Drama

Traditional and shocking sometimes is not promising; Spike Lee’s 2015 film, Chiraq, is a hit or miss for audiences based on background knowledge of the Aristophanes’ Greek classic, Lysistrata. Although Lee keeps the same plot structure of classic comedy and adds new male characters, his lack of Lysistrata’s original famous wool metaphor has left the film fall flat. Lee’s views on the importance of the upcoming presidential are just lost in translation. In ancient Greece, the point of comedy was…

women facing many challenges like sexuality, desire, and growth a she changes from scene to scene. Marie has two love interest in Turk and Bruce that shed light on the character that Marie is. In Drama for students by David Galens, Sheri Metzger who is a professional writer who specializes in literature and drama states “Inge was ahead of his time when, through Lola, he points out the inequities between women and men…But there is a double standard governing the behavior of men and women.” (114…

carries the weight of a tragic flaw, and endures a tragic fall from society as the result of a poor decision. In Arthur Miller’s classic drama, The Crucible (1953), the character John Proctor is analyzed as a tragic hero because he is an important member of Salem, bears a tragic flaw, and experiences a tragic downfall due to a detrimental decision. In the drama, Proctor is a prominent member of the community. The reader determines this from the stage directions Miller employs to describe…

before the Restoration Period the theatres were closed in 1642. Playwrights such as John Gay began executing the use of satire as well as actor David Garrick changing the way actors performed. Restoration was a giant leap in the right direction for drama; it challenged the traditional views and poured the foundation for 21st century theater. John Gay was perhaps one of the most popular ballad opera writers of his time. He believed in “recycling” songs; he reworked already written plays and…

mob opera…” (Bradshaw, 2006). He later describes the film with the following sentence: “This is an unapologetic, unironised crime-family drama…” (Bradshaw, 2006) thus putting it in the genre of a crime-family drama film. The movie revolves around loyalty, betrayal; corrupt police officers and scheming gangsters so it follows most of the conventions of crime dramas. It deviates from genre conventions by providing a more in depth look at the lives of two different characters who work undercover…

Realism is the movement to represented truth as it has, Realistic drama is try to describe life in the point that we were in , that movement left from the rule melodramas of 1700s. It is spoken in theatre through the appeal of symbolism, character development, stage setting and is show in plays such as Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House , Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters and more important one is Noel coward' Vortex. The Vortex was the play which was written in 1924 by Noel Coward and this play…

Ironically, my attempt to separate myself from drama only became a drama. One incident around Christmas time became a huge fiasco that involved my family, social media and rude comments meant only to hurt. I think we all thought that being removed and in Chicago would remove the problem of these two bullies. Knowing…

mostly about the author’s opinions on theatre. This book is also written about sense, expression, art, imagination and set design/stage setting in the theater. As a reader this book really helped me to create an imagination of the situations in the dramas that the author presented. It also gave me a good understanding of what a theater looks like when the setting changes. Attending in theaters is another way to feel better in a positive way. In chapter one, the author discussed how an…

salon as the camera moves closer to Shelby as she has a medical problem occur. The music emphasis the pain, and shock she is going though at that very moment. This is simply one example, but the biggest example of music playing it’s emphases on the drama and emotion comes with the funeral scene close to the end of the film. After Shelby has died we briefly see the funeral play out and we see the pain and sadness over the faces of the main cast of characters as they slowly start to leave the…

That is called dramatic irony. Dramatic Irony is when you know more about the story that the character does. The drama Oedipus Rex is full of dramatic irony. For example we know Oedipus killed the king of Thebes but he does not nor does he know the man he killed was his father, we also know he married his mother. The fact that Oedipus does not know any of these things makes this drama dramatically ironic. The reader feels dramatic irony when Oedipus kills King Laius, when he marries his mother,…