Genre Essays

My name is Tyler-May. Tyler May, although I appreciate my name, it may create the impression that I am a strong and tomboyish girl with short hair, who wears loose t-shirts and Umbro track pants. Nevertheless, this perception does not bother me. Despite being 20 years old, I still feel like I’m 14. Although I […]

“Cream cracker under the settee” is one of Alan Bennett’s well-known monologues from the collection called “talking heads”. These monologues depict the lives of average individuals living ordinary, uneventful lives. Typically, Bennett’s characters experience a crisis or life event that results in a learning experience. The play, Cream Cracker under the Settee, made its television […]

Willy Russell was born in 1937 in Winston, Lancashire. He grew up in Knowsley’s, a village just outside Liverpool. He described his school, Woodfall secondary as “chaotic, badly run. ” He also attended Rainford Secondary which he left at the age of 15 with no formal qualifications. After school, he worked at a lady hairdresser […]

During this time England was experiencing great upheaval in both the political and social sphere. Society, during the 80’s, became a place of equal pay for women. The appointment of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister heralded a new era. The new Prime Minister was a woman, a time of Women’s superiority came about and Feminism […]

When we first hear of the Inspector in the play ‘An Inspector calls’, it brings a rather dampening view on the audience of the play, as an Inspector is usually related to something bad. The Inspectors name is Inspector ‘Goole’, which stirs thoughts and images of ghosts amongst the audience. In times of when the […]

Written in 1945 by the Playwright J. B. Priestly, ‘An Inspector Calls’ is a political play set in 1912, centred around a middle class family’s home. The Birling family, who live prosperously due to the success of their business, are enjoying a celebratory evening when suddenly, Inspector Goole arrives. He begins to interrogate each family […]

The aim of this essay is to demonstrate, with ample evidence, the significant amount of dramatic tension that the Inspector generates and his contribution to the play ‘An Inspector Calls’ overall dramatic effectiveness. The play was written by J. B. Priestley in 1945, in the aftermath of both world wars and the disastrous maiden voyage […]

Caribbean Post-Colonial Drama, namely the two plays studied for this analysis, Ti-Jean and His Brothers by Derek Walcott and Couvade by Michael Gilkes, are brimful with techniques used to cleverly critique Caribbean society and its history. These plays, seen mostly in Ti-Jean, can be seen or read on different levels. For example, the plays Ti-Jean […]

Patriotism has been a potent. political. cultural and economic force. It denotes a sense of national consciousness which unites a group of people and separates them from others. Harmonizing to the rule of self finding. each state has the right to be independent and to organize a suited type of authorities for it. A state […]

After being separated for 15 old ages, Una comes looking for Ray at his workplace after detecting his image in a magazine. They one time had an illicit relationship, and have been enduring the effects of all time since. What transpires following is a series of chilling turns and turns every bit inside informations of […]

The La Boite Theatre Company’s production of Adam J. A. Cass’s I Love You, Bro, directed by David Bethold, is a captivating drama that effectively explores themes of love, deceit, and manipulation. The protagonist, Johnny, is a troubled teenager desperate for affection and finds solace in online chat rooms. Through his lies, Johnny seduces and […]

  Abstraction Alfred Jarry’s groundbreaking drama,Ubu the King,has been a beginning of inspiration for motions such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd for comparatively a long clip. The thematic and formal building of this drama owes much to the dogmas of the Theater of the Absurd. This paper follows two major stairss. […]

In “A Doll House,” a realist play, Ibsen effectively uses dramatic conventions to reveal the flawed value system of the middle class. Sing the establishment of marriage, biased gender roles, and personal unity. Additionally, the dramatic tension in the play is intensified through Ibsen’s subversion of traditional dramatic structure and the melodramatic unraveling at the […]

A desire for retaliation can get the better of a individual and have great damaging effects. This is particularly true in the drama Othello by William Shakespeare. The drama takes topographic point in a clip of war between Italy and Turkey. The drama begins in Venice. Italy but so displacements to the island of Cyprus […]

Abstraction The topic of my research is how the theater conventions, political orientations, and techniques introduced by Bertolt Brecht are used in the play ‘The Curious Climb of Cutter Chee’. I chose to write an extended essay on this subject after watching the play and reading ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ and noticing distinct […]

There are debates about whether Willy Loman or Biff is the true hero of Death of a Salesman. The purpose of a tragedy is to evoke sympathy and fear in the audience, typically featuring a central character who causes chaos in their community. This tragic hero is tempted by something that reveals their fatal flaw, […]

Goffman’s Dramaturgical approach theory was inspired by William Shakespeare’s writings in which Shakespeare say’s “totus mundus agit histrionem,” which are Latin for “All the world is a theatre”. In his theory, Goffman views individuals as actors in society where “interactions are viewed as performances” (Barnhart, A. D. ,) the individual attempts to create an impression […]

Pretty much all of the key events or turning points in Much Ado about Nothing happen because characters deceive each other. Shakespeare uses deception as a way of structuring the plot because it often results in comedic situations and, after all, Much Ado about Nothing is a comedy. From the very beginning Shakespeare introduces the […]

Movies, soap operas, TV shows, sitcoms and even animes, these are some of things that Filipinos love to watch. We cannot deny the fact that watching is already a part of Filipino lifestyle. We can’t imagine a life without television, without cinemas and even internets which are the sources of those we want to watch. […]

Playwrights Edward Albee and Arthur Miller examine the American Dream in contemporary United States. Albee’s play, “The American Dream,” focuses on ambitious individuals’ obsession with success, while Miller also explores this theme in his plays. During the 1960s, many Americans pursued social advancement and wealth through dubious means to achieve their goals. In The Death […]

A Dramatic monologue is a lyric poem in which a single imaginary speaker or a historical personage expresses his thoughts and feelings to an imaginary silent audience. The dramatic monologue as we understand it today “is a lyric poem in which the speaker addresses a silent listener, revealing himself in the context of a dramatic […]

Metatheatricality is defined by Stuart Davis as “a convenient name for the quality or force in a play which challenges theatre’s claim to be simply realistic to be nothing but a mirror in which we view the actions and sufferings of characters like ourselves, suspending our disbelief in their reality. ” (Metatheatre). It is present […]