Plays

Hedda Gabler is about a cold, manipulative woman's unhappy marriage and eventual suicide. She's a beautiful woman, former belle-of-the-ball type and daughter of a renowned general; she plays with his pistols when she's bored. (Note that the title of the play is her maiden name, Hedda Gabler, not her married name, Hedda Tesman). She marries down to a second-rate academic because she was out of options, and is openly disdainful of her husband and his family (though he never seems to pick up on it). Hedda's interactions with Thea prove her to be cruel and manipulative (ex. when she makes Eilert think that Thea doesn't trust him and tauntingly brings up the threat she used to terrorize Thea with at school, of burning off her hair). Through her discussions with old flame Eilert Lovborg, we realize that she is drawn to the passionate, wild and beautiful things in life, but though not religious she is bound by the rules of society and terrified of being involved in scandal. She is also pregnant, but denies this because she doesn't want to be a mother. She openly admits to being a coward a heart. Her reasons for destroying Eilert's manuscript aren't clear, but the most obvious are sheer resentment towards Thea and Eilert. Her suicide is caused by a few main factors: 1.) she's disillusioned because Eilert's death was crude and ignoble, not beautiful as she'd hoped; 2.) Judge Brack is basically blackmailing her to have sex with him because he alone knows that Eilert was killed with her pistol (if that got out, everyone would know she was involved with a wild alcoholic and scandal would ensue); 3.) her husband is planning on spending even less time with her now that he's reconstructing Eilert's manuscript. Other implicit factors may include her pregnancy and lack of control over her life. Basically, Hedda Gabler is a woman who was unable to find beauty, courage, or control over her own life, so she cruelly manipulates others and eventually kills herself.

In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, Caesar is murdered in the Senate at the begining of Act III. Caesar's ghost later returns to warn Brutus that he will die at Philippi - a warning that Brutus seems neither surprised, nor much troubled by.

He answers the Sphinx's riddle which saves Thebes

In West Side Story, the 1961 musical about two street gangs from New York (Jets and Sharks).

Maria's boyfriend was Chino, a member of the Sharks. Maria was a Jets girl.

If the ancient Greek gods made their heroes behave a bit irrationally now and then, there is nothing we can do about it.

Queen Margaret is the widow of King Henry IV, who was seen dead earlier in the play in the scene where Richard woos Anne. She is of the house of Lancaster.

Egeus, her father.

anewsrs of any variety are hard to come by at sol cafe, let alone the tried to be true anewsr you may find elsewhere. Life has realities that can not be dealt with by repeating a cliche for comfort. If a pat anewsr slips out it may get questioned and disected leaving us with more questions, yet we have thru our discussion sought to understand, that may even constitute as prayer, i don't know though.

They have to wait for Kate to be married before they can marry Bianca. And of course they have to show that they are rich, so they will be good husbands to her (rich husbands anyway. Baptista doesn't seem to care much about whether they will be kind husbands.)

He was killed by the members of his senate. 9 in all, on the ides o fMarch, meaning the 14th.

Shakespeare (probably with the help of Fletcher) wrote a play about Henry VIII, who was the father of Elizabeth I. However, at the time the play was written, she was not the queen, having died some years earlier. Henry VIII was King James's great-uncle and was no relation to his consort Queen Anne.

â??Jitneyâ?? by playwright , August Wilson is about the unlicensed and unofficial cabs that take passengers to places normal cab services donâ??t. Itâ??s the story of a prodigal son who returns in disgrace following his incarceration, to work for his fatherâ??s jitney company.

The blank verse was first used in the English language by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey when he translated AEneid The original Latin text probably inspired him to write this first blank verse.

There was nothing scandalous about William Shakespeare's marriage. Anne was around eight years older than William when the pair married in 1582 (William was eighteen), and there seems to have been a special licence issued to get the marriage through in a hurry (Anne was pregnant). But marrying a girl older than yourself was not very unusual in a sixteenth century farming community. A young man with ambition (which William certainly was) needed a mature woman to manage his local affairs while he traveled to seek his fortune in London. And marrying a bride who was already pregnant was almost normal (fiancés were considered as good as married even in Chaucer's time, as the Wife of Bath reminds us).

There he is! There she is! There they are!

I don't know how you can identify a character from the play without looking at the play. Are you asking how these people are related to each other? The king and queen are, unsurprisingly, married to each other. Laertes is Polonius's son and Polonius is the councillor to the king.

To Othello, a lady's handkerchief is a token of her loyalty. To this Moor, led by blind passions, superstitions and misguidance, the possibility for a chance of a lady's handkerchief being misplaced or lost does not occure and even if it occurs, not acceptable. That is why this unimportant matter of a handkerchief becomes important to him.

the peacemaker between jimmy and alison

â??The Zoo Storyâ?? by Edward Albee is about a bizarre meeting. One day, Peter is accosted by a man who continues asking him personal questions. Eventually he answers, then finds when it is the other manâ??s turn to share, he relates something thatâ??s not the type of thing a stranger would relate. The encounter grows stranger by the minute and finally a knife is drawn and tragedy happens. The story shows that through our lives, no matter how civilized we are, the animal nature of man is always near.

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In Jean Anouilh's Becket, the Privy Council of Henry II is comprised of [at least] the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Oxford, Gilbert Follion, and Becket (as the Chancellor of England).

Nine Nights, church services, Mother Rachel's farcical 'Obeah'.

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