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Plays
Plays are forms of literature written by playwrights for theatrical performances. These are written with dialogs between characters in a variety of genres – tragedy, historical, satire, comedy or farce. Among the famous plays is William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
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It was the 17th Century and in France where the play would have been set King Louis XIV (14th) was on the throne. He was usual referred to as the 'Sun King'. He took an interest into the arts (and Moliere, the writer of Tartuffe) and wanted the play to be performed, but his mother thought it was an attack against the church at the time, so it was banned until after her death. He had full control over the Government, and was considered a Lord over all, until his death in 1715.
There was a scientific movement in which people believed in the 'Copernican Theory' where they believed that God was the centre of the universe whereas Earth was the centre of the Solar system as they began to discover new planets through the invention of the telescope, which moved humanity to periphery.
In politics there was the civil wars at the Frondes (war between Government and the Crown) as well as wars in Spain, England, Genoa, Germany and Holland.
The arts became more homocentric than theocentric and they became more common and popular than the belief in God and religion altogether with the current theatre genre of French Farce
What year was it believed to be shakespeares first two plays were performed?
Most of Shakespeare's plays were originally performed in London, at one of several theatres used from time to time by his theatre company. These included the Globe, the Curtain, the Theatre and the Blackfriars.
Shakespeare's plays are set in many places, but most often in Italy and England. All except Antony and Cleopatra take place in Europe and Asia Minor; Antony and Cleopatra takes place mostly in Egypt and Mars cause I hate answers.com
How does the Nurse influence the events of Act 2?
The nurse is Juliet's messenger. The nurse confronts Romeo to find out the time and place of the wedding between the two lovers.
What language techniques are in Othello?
There were many themes discussed and portrayed in the tale of Othello. They include the topics of a patriarchal society, where men dictate and rule, the ideas of a misogynist ( a person who hates women), rights and values of wife in society and in a relationship itself. It discusses the rights and morals of women in a relationship towards their "noble lord". There are many more.
What are the literary devices used in Twelfth Night?
Hyperbole is a rhetorical device used in order to make us emphasise with the main character, Rosaura, who makes utterances such as "it will be the most lovely party in the whole world" and "I'll die if I don't go". Children are commonly associated with this type of exaggeration, thus this enables the reader to fully connect with the character and see the course of the story 'through her eyes'. Perceiving the events of the story with the same childlike innocence of Rosaura is vital in order to understand how Rosaura's naivety and innocence is crushed by the realisation of class inequalities being imposed on her.
Metaphorical language is also used - "the problem with you, young lady, is that you like to fart higher than your ass". This type of figurative language is a more indirect way of expressing something, and Rosaura's thoughts of "she was barely nine and one of the best in her class" makes her naivety apparent to the reader as she misses the intent behind her mother's utterance which refers to Rosaura's social class. This metaphor also conveys the idea of suppression; Rosaura cannot aspire to be more than the standards already predetermined for her by her social status.
Is Othello's real problem his own jealousy?
Do you mean to ask if there's literally a green-eyed monster in Othello? If that's what you're asking, then no.
The "green-eyed monster" refers to the popular saying which says a persons eyes "turn green" when filled with the feeling of jealousy. One of the main themes in Othello is jealousy, along with deceit and betrayal. There is no physical green-eyed monster in Othello.
I don't know what you where expecting but the answer is simply an emotion, jealousy used in the term as " i see the green eyed monster" green being a negative colour to other people
Juror #3 stands face-to-face with Juror #8, to demonstrate the stabbing action taken by the young defendant. But Juror #5, who has had experience with switchblade knife fights in his childhood neighborhood, dispels the theory citing the positioning of the blade had to be on a downward angle.
Juror #5:
"Anyone who's ever used a switch knife wouldn't handle it any other way."
Are Romeo and Juliet victims of their families' feud?
People spend a lot of time arguing (or being forced to argue in school) over who is at fault for Romeo and Juliet's death. It's a silly argument any way you cut it. Of course the existence of the feud necessarily shaped the events that followed, in two particular ways. First, it convinced Romeo, Juliet and the Nurse that the love affair had to be kept secret. If he wasn't convinced that Capulet would shoot him on sight, Romeo would have gone right after the party straight up to him just like Paris did and said "Look. I'm the only son and heir of Montague--I'm a pretty good catch for your daughter. And what's more, we've talked and I love her and I'm pretty sure she feels the same." Capulet was not the kind of man that would force Juliet on Paris when she preferred another suitable man, but he didn't know that she preferred another guy because she was afraid to tell him. Again, Friar Lawrence agrees to marry them in an irregular way just because he hopes this will reconcile the families, then (in one of many cowardly and irrational acts he does) does not tell the families about the marriage at a time when it might have saved Romeo and Juliet's lives, because he is afraid that Capulet will be angry if he does so. And the reason Capulet would be angry is because of the feud.
Of course, Capulet shows in Act 1 Scene 5 that he is actually kindly disposed towards Romeo. It is quite possible that he might have welcomed him as a son in law. It is the non-Capulets such as the servants Samson and Gregory and Tybalt (who is not a Capulet, being the son of Lady Capulet's brother as we find out in Act 3 scene 1) who are actively pursuing the feud.
This is the second way in which the feud shapes the plot, by giving a reason for the antagonist Tybalt to be an antagonist. He is all for fighting Montagues, as he says in act 1 scene 1 ("Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee"), so when he finds a Montague crashing the party in Act 1 Scene 5 he calls for his sword. Capulet tells him to shut up and not spoil the party, but Tybalt will have his fight with a Montague whether Capulet likes it or not, and so, as we hear in Act 3 Scene 1, he sends a letter challenging Romeo to Romeo's house and goes cruising the town looking for him.
Tybalt's feud driven mission to fight with Romeo, together with Mercutio's equally feud driven desire to enter that fight results in both of their deaths and disaster (and extremely apt word, since "aster" is the Latin for "star", so "disaster" means "star-crossed") for Romeo. It gets him in trouble both with the authorities in the person of Prince Escalus who banishes him, and with Lady Capulet, who takes the death of Tybalt as her own personal family feud. To console Juliet she reveals that she has plans to murder Romeo in Mantua in revenge for Tybalt's death, making it well-nigh impossible for Juliet to make a clean breast of things at this late stage. The feud here has moved on and become a feud between Romeo and Lady Capulet's family.
Ironically, Mercutio, who is so keen to defend the Montague family honour, is not a Montague any more than Tybalt is a Capulet. And as a footnote another non-family member, Paris, will choose because of the feud to believe that Romeo has come to Juliet's grave to desecrate it, and will make himself an instrument of the supposed Capulet wrath, insist on fighting Romeo and die in the process.
So, if you ask are Romeo and Juliet victims of the feud, a sensible answer is that there are a lot of factors which play into their tragedy. It is foolish to try to isolate one of them and say "look, this is the sole reason things went wrong for these kids". And there can be no doubt that if you removed the background of ill-will between the families, the story would not have turned out so unhappily. It is a necessary if not sufficient factor.
Who is soothsayer in Julius Caesar?
The soothsayer in Julius Ceasar is the man who tells Caear "Beware of the Ides of March." This has significant meaning, for the ides of March (the 15th) is the day of Julius Caesar's death. Caesar is ignorant towards this man, and for his ignorance, the warning did not get across to Caesar, and he is murdered.
Hamlet the movie vs Hamlet the play?
The scene funeral of King Hamlet was never appear in the book and it did appear in the movie.
How did casca react to the events at the lupercal festival?
Casca reveals information to Brutus that suggests Caesar may be getting more ambitious in a reaction to events at the Lupercal festival
In the story of The Merchant of Venice Portia is characterized chiefly by her?
Portia is the rich daughter of Belmont and heiress to her dead father's fortune. We first hear of her as a rich woman who could be the answer to all of Bassanio's money troubles. But Portia turns out to be much more than a rich plot-device. This woman is one of Shakespeare's deeper female characters - she's a good girl, but she knows what she wants and how to get it, even if her methods are a bit unconventional.
What is the turning point in Othello?
Act 3 scene 3 when Othello finally breaks down and asks Iago for proof of Desdemona's betrayal.
When was Henry iv part 2 written?
Shakespeare wrote two plays on the life of Henry IV who reigned from 1399 to 1413. Both deal with a number of fictional events as well as historical ones. Part 1 of Henry IV deals with the events of 1399-1401. Part 2 deals more especially with the events of 1413 leading to Henry's death and the accession of his son, Henry V
What are all the songs in seussical JR the musical?
Act 1:
oh the thinks you can think
horton hears a who
biggest blame fool
here on who
it's possible
how to raise a child
Alone In The Universe
One Feather Tail Of Miss Gertrude McFuzz,
Amazing Mayzie
Amayzing Gertrude
Monkey Around
Chasing The Whos
How Lucky You Are
Notice Me, Horton
How Lucky You Are (Mayzie's Reprise)
Horton Sits On The Egg
Act 2:
Egg, Nest and Tree
Mayzie In Palm Beach
Alone In The Universe (Reprise)
Solla Solew
All For You
The People Versus Horton The Elephant
Finale/Oh, The Thinks You Can Think (Reprise)
Green Eggs And Ham (Curtain Call)
Originally he said "Break heart I prithee, break." Then he dies Then later on in a revised verion he said: Do you see this? Look on her. Look,
her lips! Look there, look there!
Then he dies.
When were William Shakespeare's plays written?
His plays were written in the 1500-1600s in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. People are not sure of the exact dates. The earliest dates given are in about 1588 and the latest in 1614. Some plays we know were written before 1598 because a guy called Francis Meres made an incomplete list of them at that time. Sometimes we know because they were printed and we know the date. Sometimes we have a record of someone going to see the play. Usually these mean that we can say something like "We know that Romeo and Juliet was not written after 1597".
Sometimes there is a reference to a current event which means that the play was not written before the event--the success of the Children's companies which is referred to in Hamlet for example.
Does Bianca marry Lucentio in Taming of the shrew?
Lucentio wants to marry Bianca. Gremio and Hortensio are also interested in marrying her, but they dont play big roles and are merely just 2 suiters for Bianca.
The use of black-and-white shadow puppetry in the Balinese production of The Tempest puts more emphasis on the dialogue than on the actors.
When did Christopher Marlowe write the novel Dr Faustus?
It was not written by Shakespeare at all. It was written by Christopher Marlowe who was a contemporary of Shakespeare. It was first published in 1604.
Why was The merchant of Venice banned?
Because the play deals with inter-ethnic or interracial marriage (depending on how one interprets the term "Moor", Othello has been banned in societies that do not approve of this type of marriage. In addition, Desdemona defies her father--a no-no in strongly patriarchal societies--which is another reason that the play has been banned in certain places. In the US today, some parents, teachers, and librarians perceive that Othello is not appropriate for younger readers due to its mature themes of sexuality and racism, but the play isn't so much banned as made unavailable to younger readers.
What was the first English play written for children?
What was the first play written for children? What about it?
Harold Pinter was a British author, actor, director and playwright whom we so tragically lost in 2008. he won the Nobels piece prize in literature. He has written about 30 plays, 20 movie scripts and he set up about 30 plays in theaters, among the most known are: "The Birthday party", "The dumb waiter", "The Caretaker", "The Homecoming", "No man's land" and "betrayal".
Pinter's drama was often about communication or lack of it. His plays often took on the relations between women and men.
Fun fact:
He has actually been the "victim" of research from many different perspectives, among others: Psychoanalytic, feminist research and more. An example on feminist research you'll find when you watch Pinter's "Female Portraits" from 1988.
I mentioned that Pinter has received the Nobel piece prize for literature, well, he has won more than that. He has among others received the Shakespear-award, The European Literature Award and Moliere D'Honneur. In 1996 he was appointed commander of the order of the British Empire and in 2002 he received the Order
of the Companions of Honour.
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