For this reason there is a question over the true authorship of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. ... Another supportive fact is that at least one of his plays was written following Oxford's death. ... He had no background in the aristocracy and no apparent ability to write these sonnets and plays, demonstrating a commonplace individual in his own will. ... For these reasons one could conclude that perhaps the author of these plays and sonnets is Edward de Vere, the 17th, Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, or Queen Elizabeth I rather than the deprived William Shakespeare. ... Howev...

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One such play that uses the literary element of symbolism to its fullest extent is Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. ... In the play Macbeth, time is of much importance, however it is not the only novel of his that uses this symbol. ... At the end of the play, one of the characters Macduff explains that since Macbeth has been murdered, "The time is free". ... At the end of the play, Macbeth's head is displayed on a spike at the top of the castle to show their defeat over him. As it was said by Jan Kott who wrote Shakespeare Our Contemporary, "the subject of the play is murder, and the pre...

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Father-daughter relationships are of the most central issues examined in many plays. ... In comparing these two plays, many differences are evident. ... In the first act of the play, Catherine chooses to admit that it was she who wrote the proof. ... In the second scene of act two, Catherine realizes that in admitting that she wrote the proof, she is accepting her father's heritage. ... It is because of this technique that these plays achieve a poignant father-daughter connection as they set out to do....

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Overview/Analysis "Six Characters in Search of an Author" Luigi Pirandello wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author", and was later translated by Stanley Longman. ... Knowing that they would not be the focus of the play later on, I realized how much this assisted the focus of the play. ... The make-up was also helpful for people who had not read the play. ... When the cast fist made their appearance on the stage, I realized how the music (before the play actually started), foreshadowed the mysteriousness of the play. ... There were many things done with the lighting throughout the play...

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It is believed that Shakespeare wrote "Antony and Cleopatra" in 1606 after Macbeth and it is obviously one of his greatest plays. ... He wrote his play mostly based upon some historical facts, which helps forming the genre of the play. ... According to me, the play is both a historical play and a tragedy. ... In addition, the play is not really moralistic. ... It can still be discussed whether the play is a tragedy or a historical play but when the points are taken into consideration there can consequently be one correct answer to the question about the play's genre: it is both a histori...

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Before passion plays were formed in christianity, Easter plays represented dramas. ... Therefore, passion plays were created; first in Latin and then in German. ... The cities' people were now wealthy and could hold wonderful plays on public squares. ... Interest in passion plays rose again in the nineteenth century, as Oberammergau was attracting people from all over the world to their plays. ... They wrote the words Inri on the very top of the cross (which means: The King of Jews). ...

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Arthur Miller, who wrote both the play and the movie script, added several things to the play in order to get the desired effect for the movie-going audiences. ... There were many scenes missing in the play, which were found in the movie. ... This scene is never found in the play, we only hear of it through a dialogue in Act 1. ... In the play, Parris appeared to be overly egocentric and self-conscious. ... In the play, his personality is not so domineering as in the movie, where he is bordering on psychotic. ...

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Leading characters in the play Montague Family Old Montague and Lady Montague The parents of Romeo. They have no part in the action of the play, but they illustrate the family feud with the Capulets. ... At the beginning of the play he thinks that he is in love with Rosaline, a lady whom we never see. ... He is full of energy, which is shown in the way he uses words, always playing with two or more meanings in a single word. ... Juliet's Nurse When Shakespeare wrote his play, it was not fashionable for noble ladies (like Lady Capulet) to feed their own infants. ...

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In many novels, plays and stories, politics plays an important role in the story. ... More often than not, politics have a negative effect on the nation as is the case in the play Antigone and the book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera. ... In the play Antigone, the main character dies because she acted against the laws that Creon created. ... To conclude, we can see that politics play an important role in society. ... So once again, politics do play an important role in literature. ...

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By creating this overriding evil in the play, Miller positions the audience to take sides in this most basic of conflicts: good vs. evil. ... The characters themselves also help to make The Crucible the timeless play it is. ... Another thing The Crucible accomplishes to be a timeless play is its moral relevance to any society. ... Miller originally wrote The Crucible as an allegory about the 1950s American fear of Communism. ... The issues raised and the characters portrayed in The Crucible are what make the play so timeless. ...

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Measure for Measure a Problem Play Measure for Measure is considered to be a dark play because it partly focuses on evil. ... This subject was appropriate in 1604 when Shakespeare wrote Measure for Measure. ... The Duke remedies the play by marrying everybody off. Thus the play yields a satisfactory outcome in the terms of Christian moral doctrine. ... Also the play's comic sub-plot both reinforces the claustrophobic atmosphere and relieves it. ...

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"Shakespeare wrote his first play in 1592. ... Not many play writes wrote so many different types of plays in so short a time, but Shakespeare was certainly not like any other English play write (Timeline). ... Shakespeare wrote many plays, which were adaptations of earlier plots. ... However, Shakespeare wrote, produced, and sometimes even acted in his own plays. ... After his retirement, he wrote only one play, Henry VIII" (Hazlitt). ...

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This combination strongly influenced his plays and gives them a substantial notion of Russianess. The play Uncle Vanya is placed into a geographical setting of vastness. ... Russian attitudes towards life are noticeable throughout the play and Chekhov conveys most of these, using his characters. ... At one stage of the play, Serebriakov asks: "But where are the others? ... (Page 194) Voinitsky moreover, is in despair, realising, that the Russian country life also ruined the Professor's life: "Everything he wrote or uttered seemed to me the work of a genius. ...

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With this goal in mind he adds a detailed exposition of the background story to the beginning of the movie, to let the audience experience what is just told in stories in the original play. ... The film adapts the words of Williams' original play, though in a cut version. ... The characters in the film version are mostly congruent to the play, however Maggie presents an exception. ... In the final scene of the play Maggie takes charge of the situation, puts the liquor away and demands Brick to sleep in their bed instead on the sofa. ... The film version of Cat looses over its original, bu...

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The Globe Theatre is a theatre that was dedicated to all of Shakespeare's work and the place in which he wrote plays to be performed. The theatre is located in London and it looks to me that basically all they ever play there is the classic Romeo and Juliet and something called Much Ado about nothing. ... The life of William actually has been divided into four periods, the first involved experimenting, the second he achieved personal style and approach, the third was a dark period because he wrote all of his tragedies and really difficult comedies, known as problem plays because they le...

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In 1922 he wrote his first success, Drums in the Night. ... In 1924 he wrote his first professional production Edward II. In 1927 he wrote A manual of Piety. ... In 1930 he wrote The Rise and Fall of the Town of Mahogany. Also during this year he wrote his first "exemplary plays," A Man's Man, which introduced his unorthodox idea of "epic theatre." ...

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In 1595 he wrote Romeo and Juliet, Julius Ceaser, and Hamlet, just to name a few. ... From 1601-1607, he wrote such plays as King Lear and Macbeth. ... She had absolutely adored Shakespeare's plays. His company performed a total of 32 plays there. ... The plays he wrote from 1608-1611 include The Tempest, and the Winters Tail. ...

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William had the privilege of seeing his very first play when he was only four years old (Chute 11). ... Between 1590 and 1603, Shakespeare wrote approximately 26 plays. ... He continued acting while he wrote, however, he was well known for his writing, not acting (Levi 189). For the greater part of his career, Shakespeare wrote for one group of actors, and for it he created about 30 plays, half of them to be given in one theatre (Grose 34). He wrote many plays, which include several that were and now are well known, such as Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, Othello, ...

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Alcott wrote from play writes, to poems, to novels, to short stories. Louisa wrote many works for entertainment. ... She started out by writing poems and plays. ... The first play Louisa wrote was "The Bandit's Bride, and The Moorish Maiden's vow." ... She wrote this novel in request of her publisher. ...

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Sousa wrote many types of music, from songs to orchestral suites, from operettas to waltzes, from marches to symphonic poems. ... Sousa wrote five novels and an autobiography in 1928. Sousa played his works in theaters and dance orchestras. ... He wrote the words to these as well as the music. ... Sousa gave concerts in both America and Europe, and played classics along with his famous marches. ...

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Whether it was a play or a poem that she composed, Behn paved the way for women to write back in the 1600's. ... Aphra Behn strictly wrote for money and public acclaim. ... This separated Behn from most women writers in her day because, most women wrote for sheer pleasure or "fame" among friends. ... This is because she wrote plays that appealed to many people far and wide, not just a few. ... Behn's wealth and independence played a significant part in her ability to create her work at the time she did. ...

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He wrote and published an enormous amount of poetry and critical prose, several books of short stories, a number of plays, and four novels, all while pursuing a full-time practice as a medical doctor. ... He wrote stories, plays and autobiographies as well as poems. ... Williams also wrote essays, some of which are collected in In the American Grain (1925). ...

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Miles Davis and John Coletrane Miles, The Autobiography, this book, written by Miles Davis, is the autobiography that he wrote a few years before he died. ... He learned how to play trumpet while in high school on the trumpet that his father gave to him for his 13th birthday. ... Miles then sort of disappeared from the view of the public eye between 1975 and 1981, but even when he came back, he wasn't as into playing anymore as he had used to be. He played again a couple times before he died in 1991 at 65 years old. As for the author's description of the book, it was all first person...

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Later in the year he saw the play The Rivals playing the lead, Captain Absolute, was the British actor Henry Irving, a person who would play a major role in Bram's life. ... After graduation he assumed a position as the unpaid drama critic for the "Evening Mail," he also wrote short stories on the side. ... In 1876 Henry Irving returned to Dublin, Stoker went to see Irving in the play Hamlet. ... Irving then returned to London to star in the play The Lyon's Mail. ... About this same time the publishing house of Sampson, Lowe wrote to Stoker expressing interest in a collection of his ...

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As Oscar Wilde wrote: "There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies"1. ... Revenge might be a theme on the surface of the play. ... As revenge might be the engine of the play, the play is primarily describing Hamlet's inner struggle to take action. ... This way the fundamentality of the play is kept. ... "Hamlet is a tragedy, the tragedy of a genius", wrote John D. ...

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