Plays

In Ancient Greece (Athens), in Pericle's century (around % century BC, if I remember correctly).

Egeus, Philostrate, various Fairies including Mustardseed, Cobweb, Peaseblossom and Moth, who has only two words to say: "And I."

Portia

Villa for sale is a drama written by Sacha Guitry. In this drama Juliette puts up her villa for sale.some customers come to see the villa but they do not buy it. after almost a month, Juliette gets a call saying a lady will come to buy it. a french couple Gaston and Jeanne come to take a look at the villa. while waiting for the owner of the villa, gaston indicater that he has no intention of buying a villa.

Juliette enters and gives a complete description of the villa.after much bargaining Juliette reduces the price from 2,50,000 francks to 2,00,000 francks.

gaston doesn't agree and is about to leave when Jeanne wants to have a look around the villa. Jeanne wants to see the upper floor Gaton doesn't joins them.

Mrs al Smith arrives to look at the villa. she mistakes Gaston as the owner of the villa. She buys the villa for 3,00,000 francks.

When Jeanne returns after looking at the top floor,she indicates that she has lost the idea of buying the villa but Gaston desires to buy the villa for 2,00,000 francks.Juliette is still unaware that Gaston has sold the villa to mrs al smith. after that Gaston gets to know that MRS al simith was a thief and the cheque was duplicate and again it gose to Jeanne parrents .

SANAYA OBEROI

An allusion is a reference in literature to another piece of literature. For example, In Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis mentions H.G. Wells, author of War of the Worlds. Simply put, it is impossible to name all the allusions in all of literature.

Critically analyse the play The refund

Before 1594, when Shakespeare was not attached to any particular playing company, he sold them to any company who would buy them. Since the title page of the Quarto of Titus Andronicus names three different companies (Pembroke's, Derby's, and Sussex's), the theory is that Shakespeare sold the play originally to one of these three companies, who sold it to a second company, who then sold it to a third one.

In fact, most of the playwriting of this time worked on the following basis. A playwright would tell the manager of a company that he had an idea for a play, and if the manager liked it, he would hire the playwright to write the play, paying him part of his fee in advance. Once the play was written the playwright got the balance of the fee and the company got the play. Playwrights did not own their plays. Philip Henslowe's diary lists loads of plays for which he paid the author in advance (but none by Shakespeare).

After 1594, Shakespeare worked exclusively for the Lord Chamberlain's Men who later became the King's Men. He did not have to negotiate the sale of the plays as he was basically an employee (although also a shareholder).

She says that she will eventually get bored of Othello because he is much older then her so she will want youth.

At the end of the act, Betty and Abagail are crying out who they saw with the devil.

Sophocles most known work is Oedipus. He also wrote Antigone, Electra and Trachiniae (The Women of Trachis).

there are no scenes, only three acts.

She gave him a jar of sweet-smelling oil which prevented him from being harmed by the fire-breathing bulls.

Act I has five scenes. Act II has five also. Act III has four. Act IV has only three. And the last Act is one long scene. If you can add, you will see they add up to eighteen scenes altogether.

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He wrote Dido Queen of Carthage, Dr. Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great (Parts 1 and 2), The Massacre at Paris, The Jew of Malta, and Edward II.

The musical Cats is an ensemble piece, but Betty Buckley starred as Grizabella the Glamour Cat, who sang Cats' signature song, Memory.

All of Shakespeare's plays get performed at least occasionally, since there are Shakespeare festivals who try to perform all of the plays within five or six seasons. However, this is probably the only time you will see some of the plays performed, especially the more obscure ones like The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Troilus and Cressida, King John, Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

The more popular plays are, of course presented constantly around the world.

The Old Ship of Zion is a play by Natalia Naman. It was inspired by the historic African-American churches of Columbus, Georgia. The play will have it first professional production in August 2014.

married, but torvald treats nora like a pretty young child, not like a spouse and partner in life

There were few other entertainment options in Shakespeare's day. They had their version of reality shows in public executions, their version of self-improvement courses in sermons, their version of sports in bearbaiting and cockfights, and their version of musical theatre in masques. But for drama and comedy, there was only the theatre--no movies and no television.

There is a LOT lof blood, but you can really tell that it's fake. There is quite the amount of gore in it, and described below are several scenes(in chronological order) that include this "gore": 1.The first killing consists of Mr. Todd being blackmailed by a man from his past. After several minutes, Sweeney loses it and begins to beat the man with a hot iron tea kettle. He beats the man down to the floor and stops to realize what has happened. Meanwhile, the mans boy servent has heard. When they cut back to Mr. Todd, the body is in a trunk-almost. One hand is out and twitching showing the man is still alive. After the mans servent(who came up to see what was happening) leaves, Sweeney opens the trunk and slowly drags his razor across the mans throat, killing him. 2.The next several killings(about 6 or 7, I'm not sure) occur in one song, "Johanna, Reprise". These killing are all very similar, save a few small details. Mr. Todd sets the men down in a chair and prepares them to get a shve, like any other barber shop would. Suddenly, he brings his razor down across the throat, and copias amonts of blood shoot out. The blood is shockingly red in a nearly black and white movie. After killing the men, Mr. Todd then presses a pedal on the side of the chair that causes the chair to tip back, a trap door to open, and the bodies to fall through a schute to Mrs. Lovett's bake house, where they are baked into pies and sold to the public. 3. The third killing is the most understated killing of the whole movie; the death of the beggar woman. The beggar has suspected something going on, and gone into Mr. Todd's shop. The judge, the man he was trying to kill in the first place, is coming, and, distracted, Mr. Todd kills her. The blood comes straight down like a waterfall, much less dramatic than the previous killing, which included blood shooting out at least 6 feet. :) 4. The judge is next. Mr. Todd sets him up as if he were any other customer, and then, after brief dialoge(watch the movie folks!), Mr. Todd proceeds to stab him repeatedly in the side of the neck. Blood shoots out all over Sweeney and the window behind him. When the judge still lives(for some unknown reason...), Mr. Todd slits his throat, causing even more blood. The judge is sent down the chute, end scene. 5.In the basment, the judge is still freaking alive, even after being stabbed in the neck, having his throat slit, and being sent down a long tube and landing on his head. He dies eventually though. Sweeney sees the beggar woman, who he realizes is his wife. He didn't know she was still alve and is horrorfied to find that he killed her. When he realizes that Mrs. Lovett lied to him about her death, he starts to sind and dance manically with her working his way toward the bake oven. He finally throws her in, and she is shown burning to death while Sweeney watches and prevents her from getting out to safety. 6.Remember the boy? The servent, well, he had begun to think of Mrs. Lovett as a mother. After watching Sweeney kill her, he comes out of his hiding place. Sweeney is kneeling on the floor cradling his wifes body, singing to her. Toby, the servent, picks up his razor, and slits Sweeney's throat. Sweeney bleeds onto his wife, and the final shot of the film is Mr. Todd cradling his wife in a pool of his own blood. End scene. So the movie isn't really that bad, but if the sight of blood makes you faint, I suggest you deal with it and watch the movie; and yes, it is a musical.

The earliest known use of the phrase "off with his head" appears to come from Shakespeare. Queen Margaret says it in Henry VI and Richard says it in Richard III.

The phrase was popularised by its appearance in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, in which the Queen of Hearts says it numerous times.

It is, of course, a reference to execution by means of decapitation.

Themes

Alienation and Loneliness

Jimmy Porter spoke for a large segment of the British population in 1956 when he ranted about his alienation from a society in which he was denied any meaningful role. Although he was educated at a "white-tile" university, a reference to the newest and least prestigious universities in the United Kingdom, the real power and opportunities were reserved for the children of the Establishment, those born to privilege, family connections, and entree to the "right" schools. Part of the "code" of the Establishment was the "stiff upper lip," that reticence to show or even to feel strong emotions. Jimmy's alienation from Alison comes precisely because he cannot break through her "cool," her unwillingness to feel deeply even during sexual intercourse with her husband. He berates her in a coarse attempt to get her to strike out at him, to stop "sitting on the fence" and make a full commitment to her real emotions; he wants to force her to feel and to have vital life. He calls her "Lady Pusillanimous" because he sees her as too cowardly to commit to anything. Jimmy is anxious to give a great deal and is deeply angry because no one seems interested enough to take from him, including his wife. He says, "My heart is so full, I feel ill - and she wants peace!"

Anger and Hatred

Jimmy Porter operates out of a deep well of anger. His anger is directed at those he loves because they refuse to have strong feelings, at a society that did not fulfill promises of opportunity, and at those who smugly assume their places in the social and power structure and who do not care for others. He lashes out in anger because of his deeply felt helplessness. When he was ten years old he watched his idealist father dying for a year from wounds received fighting for democracy in the Spanish Civil War, his father talking for hours, "pouring out all that was left of his life to one bewildered little boy." He says, "You see, I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it."

Apathy and Passivity

Although Alison is the direct target of Jimmy's invective, her apathy and passivity are merely the immediate representation of the attitudes that Jimmy sees as undermining the whole of society. It is the complacent blandness of society that infuriates Jimmy. When speaking of Alison's brother Nigel, he says, "You've never heard so many well-bred commonplaces coming from beneath the same bowler hat." The Church, too, comes under attack in part because it has lost relevance to contemporary life. For Helena it spells a safe habit, one that defines right and wrong for her - although she seems perfectly willing to ignore its strictures against adultery when it suits her. Jimmy sees the Church as providing an easy escape from facing the pain of living in the here and now - and thus precluding any real redemption. Of course, Jimmy has also slipped into a world of sameness as illustrated by the three Sunday evenings spent reading the newspapers and even the direct replacement of Alison at the ironing board with Helena. Deadly habit is portrayed as insidious.

Class Conflict

Jimmy comes from the working class and although some of his mother's relatives are "pretty posh," Cliff tells Alison that Jimmy hates them as much as he hates her family. It is the class system, with its built-in preferential treatment for those at the top and exclusion from all power for those at the bottom, that makes Jimmy's existence seem so meaningless. He has a university degree, but it is not from the "right" university. It is Nigel, the "straight-backed, chinless wonder" who went to Sandhurst, who is stupid and insensitive to the needs of others, who has no beliefs of his own, who is already a Member of Parliament, who will "make it to the top." Alison's father, Colonel Redfern, is not shown unsympathetically, but her mother is portrayed as a class-conscious monster who used every tactic she could to prevent Alison from marrying Jimmy. The only person for whom Jimmy's love is apparent is Hugh's working-class mother. Jimmy likes Cliff because, as Cliff himself says, "I'm common."

Identity Crisis

While Jimmy harangues everyone around him to open themselves to honest feeling, he is trapped in his own problems of social identity. He doesn't seem to fit in anywhere. As Colonel Redfern points out, operating a sweet-stall seems an odd occupation for an educated young man. Jimmy sees suffering the pain of life as the only way to find, or "earn," one's true identity. Alison does finally suffer the immeasurable loss of her unborn child and comes back to Jimmy, who seems to embrace her. Helena discovers that she can be happy only if she lives according to her perceived principles of right and wrong. Colonel Redfern is caught out of his time. The England he left as a young army officer no longer exists. Jimmy calls him "just one of those sturdy old plants left over from the Edwardian Wilderness that can't understand why the sun isn't shining anymore," and the Colonel agrees. Cliff does seem to have a strong sense of who he is, accepts that, and will move on with his life.

Sexism

A contemporary reading of Look Back in Anger contains inherent assumptions of sexism. Jimmy Porter seems to many to be a misogamist and Alison a mere cipher struggling to view the world through Jimmy's eyes.

While worrying about what might go wrong if she takes the Friar's potion, she has a vision of waking in the crypt surrounded by the corpses of her relatives.

The soothsayer came up to Casaer from a group of crowded people and said, "Beware the Ides of March." 'Ides' is the 'middle'. SO the soothsayer told Casaer to beware the middle of March, or March 15.