... audience find themselves thrust into a heated conversation between two characters in the dead of night. This highly effective and engaging opening, forces the audience to simultaneously interpret the situation on stage and subconsciously establish a preference for one of the two characters immediately presented to them. Iago's impact on the audience is almost instantaneous, for his exclamation of ""Sblood" strongly differs from ... that surrounds him and the poetic language and vibrant imagery of Othello's speech intensifies this image of him. Thus, the first two scenes of Othello are h...

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... with two pipes, percussion and string instruments as the lyre which also coloured musically the poems of epic poets like Homer. It was in 534 B.C. that perhaps the most important stage in the creation of drama was reached with Thespis, who invented an actor who conversed with the leader of the chorus, and by his reports of events occurring off the ... stage could provide the chorus with materials for fresh songs in new scenes. Through the addition of a second actor (by Aeschylus) and a third (by Sophocles), the representation was made possible of a ... plays are seven tragedies by Aes...

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