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    Drama and Poetry

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    I was the oldest of seven little boys and girls‚ who couldn’t understand what was going on. We were sitting in the hospital waiting room‚ some of us screaming and playing‚ others just silently crying and me‚ I was sitting next to my father‚ taking his hand into mine. The minutes seamed like hours‚ everything was so slow. Time passed and my brothers and sisters began to fall asleep all over the room‚ but my dad didn’t care‚ he just stood in the chair‚ with his hands covering his eyes. He wouldn’t

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    APPRECIATING DANCE Dance - is an art and a recreation that involves the rhythmical movement of the body‚ usually with music‚ to express an idea or emotion‚ to narrate a story or simply enjoy and take pleasure in the movement itself - As an art‚ a dance may tell a story‚ set a mood or express an emotion - As a form of recreation‚ it has provided fun‚ relaxation‚ and companionship -As an art it started from the moment it was harnessed to a rhythm‚ probably the stamping of the feet and clapping

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    Is Gender Performative?

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    Is gender performative? “One of the interpretations that has been made of Gender Trouble is that there is no sex‚ there is only gender‚ and gender is performative.” (Judith Butler interview 1993) When approaching and investigating the discourse of gender roles‚ gender performance and gender trouble one will find that there have been different approaches over the centuries and that the connection made between sex and gender is one of change and development. The questions that are going to be answered

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    Judith Butler has advanced a notion of gender performativity in 1990 book Gender Truble. For Butler‚ she regards gender as a script that is a rehearsable act. Every human beings is actor that performing the script in the reality through repetition. Then it turns to perform in the mode of belief that everyone should act accordingly to those norms. Women keep on practicing what femininity is that culturally prescribed‚ men are masculine because they fulfill what the society think that is masculinity

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    Short stories‚ poetry and drama are different types of literature but they share many of the same elements. Some of the many elements shared are figures of speech‚ conflict‚ foreshadowing. One of the same elements short stories‚ poetry and drama have is setting. "The setting of a work of fiction establishes its historical‚ geographic‚ and physical context." (pg. 251.) Setting can also be important in short stories‚ poetry and drama because setting "encompasses a wide variety physical and cultural

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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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    Definition of Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.[1] The term comes from a Greek word "dran" meaning "action" which is derived from "to do" or "to act". Drama is an art form that explores human conflict and tension. It generally takes the form of a story presented to an audience through dialogue and action. The story is conveyed using the elements of the theatre: acting‚ costumes‚ props‚ scenery‚ lighting‚ music‚ and sound. Drama has an emotional and intellectual

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    Drama In the 1580s Philip Sidney complained that English playwrights were ignoring the principles of drama; he meant the classical principles exemplified by the tragedies of Seneca and the comedies of Plautus‚ Ben Jonson published his own plays in a grandiose format‚ and with a title (The Works of Benjamin Jonson)‚ that invited comparison with the editions of these same dramatists. The prologue to the first play in this collection‚ Every Man In His Humour*‚ announces that its author ’hath

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    Qualities of Indianness in Indian English Poetry Indian Poets writing in English around fifties have produced a fairly voluminous body of verse that is often deeply rooted in the traditional Indian sensibility and is yet strikingly modern in expression. The question of Indianness is not merely a question of the material of poetry‚ or even sensibility‚ it is tied up with the factor called the audience. Indian English poets write for Indian audience‚ but they also write quite inevitably‚ for non-Indian

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    certain articles and talks about fashion and how it can be a performance art‚ and how certain components relate to it to enhance and back up the idea that fashion is a performative art. | Can fashion be considered as a performative art or not? In my essay I will be referring to two main sources that indicate that it can be a performative art‚ showing a connection between fashion and music‚ how fashion/ style to communicate a meaning‚ how artists and designers whose work reflects the idea of fashion

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