In these lines, we are introduced to Baptista, a father who wants to find a husband for his oldest daughter, Katharina. The conflict of the play is also introduced as Baptista has decided that his youngest daughter cannot marry until Katharina does. These lines provide readers with some background information on Baptista and his daughters, as well as their familial relationship. They also reveal that while Baptista loves both of his daughter’s, he is at a loss for how to manage his oldest daughter, Katharina.…
I am Kaitlyn Luepann and I am portraying the fairy attendants Peaseblossom, Bottom, Cobweb, and the “jester fairy” Puck From William Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” I will be portraying all these characters as one character with characteristics of all four. The ways I am going to adapt the characters that I am portraying are for me to have a witty sense of humour, yet have common courtesy and manners, and have respectful body language and a humourous tone of voice because the three fairy attendants are very respectful, but Puck is humourous. How I adapt all of the fairies body language and tone of voice from the play to the modern day is to be a respectful Starbucks worker, who cracks jokes in a funny manner while customers…
Lani Jae recounted his hardest performance was playing Hamilton in Shakespeare’s “Hamilton.” “I wasn’t extremely comfortable with Shakespeare, and Hamilton had so many complexities with his personality. It was so different from me. I had to tap into a part of myself I didn’t know I had.”…
“ My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will…
With the type of environment fostered by this strong community of committed thespians, there is no chance that this show is anything less than a spectacle. Before opening night, all actors seemed high in spirits and giddy with excitement for the first show the next night. Theres a certain comfortability they have with each other that seems to be unique to the theater department. It is difficult to understand just what exactly that factor is, but David Ybarra (who will portray Friar Lawrence) says, “one of the things about the theater community is that its generally a very positive community to be around…no matter who we have, we’ll always be joking…
A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular and frequently performed comical plays (Berardinelli). The play transformed into a cinematic production by Michael Hoffman has not changed in its basic plot and dialogue, but the setting and some character traits have. The play setting has been gracefully moved from 16th century Greece to 19th century Tuscany (Berardinelli). The addition of bicycles to the play affects the characters in that they no longer have to chase each other around the woods, but can take chase in a more efficient fashion. As far as characters are concerned, Demetrius is no longer the smug and somewhat rude character we find in act 1, scene 1 (Shakespeare pg. 6, line 91), but rather a seemingly indifferent gentleman placed in an unfortunate circumstance set to delay his wedding to Hermia. Perhaps the most noticeable change in the character set from stage to film occurs in the characters of Puck and Nick Bottom.…
Kate and Bianca go through a lot of changes in The Taming of the Shrew. Kat and Bianca go through changes in 10 Thing I Hate About You, however the changes are made in Different ways. Both girls can be stereotyped by The Good and the Badde.…
‘A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money’( W.C Fields). The main male characters in “The Taming of The Shrew” and “Ten Things I Hate About You”, Petruchio and Patrick, have three things in common, the lust for money, the lust for power, and the lust for women. In the 1967 version of the play, originally written by Shakespeare, Petruchio is portrayed as brute only thinking about money and himself. In the 1999 version Patrick is portrayed as a charming, smooth talker that doesn’t care about social expectations. They use their character traits to woo Katharina (1967) Kate (1999). She’s a shrew that doesn’t care about social expectations or how she should act in public. I personally believe that the films are a love story about a man and a woman freeing each other.…
“10 Things I Hate About You” as well as “The Taming of the Shrew” are very similar to each other and that the “10 Things I hate about you” is based off “The Taming of the Shrew”. One similarity that I can point out right away is that at the end everything was a happy ending and everyone got there “loved one”…
“The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare, is a very notorious play that has been rewritten and turned into multiple Hollywood films. One very popular version of the famous play is the movie directed by Mr. Franco Zeffirelli. Although most think that this version is the most accurate representation of the original play, there are still many distinct differences.…
In Shakespeare prom he is talking to a girl. In Spencer's he is talking to a girl but she is also a character and speaks.…
While many will agree that Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is critically acclaimed to be one of the most entertaining and well-liked pieces that he has written, there tends to be a discrepancy over how the characters in the play are portrayed when it comes to the importance of gender roles. After reading James C Bulman’s article over the Globe’s more recent performance of Twelfth Night and Shakespeare’s original written version, I realized that there are many ways that this famous piece has been portrayed and each has its own pros and cons.…
William Shakespeare is one of the greatest author in English literature with all of his works from different genres from comedy, romantic, tragedies, the list goes on. "The Taming of the Shrew" relates to many of William Shakespeare love stories where they use comedic devices to help with the plot of the story. There are many stories where they use comedic devices to help create a plot. When using these devices, the audience is understanding the events happening during the play and what is expecting to happen. Others may say that without having these comedic devices it will still become a story with or without using comedic devices to entertain readers. I argue that using these comedic devices help develop the plot of "The Taming of the Shrew" to help enhance the action and gives the audience a mystery what to expect during the play. Without these comedic devices the play would go on without a ending.…
The whole production starts with a sharply dressed Skiffle band, entertaining the crowd as they all take their seats and to set the mood that filled the theatre. As the heavy red curtain finally rises after deep anticipation, the stage is decorated with a lounge room scene filled with an array of different characters. The first few minutes seem to pass quite slowly, mainly because it was rather difficult to understand the characters strong British accents and jokes only an Englishman would find funny. The first hint of what is to come, is the entrance of Francis Henshall, the lovable harlequin played by Owain Arthur, as he enters and proceeds to catch a grape in his mouth after somersaulting over a chair and landing on his back, adding a superb element of slapstick to the show. Another golden point is the addition of short musical performances in-between set changes, which kept the audience enthusiastic and didn’t let the energy fade.…
Not long after his father’s death, John began his acting career. As a beginning actor, he received a lot of negative criticism. He was given mixed reviews because of his father’s drunken legacy, his lack of ability to correctly recite lines, and attend practice sober. Despite John’s negative reviews, he persevered through the world of drama. At the age of seventeen, he made his first official debut, playing the Earl of Richmond in a popular adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III. In this play, John’s character was that of a hero who destroyed a murderous tyrant. As he approached his early twenties, John had become a well known, handsome, and stunning actor in the city of Richmond, Virginia. At the age of twenty, his mother claimed he was “the handsomest man in America[1]”. John also understood women. He was one of the lucky men able to work his…