage? It is an adaptation (like every production) – the script is a blueprint and needs to be interpreted on stage. There is one specific constraint on this production in that I have been given a ninety minute boundary! There are some logistic ...
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... of North’s work, their anonymous publication is a particularly complex topic, involving multiple interlocking issues. These issues include the status of plays written for the new public theatres, the status of plays compared to poetry, the market for playbooks, the ownership of plays, the convention ...
... of North’s work, their anonymous publication is a particularly complex topic, involving multiple interlocking issues. These issues include the status of plays written for the new public theatres, the status of plays compared to poetry, the market for playbooks, the ownership of plays, the convention ...
Shakespeare Made in Canada - Canadian Adaptations of
... most coveted prizes in the history of theatre in Canada. William Hutt, Canada’s most prominent and experienced classical Shakespearean actor, donated his papers to the L. W. Conolly Theatre Archives. As a vocal advocate for the development of a uniquely Canadian theatre tradition, Hutt was immediate ...
... most coveted prizes in the history of theatre in Canada. William Hutt, Canada’s most prominent and experienced classical Shakespearean actor, donated his papers to the L. W. Conolly Theatre Archives. As a vocal advocate for the development of a uniquely Canadian theatre tradition, Hutt was immediate ...
of Playwrights and Plays
... is in harmony with, other costumes on the stage or the general decor of the scene. Perhaps the degree of brightness or shadow surrounding an actor will assist in forming or intensifying an impression. This is true also of the colour-tone of a scene, the colour of the lighting in conjunction with the ...
... is in harmony with, other costumes on the stage or the general decor of the scene. Perhaps the degree of brightness or shadow surrounding an actor will assist in forming or intensifying an impression. This is true also of the colour-tone of a scene, the colour of the lighting in conjunction with the ...
Richard II - EncoreArtsSeattle.com
... One of the deep personal pleasures I get from my job is seeing the impact Shakespeare’s plays can make in the lives of young people. You may not know it, but beyond just the productions you see on our stage, we have year-round educational programming happening in the theater, in classrooms, and acro ...
... One of the deep personal pleasures I get from my job is seeing the impact Shakespeare’s plays can make in the lives of young people. You may not know it, but beyond just the productions you see on our stage, we have year-round educational programming happening in the theater, in classrooms, and acro ...
Macbeth - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
... London, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, was a bustling urban center filled with a wide variety of people and cultures. Although most life centered around making a living or going to church, the main source of diversion for Londoners was the theatre. It was a form of entertainment accessib ...
... London, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, was a bustling urban center filled with a wide variety of people and cultures. Although most life centered around making a living or going to church, the main source of diversion for Londoners was the theatre. It was a form of entertainment accessib ...
- Free Documents
... had no ownership of the plays they wrote. Once a play was sold to a company, the company owned it, and the playwright had no control over casting, performance, revision or publication. The profession of dramatist was challenging and far from lucrative. Entries in Philip Henslowes Diary show that in ...
... had no ownership of the plays they wrote. Once a play was sold to a company, the company owned it, and the playwright had no control over casting, performance, revision or publication. The profession of dramatist was challenging and far from lucrative. Entries in Philip Henslowes Diary show that in ...
The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England
... clearly a popular one—being performed by at least two different playing companies, and belonging to the small group of Elizabethan plays that were printed three times, the last nearly thirty years after the first. As Michael Egan demonstrated with persuasive bibliographic evidence, the Folio text of ...
... clearly a popular one—being performed by at least two different playing companies, and belonging to the small group of Elizabethan plays that were printed three times, the last nearly thirty years after the first. As Michael Egan demonstrated with persuasive bibliographic evidence, the Folio text of ...
- NIILM University
... suggestion of Tanner. A more critical, fastidious, handsome face, paler and colder, without Tanner‘s impetuous credulity and enthusiasm, and without a touch of his modern plutocratic vulgarity, but still a resemblance, even an identity"). The very name "John Tanner" is obviously an anglicisation of ...
... suggestion of Tanner. A more critical, fastidious, handsome face, paler and colder, without Tanner‘s impetuous credulity and enthusiasm, and without a touch of his modern plutocratic vulgarity, but still a resemblance, even an identity"). The very name "John Tanner" is obviously an anglicisation of ...
Shakespeare - Griffith University
... 1995: 29). In recent decades, the spectator or audience member has been considered an essential element within theatre. Many authors have written about theatre audiences and the important role they play in the event; they include Roger Deldime (1988), Paul Thom (1993), Susan Bennett (1997), Wilmar S ...
... 1995: 29). In recent decades, the spectator or audience member has been considered an essential element within theatre. Many authors have written about theatre audiences and the important role they play in the event; they include Roger Deldime (1988), Paul Thom (1993), Susan Bennett (1997), Wilmar S ...
Guide - Clemens Center
... Each week, a company of actors might receive, prepare, and perform a new play. Each actor had a specific type of role he played that he could perform with little rehearsal. This role was known as a “stock character.” Such characters included romantic lovers, soldiers, clowns, and female characters. ...
... Each week, a company of actors might receive, prepare, and perform a new play. Each actor had a specific type of role he played that he could perform with little rehearsal. This role was known as a “stock character.” Such characters included romantic lovers, soldiers, clowns, and female characters. ...
As You Like It - Bell Shakespeare
... The Victorians, in particular, thought of Rosalind as the picture of perfect womanhood. Essie Jenyns, who was Australia’s first really big stage star, was most popular in the role of Rosalind in productions from around 1885, and thousands of postcards of her in costume were bought by her adoring fan ...
... The Victorians, in particular, thought of Rosalind as the picture of perfect womanhood. Essie Jenyns, who was Australia’s first really big stage star, was most popular in the role of Rosalind in productions from around 1885, and thousands of postcards of her in costume were bought by her adoring fan ...
Sir Thomas More (play)
Sir Thomas More is an Elizabethan play and a dramatic biography based on particular events in the life of the Catholic martyr Thomas More, who rose to become the Lord Chancelor of England during the Reign of Henry VIII. The play is considered to be written by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle and revised by several writers. It is particularly notable for a three page handwritten revision that is considered by many scholars to be by William Shakespeare.This play is not simply biographical, because, for example, significant facts of More’s life are not described: There is no mention of his literary career, his book Utopia, or the dispute between Henry VIII and the Pope in Rome. Also the life of More is at times expanded beyond what actually occurred and beyond the sources that were used, in order to suit the drama. What the play is about has been debated, but the issues revolve around obedience to the crown and rule of law, particularly when a populace becomes stirred up in an anti-alien fervor. Even More must obey; when he doesn’t he loses his life.There are three primary actions in the drama: First is the uprising of 1517 known as Ill May Day and More’s quelling of the rioters. Second is the portrayal of More’s private life, his family and friendships, demonstrating his generosity, kindness, and wit. Third is his service as Privy Councillor and Lord Chamberlain, and the principled stand he took in opposition to the king, which leads to More’s execution.The particular articles More refuses to sign are never described, so the play avoids the specific conflict that occurred between the church in Rome and the English Church, and so then the story can focus on the issue of freedom of an individual conscience from worldly authority. This explains why Munday, who fought against the Catholic Church, would be an author of a play that vindicates More, a Catholic martyr. Munday’s abiding interest, as demonstrated in his other plays, was in speaking out against attacks on an individual’s freedom, attacks that came from both church and state.Considered in terms of theatrical performance, it is seen as effective and dramatic in the scenes dealing with the rioting, it is warm and human when dealing with his private life, and it is sympathetic and admiring as More sticks to his principles in the conclusion of the play. It is considered to be the best of the dramatic biographies that were written in Elizabethan times. Even with these qualities it would not have attracted as much interest if it were not for the association this play has with Shakespeare.The original manuscript, involving so many revisions, has reinforced the incorrect idea that the play has been pieced together or is in poor condition. Instead, the revisions should be considered in recognizable theatrical terms as a script’s natural progression towards its being readied for production.The original manuscript is a handwritten text, now owned by the British Library. The manuscript is notable for the light it sheds on the collaborative nature of Elizabethan drama and theatrical censorship of the era. In 1871, Richard Simpson proposed that some additions to the play had been written by Shakespeare, and a year later James Spedding, editor of the works of Sir Francis Bacon, while rejecting some of Simpson's suggestions, supported the attribution to Shakespeare of the passage credited to Hand D. In 1916, the paleographer Sir Edward Maunde Thompson published a minute analysis of the handwriting of the addition and judged it to be Shakespeare's. The case was strengthened with the publication of Shakespeare's Hand in the Play of Sir Thomas More (1923) by five noted scholars who analysed the play from multiple perspectives, all of which led to the same affirmative conclusion. A second significant gathering of scholars to consider Sir Thomas More grew out of a seminar that was held during the meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America at Ashland, Oregon in 1983. It resulted in a second book of essays, eight by eight different authors, that was published as Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More; Essays on the Play and its Shakespearean Interest. It is a comprehensive study of the manuscript, and states that it appears more likely than ever that Shakespeare did indeed contribute to the revision of this play. This would make it the only surviving manuscript text written by Shakespeare. Although some dissenters remain, the attribution has been generally accepted since the mid-20th century and most authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works, including The Oxford Shakespeare, include the play. It was performed with Shakespeare's name included amongst the authors by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2005.