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Midsummer Night Dream Measure For Measure
3,147 words
... nilly and made investments in his native
Stratford, assembling a comfortable life and a
solid estate. Finally in 1599, he became part
owner in the most prestigious public playhouse in
London, the Globe. The Works. Shakespeare's early
works, to mid- 1594, can be divided into four
groups: 1. The Classical plays: his first works
which were heavily influenced by the classical
examples he had learned as a student. Plautus
served as the model for The Comedy of Errors,
Seneca for Titus Andronicus. ...
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Musical Theatre Great American
1,100 words
There are many great American choreographers of
our time. It is through their creative genious
that musicals and movies are made memorable. If it
wasn't for the work of these choreographers,
musical theatre wouldn't be what it is today. It
is because of these choreographers that musical
theatre is what it is. These choreographers
brought to musical theatre dance technique that
was only once used in ballet. In fact it was
because of this that ballet and jazz, as well as
all the other forms of dan...
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Romeo And Juliet Shakespeare Wrote
1,584 words
Around 1568, a group of actors visited Stratford
and put on a play before the entire town, with
permission from John Shakespeare, the mayor of the
town. The people loved the play, especially the
small children. All of them looked up to the
actors, as they returned each year to perform
different plays. They had dreams of one day
becoming actors, but only one of these children
fulfilled this dream. This child was the mayor's
son, William Shakespeare. At this time, actors in
England usually spent t...
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East Berlin Edward Ii
1,134 words
EUGEN BERTHOLD FRIEDRICH BRECHT, was born on
February 10 th 1898 in Augsburg Germany, and died
on August 14 th, 1956, in East Berlin. He was a
German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer
whose epic theatre departed from the conventions
of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as
a social and ideological forum for leftist causes.
Until 1924 Brecht lived in Bavaria, where he was
born. He studied medicine at the University of
Munich, from 1917 until 1921, and served at an
army hospital i...
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Waiting For Godot Theatre Of The Absurd
1,177 words
... eloped. Many theater historians and critics
label Alfred Jarry's French play, Ubu Roi as the
earliest example of Theatre of the Absurd. The
current movement of absurdism, however, emerged in
France after World War II, as a rebellion against
the traditional values and beliefs of Western
culture and literature. It began with writers like
Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus and eventually
included other writers such as Eugene Ionesco,
Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Edward Albee, and
Harold Pinter, t...
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Royal Court Second Act
1,782 words
Who is she and where did she come from? Caryl
Churchill is one of England's most premier female,
post-modern playwrights. She has strived
throughout her career as theatrical personality to
make the world question roles, stereotypes and
issues that are dealt with everyday, like,
violence, and political and sexual oppression. She
has been part of many facets of performance
throughout her almost sixty year career. Not only
has she been a strong force on the stage, but has
also had strong influences...
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Jean Paul Sartre Theatre Of The Absurd
1,612 words
Man's fundamental bewilderment and confusion,
stems from the fact that man has no answers to the
basic existential questions: why we are alive, why
we have to die, why there is injustice and
suffering, all this serve as the impetus for such
a thinking. Man constantly wonders about the truth
of life and realizes that the more you expect from
it, the more it fails you or may be the more we
expect from ourselves the more we find ourselves
engaging in a futile battle with the odds. May be
the truth ...
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The Rebirth Of American Musical Theatre
1,611 words
... oma! had proved, on opening night, a stunning
stage experience such as one does not often
encounter in a lifetime of play going. From the
moment the curtain rose and the first lines of the
first song were sung, down to the final scene with
the presentation of the title number, the audience
sat spellbound as a new kind of stage art unfolded
with incomparable beauty and majesty. (181) Along
with dance and villains, Rodgers and Hammerstein
also took on a new approach to forming the music
that t...
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Forced Onto Reserves Successful Playwright David Williamson Australian
1,282 words
... with stunning use of effective language. All
his plays achieve moments of striking,
non-realistic drama, challenging our attitudes to
sexuality and life, but are said to be sketchy and
undeveloped as drama. In 1968 Thomas Keneally,
another renowned novelist wrote Childermas, a
symbolic play dealing with the plight of children
in Vietnam. This was one of the first plays to
confront the topic of Vietnam. The 1960 s also saw
a significant Federal Government contribution to
the arts. A number of...
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Full Length Young People
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It's Wednesday night at Chicago's most venerable
coffeehouse, the No Exit. An improv group called
Bang Bang has been playing here late on
Wednesdays. They " re supposed to be hot. They "
re supposed to be good. They " re supposed to have
an interesting approach. The Chicago Tribune ran a
friendly piece about them in the Sunday arts
section. Which makes what I'm seeing now that much
more puzzling. There may be times when these Bang
Bang people really are all the things they " re
supposed to be, b...
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Ancient Greek Theatre Architec
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... e used in various ways. The center door was
where the priest or the leading actors would
enter. The chorus, messengers, or servants would
enter from either side door. The flat roof of the
see was called the theologian. There, the main
actors would act out their parts of the drama
during the performance (Foundation 1). The
theologian was also a place that was reserved for
the gods. Along the back wall of the see was a
narrow, raised platform, called the legion. The
legion was a place designed...
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Romantic Period Visual Arts
1,601 words
Baroque's Art Sites Art History Resources web This
page is an art history page of a large site
created by Dr. Christopher Witcomb: web The larger
site covers the whole range of art history. I
cannot begin to describe what is available on this
site, which must have been a huge work of love.
The site includes high resolution photos of
sculptures, paintings and other visual arts as
well as architecture, photography, textiles, icons
and even comic book art. Virtually every visual
art is represented ...
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Theatre Chorus Actor
651 words
How different cultures affected English Theater
Theater unites the past and present in a unique
cultural experience. Theatre continues to thrive
and has become an important subject for study in
schools and universities. Reaching back in time
and across the world, this ranging new history
draws on the latest scholarly research to describe
and celebrate theatre? s greatest achievements
over 4, 500 years, from festival performances in
Egypt to international multicultural theatre in
the late twentie...
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Midsummer Nights Dream Lord Chamberlains Men
6,344 words
The lost years 1586 - 1592 There is no documentary
record of Shakespeare's activities from the birth
of the twins, in 1585 until Robert Greene's
complaint about him as an upstart crow in 1592.
Biographers have therefore called these the lost
years. In fact, there is nothing certain known
about him from his birth in 1564 until 1592 except
that he was married in 1582, fathered Susanna in
1583 and the twins Judith and Hamlet in 1585, and
probably attended Stratford Grammar School. The
lack of detai...
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Second World War Waiting For Godot
551 words
Existentialism is a Existentialism Existentialism
Existentialism is a concept that became popular
during the second World War in France, and just
after it. French play rights have often used the
stage to express their views, and these views came
to surface even during a Nazi occupation. Bernard
Shaw got his play Saint Joan past the German
censors because it appeared to be very
Anti-British. French audiences however immediately
understood the real meaning of the play, and
replaced the British wit...
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Romeo And Juliet William Shakespeare
546 words
Shakespeare in Love is a fictional movie written
about the great writer and poet, William
Shakespeare. The story is of a young William
Shakespeare barely making ends meet and trying to
write a play for the local theatre. However,
Shakespeare is suffering from writers block, and
is seeking inspiration by having a muse. A muse is
a power, in this case a female, used to inspire a
poet. Of course, a love story proceeds. Although
fictional, the real story line is the writing of
Romeo and Juliet by Sh...
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Dark Ages Five Points
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Online Roleplaying Rules Ver 2. 1 (character
Creation) Online Roleplaying Rules Ver 2. 1
(character Creation) Welcome Welcome to the
Theatre de More and our game of Vampire: The Past
Returned in VP. Within this text you will find the
ways to create a character for the game and how to
submit yourself to engage in the game. If you seek
more information on the Kindred a link named
Vampire Homepage in the Theatre will take you to a
very informative site A little background on the
game. We are curren...
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Social And Moral Values Of Society
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Realism is the movement toward representing
reality as it is, in art. Realistic drama is an
attempt to portray life on stage, a movement away
from the conventional melodramas and sentimental
comedies of the 1700 s. It is expressed in theatre
through the use of symbolism, character
development, stage setting and storyline and is
exemplified in plays such as Henrik Ibsen's A
Dolls House and Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters.
The arrival of realism was indeed good for theatre
as it promoted greater...
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Romeo And Juliet Blank Verse
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Did Shakespeare, in any fashion, influence the
great novelist Dickens? That is the question that
I have set to find out. I assumed so, but I really
wanted to find the pure truth about these great
novelists, perhaps the best people ever to have
perfected this art form. I looked for specific
reasons and certain examples about these two men.
William Shakespeare is a genius of his art form,
of that there is no question. His contributions
and influence upon all literary movements to this
day are innu...
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West Side Story 20 Th Century
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Presentation The eminence of the musical has been
the most significant theatre phenomenon in the
world over the last twenty years. It has not only
given British theatres a greatly needed financial
boost but has changed popular theatre
indefinitely. Before this, they never throbbed
with subtlety because someone was always bursting
into song about how every thing was looking just
swell. The musical not only wanted to sing away
your troubles, but your thoughts as well. The old
style musical theatre...
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