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    Kabuki: a Japanese Form

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    Kabuki: A Japanese Form Japan ’s dances and dramas as they are seen today contain 1300 years of continuous uninterrupted history. This prodigious feat of conservation‚ theatrically speaking‚ makes Japan an extraordinary and unique country. In all of Asia‚ where tradition generally is sanctified and change eschewed‚ Japan stands as the only country whose theatre is its entirety has never suffered an eclipse nor undergone any drastic revivification or renovation. The most traditional form of

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    challenges theatre’s claim to be simply realistic -- to be nothing but a mirror in which we view the actions and sufferings of characters like ourselves‚ suspending our disbelief in their reality.” (Metatheatre). It is present in many Renaissance dramas‚ yet it is analysed‚ understood and critiqued in a vast variety of ways. Davis claims that metatheatre awakens our minds to life’s “uncanny likeness” to art‚ theatre and forms undefinable. Metatheatre begins by sharpening our awareness of the unlikeness

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    Theater Critique The play‚ “Frankenstein‚” by Philip Grecian based on a novel by Mary Shelley‚ is a drama because the story line was about a very serious scientist‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ who was extremely involved in making a life form. He spent most of his time in the lab‚ and neglected his other duties and his health to some extent. When he finally created life with the help of his colleague‚ Henry Clerval‚ it was not at all what he had expected. He created a monster‚ which was referred to as

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    prevalence of literature in Ancient China‚ Ancient India‚ Persia and Ancient Greece and Rome. Many works of earlier periods‚ even in narrative form‚ had a covert moral or didactic purpose‚ such as the Sanskrit Panchatantra or the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Drama and satire also developed as urban culture provided a larger public audience‚ and later readership‚ for literary production. Lyric poetry (as opposed to epic poetry) was often the speciality of courts and aristocratic circles‚ particularly in East

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    learned some things from observing our play in class and I have also learned Aristotle’s element of drama. I noticed that out of Aristotle’s elements of drama‚ Plot‚ Diction‚ Spectacle‚ and Thought were very strong in the play. In my Play Experience class‚ we learned about imaginative transformation and I noticed this concept was well executed by the actors in the play. In Aristotle’s elements of drama‚ Plot is considered the action and Diction is of course dialogue and or language. The main plot

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    Doctor Faustus By Christopher Marlowe The Faust legend had its inception during the medieval period in Europe and has since become one of the world’s most famous and oft-handled myths. The story is thought to have its earliest roots in the New Testament story of the magician Simon Magus (Acts 8:9-24). Other references to witchcraft and magic in the Bible have always caused people to look upon the practice of magic as inviting eternal damnation for the soul. When the Renaissance came to northern

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    Athens‚ Patriarchal Societies‚ and Phaedra and Clytaemnestra Upon first examination‚ it would seem that the two female characters of Greek drama Phaedra and Clytaemnestra are far removed from one another. Phaedra is seemingly a love-struck character that embodies pathos and a pathetic nature while Clytaemnestra has a cold and calculative nature to her. However‚ both characters are at the whim of the patriarchal Athenian society which makes these two seemingly diverse characters closer in design

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    Agathe Detanger 3B Is love better conveyed through tragedy or comedy? To start off‚ I would like to analyze the words comedy and tragedy. In drama‚ tragedy is a form in which the characters are impelled to an unhappy outcome by forces or flaws beyond their control. Nowadays‚ tragedy describes extreme misfortunes‚ such as great personal loss or a calamity involving widespread suffering. A comedy on the other hand can be full of surprises or foolish situations that we don’t expect and it almost

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    “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning‚ a dramatic monologue poem which explains the thoughts through the Duke point of view. Yet the speaker portraits all these events to one particular person relating to the situation that is drawn out. At the same time the Duke shares the fact that how she was a property of his even after death‚ as he explains the painting of his last Duchess hung behind curtains. The indication of being his property is showing throughout the poem but the beginning stands out as

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    Parody

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    The stories were often repetitive preoccupied with the love stories that would happen in real life but turned into an entertaining fun play. Parody‚ often associated with the British playwright Tom Stoppard (b. 1737)‚ who was a master of comedy‚ drama and parody. The best way to describe parody is that it is a play or work of art that make fun of other artworks or plays in a way that keep the essence of the work but emphasizes the parts that can make fun of. Comedy is an important part of our life

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