Essays Tagged: "two plays"
Revenge Conventions in Hamlet as compared to Elizabethan Conventions
nd the norms for all revenge play writers in the Renaissance era including William Shakespeare. The two most famous English revenge tragedies written in the Elizabethan era were Hamlet, written by Sha ... ethan era were Hamlet, written by Shakespeare and The Spanish Tragedy, written by Thomas Kyd. These two plays used mostly all of the Elizabethan conventions for revenge tragedies in their plays. Hamle ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
A Midsummer Night's Tragedy
comedic play has at least one humorous character, and a successful or happy ending. Comparing these two plays is useful to find how Shakespeare uses similar character types in a variety of plays, and ... . When Lysander suggests that 'One turf shall serve as a pillow for both of us, One heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one troth,' Hermia replies 'Nay, good Lysander. For my sake, my dear, Lie further of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > A Midsummer Night's Dream
COMPARISON OF WEST SIDE STORY AND ROMEO AND JULIET
Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story. There is a lot in common between the two plays Romeo And Juliet and West Side Story. The main male characters have many things in common. ... eginning of the plays, they both fall in love and end up getting killed. The difference between the two is that Toni takes place in the 1950s'', while Romeo happens in Elizabethan times (the late 1500 ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet
The Births of Kings in 'Hamlet', by William Shakespeare and 'Oedipus Rex', by Sophocles
The Birth of KingsTwo plays, 'Hamlet', written by William Shakespeare and 'Oedipus Rex', written by Sophocles share a ... that reality has broken through the illusion with less than desirable results for either. In these two plays, two kings must leave their innocence behind as the truth leads them first, to enlightenme ... he light and the darkness, the light being the truth and the darkness being the lie. Throughout the two plays we can see that both are isolated in a world of their own, completely unaware of the truth ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
Comparing Oedipus and Othello
ches to the issue of verisimilitude.The theatrical presentation of both plays are very similar. The two plays wouldboth be presented on a thrust stage, which is a platform surrounded on three sides by ... play, and not merely observinglife. Thus, the use of the thrust stage is the only similarity of the two types ofpresentation. Othello is a purely illusionistic play, whereas Oedipus Rex is one thatwhe ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Emigration: Compare and contrast the treatment of emigration and rural life in "The Country Boy" by John Murphy and "Philadelphia, Here I Come" by Brian Freill.
Ireland is too small and too boring a place to spend the rest of your life in. I will be looking at two plays which deal with emigration. The first is "The Country Boy" and the second is "Philadelphia ... both boys, there is also the promise of the family business, but it doesn't look like either of the two fathers are ready to hand over to their sons, and while Curly and Gar are both still working for ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
A comparison of "Deirdre" and "On Baile's Strand" by William Butler Yeats.
TWO SIMILAR TRAGEDIES: DEIRDRE AND ON BAILE'S STRANDDeirdre and On Baile's Strand are two plays by W ... ormation about the characters, and sets the scene at the beginning. In On Baile's Strand Yeats uses two characters, the Fool and the Blind Man, whose purpose in the play was to describe the situation ... een as clearly as the other characters.In both of the plays, the most dramatic part revolves around two things: death and the unknown. In Deirdre, Deirdre pleads with Conchubar to spare her and Naoise ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Comparative essay- Murmuring Judges (David Hare) and Measure for Measure (Shakespeare) Good for A-Level Eng Lit+Lang (theme of power).
aced. (Sir William Jones, 1835)The theme of power is addressed in different ways in each of the two plays. The title of Shakespeare's play, 'Measure for measure' is an indication for the audience ... a possible theme will be the problems with the judiciary and the effectiveness of criminal law. The two types of power addressed by the titles of the plays give just a taster of the issues of power to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
"The Glass Managerie" by John Osborne and "Look Back in Anger" by Tennessee Williams.
Compare and contrast The Glass Managerie and Look Back in AngerDuring the following passage, two plays Look Back in Anger (John Osborne) and The Glass Managerie (Tennessee Williams) will be com ... d in respect to their technical structures.Firstly in order to understand the technicalities of the two plays, a very short and brief summary of each play will be issued, starting with Look Back in An ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Tennessee Williams' Characters in "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire".
rie and A Streetcar Named Desire, a common basis can be found between many characters. Although the two plays are different in content, the characters display many of the same thoughts, morals, views, ... ned, the different, the odd, and the lonely" (Clurman 500). Williams writes, "She's older than you, two years, and nothing has happened. She just drifts along doing nothing. It frightens me terribly h ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Transformations between Hamlet and Rosencantz and Guildernstern.
ontemporary text used the earlier text to say something new? Answer the question in relation to the two prescribed texts that you have studied."The author Tom Stoppard of "Rosencrantz and Guildernster ... Death, Illusion verses reality etc. and through dramatic techniques, structure and language.In the two plays the context in which it is written in plays a large part towards the way the characters ac ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
Shakespeare's Comedy vs. Tragedy.
A comedic play has at least onehumorous character, and a successful or happy ending. Comparing thesetwo plays is useful to find how Shakespeare uses similar charactertypes in a variety of plays, and t ... nt. When Lysander suggests that"One turf shall serve as a pillow for both of us, One heart, one bed,two bosoms, and one troth," Hermia replies "Nay, good Lysander. For mysake, my dear, Lie further off ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Comparision of the tragic characters in Othello and King Lear in accordance with aspects of a tragic character.
essential to tragic characters, yet they differ in their specific actions taken.At the start of the two plays, both King Lear and Othello are presented as men of a high rank and importance. Othello is ... pite his rashness, Lear will prove to be compassionate later on in the play.The tragic flaws of the two characters are remarkably similar. Both seem to possess a certain sense of pride that leads them ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
'Antigone' by Jean Anouilh - "Analyse Anouilh's use of variety dramatic devices in his presentation of Antigone in the scenes leading up to her arrest"
s significantly similar to its original by Sophocles, there are substantial differences between the two plays. There is the chorus depicted as one person who sets the scene, the many different charact ... can only anticipate the most dramatic scene that will therefore be the confrontation between these two characters when Antigone is arrested, as their positions are conflicting. This essay is to analy ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
King lear and oedipus rex
William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex are two classic pieces of literature that are worth studying. This essay will discuss how free will and ... terature that are worth studying. This essay will discuss how free will and destiny function in the two plays. First, the plays will be introduced and analyzed separately to provide a basis for contra ... evil characters exercising their own free wills. King Lear foolishly divides up his kingdom to his two deceitful, older daughters and ignores Cordelia, his honest, dutiful daughter. The older daughte ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
An essay commenting on the musical Bouncers by John Gober. Comments on the drama, effects and touching comedy.
crets of a Friday night.John Godber along with "Bouncers" also wrote the acclaimed play "teechers". Two plays which require the actors to perform a variety of age, sex and stances; exploring the stage ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Oedipus' dislikeable qualities do not change throughout the books Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonuss
hat "looks may be deceiving." To the naked eye, it appears as though Oedipus changes throughout the two plays. However, upon further inspection, many, if not all, of the dislikeable qualities that app ... comes to see him. Yet once again, the results of Polynices' pleading are the same as Creon's. These two men, Creon and Polynices, are the brother-in-law and son, respectively, of Oedipus. Yet despite ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology
"Families" - A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
and kids or any combination of people who are usually blood related or related by marriage. In the two plays, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Shakespeare's Comedy vs. Tragedy
comedic play has at least one humorous character, and a successful or happy ending. Comparing these two plays is useful to find how Shakespeare uses similar character types in a variety of plays, and ... . When Lysander suggests that "One turf shall serve as a pillow for both of us, One heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one troth," Hermia replies "Nay, good Lysander. For my sake, my dear, Lie further of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Society in modern drama
paper I'll examine the impact of society and the projection of the playwrights on the characters of two well-known twentieth-century plays: Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, and John Osbor ... ys: Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, and John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Though the two plays might seem poles apart, because each one belongs to a different society and era, I see a r ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama