... boss (Oberon). The net result was that the sexual aspect of the play's narrative was situated front and center, and the comedic sexual perversions therein seemed edgy and dirty to a contemporary audience of young adults. Ironically, I was able to manufacture the presumable reaction from Shakespeare's audience to the original text, which was risque in its time, through radically altering it to ... meet with the expectations of contemporary young adults, for whom the plot as written comes across as extremely tame. Finally, the environment of the nightclub in itself contributed to the "hip...

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... the new and original aspects of creativity. In the 1970's, bands such as "Dead Boys," the "Voidoids," and "The Ramones," were right at the core of punk, and poets and authors like Patti Smith and Jim Carroll composed prose and verse that critiqued society and the so-called "American Dream"." One venue, the Mercer Arts Center, was a kind of mall of ... Street." On many nights painted glitter dolls thronged the bar, decked in drag and finery. The lounge, called Obie Alley, was the scene of more than one severe case of contemporary culture-shock as the older, more mainstream conservative t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate