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    parts of what makes a perfect drama. It is a story of a seemingly upper-class woman named Blanche‚ who left her hometown and lavish lifestyle to live with her younger sister and her husband in New Orleans‚ which at the time was a lower class neighborhood‚ until she got her life back together‚ but what she doesn’t know is that moving in with her sister will undoubtedly be the worst decision of her life. Tennessee Williams combines the elements that make up a perfect drama beautifully. For the plot

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    is also known as the golden age of English drama. In this age the tremendous impetus received from the renaissance‚ reformation‚ and from the exploration of the new-world. Such an age of thought‚ feeling and vigorous action finds its best expression in the development of drama which culminating in Shakespeare‚ Johnson and University Wits. Though the age produced some excellent prose works‚ it is essentially an age of poetry‚ but both poetry and drama were permeated by Italian influence‚ which was

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    DRAMA FROM THE ROMANTIC PERIOD TO MODERN TIMES Drama has revolutionized our era from the Romantic Period to the modern times with its vast developments over the years. Until the nineteenth century‚ most European playwrights "drew their tragic plots from ancient myths or legendary history" (Berggren 1). The choices of the dramatic subjects demonstrated that truly important things only happened to people with a high social status amongst society. In the Romantic Period (1785-1830)‚ interest in the

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    An essay – Caribbean Drama‚ from the aspects of traditional or indigenous culture Stacy Herbert “If theatre is to truly represent the people and nation from which it comes‚ it should draw from its culture‚ festivals‚ traditions and folk art; and Trinidad & Tobago’s carnival offers a unique opportunity to create a theatre which truly represents this”. These are the thoughts and words of Errol Hill‚ with which I concur. In keeping with this idea‚ I will bring to the fore a number of Trinbagonian

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    "My Last Duchess" is a splendid poem achieve within the format of the dramatic monologue‚ a poetic form in which there is only one speaker. Because there is only one speaker‚ we the reader must wonder carefully what the Duke is telling us‚ and we often have to read between the lines in order to keep an objective perspective on the what is happening in the poem. This paper will discuss how the use of the dramatic monologue makes the subject (the Duke) tell a story while‚ at the same time‚ unintentionally

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    theatrical piece are weather‚ symbolism‚ and sound‚ which will further be defined. Weather is a key element in providing viewers not only the time of year the story is taking place‚ such as seasons‚ but it can also be used as a factor for additional drama. There are three different days showcasing three different church services‚ this provides evidence that the movie takes place within a few weeks rather than a few days. There is also never a hint of sunshine‚ it is either overcast‚ raining or snowing

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    Ancient Greek times enveloped many revolutionary discoveries and creations‚ especially in the world of literature. Literature flourished in Greece with the help of poetry and drama. Three profound playwrights left a significant impact on Greek culture: Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ and Euripides. Out of the three most influential playwrights of ancient Greek times‚ Euripides turned out to be the most distinct. Euripides was born in 480 BCE on the island of Salamis. He lived during the time of the Peloponnesian

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    In the restoration‚ English drama died out. After the brilliant period of English drama‚ which was the renaissance period‚ there is the period of decline and stagnation. There are different reasons for that: theatres were closed and reopened after 18 years‚ this is a period of civil war and people wanted to fight for nothing else as they experienced the war. Writers wrote from the head‚ not from the heart. The genre that dominated at this time was satire. This is the age of disillusion‚ this

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    Robert Browning was an English poet whose mastery of dramatic verse‚ especially dramatic monologues‚ made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. “My Last Duchess” is one of his best known dramatic monologues in which the speaker reveals his character to a silent listener. This poem is loosely based on historical events involving Alfonso‚ the Duke of Ferrara‚ who lived in the 16th century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem. He tells us he is entertaining a representative who has come to settle

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    BLOOD WEDDING (BODAS DE SANGRE‚ 1933) By Federico García Lorca POETICE TRAGEDY‚ POETIC DRAMA OR RURAL TRAGEDY: Blood Wedding is the first and most enigmatic of Lorca’s trilogy of rural Andalusian tragedies and has been widely praised by the critics for the achievement of a tragic form. Its distinctive features include the fusion of lyric and dramatic impulses‚ the skillful integration of a musical pattern in the drama’s structural design‚ the thematic relevance of songs‚ stage effects

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