Play Essays

Deception remains a challenge to socio-ethical morality since the time immortal. Every great writer has taken into consideration this socio-ethical dilemma in his/her works and has depicted its various manifestations at various levels. Hamlet by Shakespeare has dealt with this theme in a subtle and lucid way. The Importance of …

The play The Lost Boys: Letters from the Sons in Two Acts recounts the lives of five of R.H. Thomson’s great-uncles who were sent off to fight in the first world war. The material for the play came from the Thomson family’s collection of over seven hundred letters sent by …

In “Othello,” William Shakespeare extensively explores female stereotypes that occur during the playwright’s time. Throughout the Shakespearian era, women were seen as the inferior sex, over whom men had complete control and thus forcing women to act submissively and obediently in front of their husbands. Men believed that women were …

The 150 minutes – “Playing card 1: Spades” show is the first piece in the series of four directed by the visual wizard – Robert Lepage. It is truly daring that the performance lasts for more than two hours without an interval as it leaves variety of experiences among the …

She never believes me. But you will, won’t you? Please tell me you’ll listen. Well, everyone in town is scared of it – the crow, I mean. It’s pretty big for a crow. Its wings are the size of my arms (chuckles). But whenever I see it, I get a …

Susan Glaspell lived in a time where the most evident social issue was the inequality between men and women, and that women greatly relied on men in order to live. Glaspell, as a budding writer and feminist, tried to prove them wrong by writing plays regarding the freedom of women …

Arcadia is a play about the people who deals with life in a different perspective. It depicts the varied personalities and characters of every individual. Each individual portrays different roles to make the play more exciting and meaningful to the audience. This play also exemplifies the difference between two periods …

            A catharsis is a Greek word for a purification of emotions.  Aristotle was the one who stated that a good tragedy would contain a catharsis and he used the Oedipus Trilogies by Sophocles as the perfect example.  Oedipus the King is a tragic story of how a king is …

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is one of Shakespeare’s less complex plays in terms of deep thinking and ideas, but what it lacks in this sort of substance it makes up for in grand, witty and intricate speech. This essay will explore the literary devices that Shakespeare employs in ‘Much Ado …

Othello is a manifestation of gender discrimination prevailing at that time. It clearly refer to sexism that is not only inclined toward male chauvinism but also a degraded social status of women in the contemporary society. All three major female characters of the play epitomize this gender discrimination and manifest …