Play Essays

A state of disillusion. After the first World War, Americans found it difficult to buy into the american dream because of how horrific the event was handled. Disillusionment is everywhere, but a prominent example of disillusionment is in the memory play, The Glass Menagerie. A memory play is a play …

Females should wear dresses and be polite; males need to be aggressive and strong. These were some of the gender expectations that men and women had to follow during Shakespeare’s time. Throughout the play of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare provides examples of how women and men were treated differently back …

The post war play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller could be viewed as a contemporary democratic tragedy. The play depicted over two Acts and Requiem, takes the audience on an emotional journey of a confused and ‘lost’ lo-man on the tragic road to suicide. Willy Loman battles with …

At the start of this extract, Willy is planting seeds in his garden, and Biff goes to tell Willy he is leaving home and not coming back. The planting of seeds is significant, reflecting how Willy wants to pass something on, leave a legacy for something to grow after his …

In Baz Lurhmann’s version of Romeo and Juliet he starts with a dark room with a television producing static noise. This sets an unsettling affect. Also the camera adds on to the affect quite significantly from being long shot to zooming for a close up on the television. Also I …

In this essay I am going to compare the start of two variations on the classic Shakespeare play “Romeo and Juliet”. Both of the films are based on the original and contain the same words and actions as they did in Shakespeare times but they have been changed so that …

Historically, reason and imagination have played varying roles in the areas of knowledge. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a rationalist who strongly believed that the role played by imagination was insignificant in the acquisition of knowledge due to its confusing and tentative nature. He believed that the world was deterministic, …

Trevor Nunn and Roman Polanski are two famous directors with very different styles and influences. Both have produced versions of Macbeth, one for television and one cinema. In this assignment, I will analyse the key dramatic techniques and effects they use, which differentiates them from each other.Polanski’s version of Macbeth …

It is evidently clear that the events which occur in Measure for Measure were heavily influenced by the society of Shakespeare at the time. Even though the play is set in Vienna, the audience of that time would undoubtedly have seen many parallels between their society in England, in particular …

Play “Macbeth” is one of the most famous tragedies of Shakespeare and this critical review essay about it. The plot is borrowed by the author from the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Holinshed, as well as the plots of many of his other tragedies. The fate of the …