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    the first person.[N 1]Great Expectations is a bildungsroman‚ or a coming-of-age novel‚ and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens’ weekly periodical All the Year Round‚ from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.[1] In October 1861‚ Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. Great Expectations was to be twice as long‚ but constraints imposed by the management

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    ------------------------------------------------- Restoration literature Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689)‚ which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England‚ Scotland‚ Wales‚ and Ireland. In general‚ the term is used to denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that center on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II. It is a literature that includes

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    type of system and we documented these sources of information. A system to store and process club members’ records For this research I found a spreadsheet for Bamber Bridge United Junior Football Club’s member records from Ross the manager. This is how the club keep track of all their members and their details. It has columns for Name (for which the surnames have been deleted for privacy)‚ Phone Number‚ Email Address‚ Address and Comments. It is useful that it stores information such as Phone Numbers

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    Introduction Commedia Dell’Arte is a form of improvised drama which originated in Italy in the 16th century. Commedia uses stock characters and is a form of theatre for the common man. Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom created by BBC Television which first broadcasted on BBC2 in 1975. Faulty Towers episode "Gourmet Night" have used many of the same comical devices as Commedia. Faulty Towers is originally based in a hotel and focuses on the misfortunes of the owners and the staff as they try to

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    Jacobean drama (that is‚ the drama of the age of James 1-1603-1625) was a decadent form of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The Elizabethan age was the golden age of English drama. But with the turn of the century the drama in England also took a turn. It does not mean that there were no dramatists left. There certainly was a large number of them‚ but none of them could come anywhere near Shakespeare. Just as after Chaucer poetry in England suffered a decline‚ similarly after Shakespeare

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    Elements of Drama Drama is a display of emotions‚ a representation of relationships and the portrayal of the different phases of human life. It sketches different personalities and represents a wide variety of emotions through the different characters it portrays. Which of its components are identified as the elements of drama? Let us see. Aristotle‚ a philosopher who wrote on a variety of subjects like poetry‚ theater‚ music‚ rhetoric and handled subjects like biology‚ physics‚ logic and politics

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    As part of our GCSE Drama course‚ we read and studied ‘Bouncers’ by John Godber. During our practical exploration of the text we used drama mediums‚ elements and explorative strategies to enhance our understanding and appreciation of the play. We used the strategies: still image‚ mime‚ hot-seating‚ marking the moment‚ narration‚ role play‚ thought tracking and forum theatre. We also used the mediums of space‚ levels‚ movement‚ mime‚ voice and speech. During our workshops we were also given the opportunity

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    DRAMA ESSAY – BOAL/MEYERHOLD Chelsea Carrick-Donahoo The new and abstract philosophical beliefs of theatre practitioners Augusto Boal and Vsevolod Meyerhold have greatly influenced the creation of their theatrical practices. Boal’s context within Brazil’s oppressive regime in the twentieth century developed his goal to use theatre as a therapeutic means of showing audiences how they could overcome oppression in his Theatre of the Oppressed. Meyerhold

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    What Is Drama

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    Drama is written for live visual performance; it is more intense and reflects everyday life tensions more than poetry. Drama is observed right in front of you; there is color‚ lights for the setting‚ clothing and the scenes change. Drama allows you to see the characters personality developed as the drama unfolds on stage. Drama has two forms tragedy and comedy. “Riders of the Sea” is a drama of tragedy. The plot of the drama is central and foreshadowing and flashbacks are techniques used to show

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    ma ORIGINAL TEXT: (Act 1‚ Scene 2) O that this too too solid flesh would melt‚ Thaw‚ and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary‚ stale‚ flat‚ and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden‚ That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead! — nay‚ not so much‚ not two: So excellent a

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