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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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How does Othello kill Desdemona?

He goes into their room while she is sleeping and then she wakes up and after she does he smothers her.

Why does Nora fling herself into the wild tarantella a doll's house?

he filngs herself into the wild tarantella to distract Helmer from getting the mail and reading Krogstad's letter.

What is a lesson readers can learn from the play Medea?

Be mindful of how you treat others.

Example: After so many years of marriage, Jason decided to leave Meadea for another women in the hopes of raising his status. In a counter action of just being tossed aside, Medea decides to have her revenge and wound jason like he wounded her

Why does Caesar's ghost appear to brutus?

Depending on how you look at it, there are two ways to view the appearance of the ghost.

1. You could view Caesars appearance as a bad omen for Brutus.

2. You could also view it as a manifestation of Brutus' guilt for killing Caesar. He truly admired Caesar but thought that his death would make Rome a better place.

Who wrote Shirley Valentine?

Willy Russel wrote Shirley Valentine

What does DAR symbolize in glass menagerie?

I don't necessarily know what the symbolism behind it but I figure that Amanda is in the organization because she was raised up in Blue Mountain (a very southern and old fashioned type of place). The Daughters of the American Revolution support preservations of history, education etc. The old fashioned and southern ways of Amanda would most likely lead her to join a group like the D.A.R.

What is an example of anachronisms in a mid summer nights dream?

It is difficult to talk about anachronism in this play because the whole setting of the play lacks any consistency whatsoever.

Theseus was the legendary founder of Athens, Greece, who did marry the Amazon Hippolyta at some time in the distant legendary past.

Oberon is a character from early medieval French and German romance. Shakespeare made up Titania. Puck is a character from English folklore.

The lovers plot could be set anywhere, but the rude mechanicals were clearly intended to be contemporary English working men. Their occupations (bellows-mender, joiner, tailor etc.) are Elizabethan.

Shakespeare mishmoshed all this together to make the play. It all takes place in the land of faraway and long ago. In this light, does it make sense to even talk about anachronisms?

What does the quote from Shakespeare thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud mean?

This means that even when you are having your best day (brightest day) there can always be something in your way or wrong (which would be the cloud) but one cloud on a bright day does not make it anyless bright.

What role do Theseus and Hippolyta play in A Midsummer Night's Dream What is the significance of the fact that they are absent from the plays main action?

Theseus has the role of an authority figure, blocking the romance of Hermia and Lysander, and providing the motivation for them to enter the forest. Later, in the same role, Theseus is able to provide reconciliation and resolution to the lovers' situation by allowing them to pair off in the way they desire.

Theseus and Hippolyta together provide the occasion of an upcoming marriage. This is the pretext for the mechanicals' play. Their wedding also becomes the event around which the final action in the play coalesces: the play Pyramus and Thisbe and the wedding of the lovers.

Theseus as an authority figure can only operate in the town; in the forest he is beyond his jurisdiction, which is why Hermia and Lysander go there. For so long as the action is in the forest, Theseus is absent. Oberon is the king there.

Who serve as a witness to the wedding of romeo and Juliet?

Friar Lawrence. Their wedding did not comply with the more modern laws pertaining to the technical requirements of weddings. Basically, they didn't need a witness back then, apart from God and the priest.

What is megan plays password?

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What theme is best supported by the passage Love makes your tasks as heavy as they are hateful?

"Love lightens a hateful task" is the theme best supported by the passage in The Tempest.

What does period drama mean?

it is a bit like a silent movie but it involves more acting and some speech

What is A midsummer nights dream about?

A Midsummer Nights Dream takes place in Athens, where there are many sharp and unfair laws. Where everything turns upside-down. The text starts in the court room of Theseus (Duke of Athens). A vexatious man named Egeus was having trouble with his daughter, Hermia because Hermia wants to marry Lysander but has to and refuses to marry Demetrius, who Helena loves. A lot of troubled relationships, magic, mischief and power appears in this story. It is a funny comedy that is full of wonder and excitement and enjoyable to read.

What do we gather about the Church's position on suicide from what Friar Lawrence tells Romeo?

When Romeo tries to kill himself in Act III Scene 3, the Friar talks him out of it. But he does not use the Church's position on suicide to do so. And wisely so. Romeo is in a mood to defy damnation, and the friar well knows that the only way to reach Romeo is to appeal to his love for Juliet. Thus he argues that by killing himself Romeo will also kill Juliet, whose life is entwined with his. He argues that Romeo will make himself a perjurer if he kills the one he has sworn to love. These arguments, plus the argument that there is still hope for life together despite the banishment, are what persuades Romeo to abandon the suicide idea. An argument along the lines of "Don't commit suicide or you will go to Hell." would have had no effect. The closest he comes is by describing suicide as "doing damnéd hate".

There is good reason for this. Romeo and Juliet is a play, not a catechism class. Shakespeare's audience knew exactly what the church's position on suicide was and is, as do most modern readers. Just in case you don't, suicide is a mortal sin in the Catholic Church, and suicides are denied funerals and burial in consecrated ground. We see the effect of this in another Shakespeare play, Hamlet, where Ophelia's burial is compromised because she is a suspected suicide.

Why are there no women on the jury in Twelve Angry Men?

This isn't really explored. 12 Angry Men makes for a better title than 12 Angry People. While making remakes, adding female jurors was explored but dismissed as executives did not want to change the title.

Writing in a female might change the group dynamic and require extra work in script writing.

What is significant about Marlowe's Doctor Faustus?

It is a good play, one of the very few plays of the time not by Shakespeare which gets regular attention and performance. Faustus's line "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" is certainly the most quoted and remembered line from any non-Shakespearean Elizabethan or Jacobean play. ("Hieronymo's mad againe" probably comes second.) It is not, however, the play which made Marlowe's name as a playwright and significantly raised the bar for poetic dialogue: that would be Tamburlaine Part 1.