connection to physical reality and social existence make some of the key modernist principles inapplicable` is the conclusion that Christopher Innes draws in his treatise on Modernism in Drama.1 Still‚ Innes attributes a `modernist vision` to both Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter with regard to their engagement as playwrights.2 Drawing on this emerging discrepancy the following analysis takes a closer look at Waiting for Godot as well as The Caretaker. Accordingly‚ both plays are analysed with regard
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modeling herself after contralto Marian Anderson‚ tenor Roland Hayes‚ Warfield‚ and other great black concert singers. In November 1954‚ Price made her recital debut at New York’s Town Hall with a program that featured the New York premiere of Samuel Barber’s "Hermit Songs"‚ with the composer at the piano. Then‚ opera opened its
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Museum Visit Paper – Ante Meridian by Frederick Waugh ART 101 My family and I recently visited the Orlando Museum of Art in Orlando‚ Florida. The museum enjoys a seemingly eclectic collection of artifacts‚ sculptures‚ photographs‚ and paintings. While perusing the gallery I was fascinated by one painting in particular. The piece was called “Ante Meridian”‚ oil on board‚ c.a. 1935 by Frederick Judd Waugh (American 1861-1940). This representational painting was of a presumably north eastern
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Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” explores an existence in an era when the importance of being is incessantly challenged by man’s newfound recognition of the universes absurdity and lack of observable meaning. Written in 1957‚ the context of the world at the time of this work’s creation sheds much insight on its themes. In a time of continuous social and technological change scientific observations began yielding a more accurate picture of causality for the world and its phenomena; and the concept of god
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Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare “The Preface is the impartial estimate of Shakespeare’s virtues and defects by a powerful mind”. (Halliday). Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare is a classic of literary criticism in which he is above his political personal‚ religious and literary prejudices: mentions both the merits and One of the first excellence of Shakespeare‚ as Preface shows: “Shakespeare is above all the writers‚ at least above the modern writers‚ the poet of nature; the poet that holds up
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aesthetics of eighteenth-century literature: the mock-heroic and neoclassical (and‚ by extension‚ aristocratic) approach ofAugustans such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift; and the popular‚ domestic prose fiction of novelists such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson. The novel draws on a variety of inspirations. Written "in imitation of the manner of Cervantes‚ the author of Don Quixote" (see title page on right)‚ the work owes much of its humour to the techniques developed by Cervantes‚ and its subject-matter
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Samuel Beckett explores the purposelessness of life‚ lack of meaning and memory in Waiting for Godot. Aspects such as repetition‚ change‚ recognition‚ blind faith‚ silences and pauses illustrated the forgetfulness and purposelessness of the lives of Vladimir and Estragon. ‘Waiting’ is doing both something and nothing simultaneously; Vladimir and Estragon recognize this which is why they are in search for something to ‘do’. VLADIMIR: We are happy. ESTRAGON: We are happy. (Silence.) What do
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The Birth of the Republic Edmund S. Morgan Notes James Otis – 1765 “Were these colonies left to themselves tomorrow‚ America would be a mere shambles of blood and confusion . . . . there would soon be civil war from one end of the continent to the other.” 20 years later these same people united to create a government that has had a longer continuous existence than that of any Western country except England. P. 8 - Colonial governors helpless to take action without the assistance of the
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Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary edited and annotated by Cari Beauchamp is collection of letters written by Valeria Belletti to friend Irma Prina describing her adventures in the developing filmmaking business in the 1920s. In her letters‚ she talked about her various encounters with the stars and movie moguls‚ shared the gossip going around the lot‚ and kept her friend informed on what was happening in her personal life. The letters begin in the fall of 1924‚ after Valeria became so enchanted
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impartial to everyone. The average age of Supreme Court judges (as of 2010) is 64.1 years as opposed to 70‚ which what it was in 2005. This is because of the recent judges put into the Supreme Court. They are: Chief Justice Roberts (55)‚ Justice Samuel Alito (60)‚ Justice Sonia Sotomayor (56)‚ and Justice Elena
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