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An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of Trilogies of Greek Drama (429 words, 1 pages)

Trilogies of Greek drama are sometimes based upon a reoccurring theme. In Aeschylus The Orestia, the theme of the curse on the house of Atreus foreshadows the fate of the trilogies characters. The curse is based upon the revenge ethic. It is believed that justice and personal revenge belongs to ... Read More

An Analysis of the Two Timeless Dramas in Romeo and Juliet (662 words, 3 pages)

Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story, two timeless dramas that will live forever. Although both of these stories have many similarities, there are also many differences. These differences include the differences in sililoquy, the fact that Maria doesn't die, the fact that we never see Tony or Maria's parents, as ... Read More

An Analysis of the Problem of Genre in Drama (786 words, 1 pages)

Problem of Genre in Drama When a reader thinks of a play that has been labeled a comedy he thinks of light-hearted and happy plots. The reader would not think of family tension, arguments or even perversion. The genre of comedy takes on the responsibility of making the audience laugh ... Read More

A Review of the Drama “An Inspector Calls” (1270 words, 2 pages)

An Inspector Calls Notes The drama centres around a group of characters in the same setting. The theme is the effect of an individual's actions over a period of time, their individual and collective responsibility for their actions, and the consequences of them. The audience and the characters progress from ... Read More

The Birth of Australian Drama in The Touch of Silk (1024 words, 2 pages)

By extension, the term melodrama has come to be applied to any play with romantic plot in which the author manipulates events to act on the emotions of the audience without regard for character development or logic. Melodrama had very 'stock' characters, in other words they were very stereotypical characters, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Contributions of Aeschylus and Sophocles to Drama in Athens (671 words, 1 pages)

Contributions of Aeschylus and Sophocles to Drama The most prestigious of the drama festivals held in Athens was the City Dionysia, held of a six-day period. Hundreds of visitors, dignitaries, and rural citizens crowded the city to see the spectacle. Aeschylus (524-456 B.C.) and Sophocles (496-406 B.C.), two playwrights of ... Read More

An Analysis of Characters in Drama (961 words, 3 pages)

Drama, topic 5(b) Consider how playwrights make characters speak in plays which you have studied and say how the language and tone of these dialogues, conversations or monologues contribute to each play as a whole. Characters in plays have real human characteristics and capacities. In fact, the success of a ... Read More

The Essential Elements Involved in Planning and Assessing Drama at Key Stage (3007 words, 5 pages)

THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS INVOLVED IN PLANNING AND ASSESSING DRAMA AT KEY STAGE 3 "How and by what means do we assess drama? Any assessment should provide a fair, reliable and objective means of placing a student's progress in drama." Neelands, J (2000) Beginning Drama 11-14, David Fulton Publishers. With no ... Read More

A Comparison of Literature and Drama (506 words, 1 pages)

Literature and Drama. The best expression of the Thai literary genius is found in poetry. Thai verse contains a great variety of meters, and the tonal quality of the language provides an additional metrical device not available in non-tonal languages. Tonal measure usually takes the place of rhyme, although in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Secret Garden and the Topic of Drama (1720 words, 3 pages)

The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett This play is a drama. The beginning of this takes place in Colonial India, around 1906. The story then moves to Misselthwaite Manor, North Yorkshire, England. In this play a young girl, Mary, is abandoned by a plague that has killed her family and ... Read More

A Issue of a Prime TV Drama (3699 words, 6 pages)

Often, while sitting in front of the television, we hear one another predict what is going to happen next, or play a guessing game as to how this week's "issue" of a prime time TV drama will be resolved before the hour runs out. Our minds have become accustomed to ... Read More

A Review of Far and Away, a Romantic Adventure Drama Film (737 words, 1 pages)

The movie Far and Away is a great depiction of the Oklahoma land rush, as well as immigrant life in the United States. The movie is extremely accurate, and it was hard to find parts of the movie that were not accurate. The movie takes place in the 1800s and ... Read More

The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith: First-Docu Drama (1299 words, 2 pages)

"THE BIRTH OF A NATION" Epic D.W. Griffith The "Birth of a Nation", by David Wark Griffith, is a 1915 silent film based on the book The Clansman, written by Thomas Dixon. According to the liner notes included with this video re-release, Griffith has been given the title of "The ... Read More

A Movie Review of Cinema Paradiso, an Italian Drama (2112 words, 3 pages)

Toto begins to find interest in the opposite sex when he sees a new girl in his school. Toto and Alfredos talks take a turn towards women and love. Something that most fathers talk about with their sons. Alfredo tells Toto the story of a solider who falls in love ... Read More

A Movie Review of Way Down East, a Silent Romantic Drama (2344 words, 4 pages)

The film is subtitled "A Simple Story of Plain People," with director Griffith intending that its sweeping, lyrical, but epic style would convey an image of a vanished, unspoiled, pastoral America. It is a simple, timeless allegory of plain, everyday people in a story which attacks prejudice and bigotry. Lillian ... Read More

A Biography of Political Drama in Cry Freedom by Donald Woods (1934 words, 3 pages)

FILM ANALYSIS OF CRY FREEDOM BY TASHA Cry Freedom is a biography featuring political drama and docudrama. It is based on a book, Asking for Trouble, Biko, written by Donald Woods. The movie was set in South Africa and was release November 6, 1987 by Universal Pictures. This drama has ... Read More

Justification for the Use of Creative Drama in the Classroom (3459 words, 6 pages)

Justification for use of Creative Drama in the Classroom Communicating ideas and opinions stands tantamount as the one skill that all human beings must do well to succeed in their lives. We must talk openly and honestly to convey whom we are, and what we want. And we must listen ... Read More

The Role of Society in the Evolution of the Conventions of Drama (1931 words, 3 pages)

Through the centuries, the conventions of drama have been altered in many different ways. These conventions are the setting, plot, characters and staging. The main factor which has been a dominant force during the changes of conventions has been the society. The society present during the time in which a ... Read More

An Analysis of Commedia Dell’Arte the First Improvisational Drama (3091 words, 4 pages)

Commedia Dell'Arte (1400-1600 AD) 1.)Commedia dell'Arte was essentially the first improvisational drama. The Commedia dell'Arte was popular in 16th and 17th century Italy, in a period when theatre plays were classic and cold, and amateur actors recited their memorized lines onstage with no apparent emotion. Commedia dell'Arte - in English, ... Read More

Plot Overview of The Mission, a British Drama about a Jesuit Missionary (676 words, 3 pages)

The Mission is an epic that tells a story about a Catholic missionary and a slave trader. In this movie in the mid-eighteenth century, the Jesuit priests in what is today northeastern Argentina and Western Paraguay find themselves caught in a not unusual struggle. The action between the Pope in ... Read More

The Characters of the Tragic Drama Macbeth, WIlliam Shakespeare (1277 words, 2 pages)

In the tragic drama Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare in 1606 during the English Renaissance, the hero, Macbeth, constantly declines in his level of morality until his death at the end of the play. Because of his change of character from good to evil, Macbeths attitude towards other characters, specifically ... Read More

An Analysis of the Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller (684 words, 1 pages)

The Drama of the Gifted Child (pp1-67) By Alice Miller The bonding (through skin and eye contact) between mother and baby after birth stimulates in both of them the feeling that they belong together, a feeling of oneness that ideally has been growing from the time of conception. The infant ... Read More

A Review of the Movie Stepmom a Tearjerking Comedy-Drama (409 words, 2 pages)

With a bland and unrevealing title like Stepmom, you might half expect a horror film about the mad matriarch of a dysfunctional family. That's not the case here. Rather, Stepmom is another a long tradition of three-hankie weepies, and a rather archetypical one at that. Luckily, this tearjerking comedy-drama compensates ... Read More

A Description of Modern Drama as an Imitation of an Action (588 words, 2 pages)

Modern Drama Modern drama began by turning toward realism and away from the fantasy of nineteenth-century melodrama and farce. Realism gave rise to various innovations that served to express the dramatists vision of what reality is. These attempts to be more real than real can be called expressionism. Realism and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Drama Shoe-horn Sonata by John Misto (1831 words, 3 pages)

Essay for Dramatic Techniques The drama "Shoe-horn Sonata", by John Misto, presents a relationship between two women Bridie and Sheila during and after Would War Two. Misto uses a variety of theatrical devices to convey this relationship to the audience and they are effective. In the play, the alternating setting ... Read More

An Introduction to the Elizabethan Drama and New Historicism (5481 words, 9 pages)

Beyond New Historicism Marlowe's unnatural histories and the melancholy properties of the stage Drew Milne The tradition of the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living. 1 There is no document of culture which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And ... Read More

Shakespeare’s Depiction of the Ancient Greek in the Drama of Ancient Greek (3039 words, 4 pages)

Final Paper Drama of Ancient Greece The Greek dramatists have bequeathed immensely to the current mode of modern Western literature. Shakespeare and his contemporaries revered them for their distinct and explicit language, their dramatic scenes, and their extravagant processions. The language of their stories has connoted itself into both, the ... Read More

A Brief Biography of Machiavelli a Master Figure of Elizabethan Drama (2159 words, 3 pages)

The master figure of Elizabethan drama is Machiavelli. He was only known through the French of Gentillet, if that but he was the great character of supreme intrigue that, however taken, was at the back of every tudor mind. Elizabethan drama--"the first terror-stricken meeting of the England of Elizabeth with ... Read More

Demystifying Common Assumptions of the Tragic Hero of the Greek Drama Antigone (595 words, 2 pages)

Antigone There has always been a bit of confusion as to the tragic hero of the Greek Drama Antigone. Many assume that simply because the play is named for Antigone, that she is the tragic hero. However, evidence supports that Creon, and not Antigone, is the tragic hero of the ... Read More

The Main Themes of Whale Rider, a Drama Film Directed by Niki Caro (1370 words, 2 pages)

Based on the novel by Witi Ihimaera, Whale Rider is an uplifting and entertaining film that tells the story of a small Maori tribe, living on the east coast of New Zealand in Whangara, who appear to have lost all sense of faith and interest in the traditions and beliefs ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013