Play Essays

Blanche’s death speech plays a vital role in the development of the play “A Streetcar named Desire”. In the monologue the tension between Blanche and Stella comes to a zenith as Blanch explodes with rage as she expresses her jealousy-driven feelings to Stella. In doing so Blanche reveals much more, …

Some may wonder if a religious lesson can benefit everyone or just the specified religion. Morality plays have been written and acted out for hundreds of years, to benefit society. Morality plays can be defined as two similar but slightly different things. Some sources refer to morality plays as a …

Through play children develop co-ordination and strength, they also learn how to take risks, negotiate and overcome obstacles. Children need to take risks to find out about themselves and their boundaries and the best way to do that is through play, e. g, climbing walls, obstacle courses, climbing trees. Play …

William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark can be considered one of the most influential and powerful tragedies that the English language has been blessed with. Shakespeare’s longest play embellishes the revenge that Prince Hamlet must partake in by killing his uncle for murdering his father, King …

Rachel Ehrenberg said that “Not so long ago, Mozart mania swept the nation. A small study found that students who listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata performed better on a paper-folding task than their peers” (Ehrenberg, 2010). Laurence O´Donell mentioned young man who was attending primary school, when …

What knowledge is there now that I can be innocent of? Innocent, the eyes of one who sees the corpse of a King, smoothly hacked at like a piece of meat by a well-practiced butcher, knowing that it was those eyes, my eyes, that watched the traitorous act come to …

Macbeth Probably composed in late 1606 or early 1607, Macbeth is the last of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies, the others being Hamlet, King Lear and Othello. It is a relatively short play without a major subplot, and it is considered by many scholars to be Shakespeare’s darkest work. Lear is …

How is Benedick’s attitude to love and marriage presented by Shakespeare in Act 2 Scene 3, lines 181-213 and how does this differ from Act 1 Scene 1, lines 119-182? Shakespeare’s play, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ has a similar plot to a modern romantic comedy: the lovers fall apart from …

Witches: “Fair is foul, and fair is foul,” (I, I, 10) Comment: This introduces the idea of deceptiveness of appearances throughout the whole play. King Duncan: “What [the Thane of Cawdor] hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.” (I, II, 79) Comment: King Duncan calls Macbeth noble even though later he …

Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a play written in the early nineteen hundreds. What happens is a farmer by the name John Wright is murdered and the culprit is thought to be Minnie Wright, John’s wife. This play takes place in the kitchen of John Wright’s abandoned farmhouse. This case …