... play was "A Midsummer Nights Dream" and is the text I have been prescribed to do my specialist study on. I have chosen to study the aspect of design, and to focus on set, costume, and make up. However, before designing anything, I had to carry out extensive research into the social, historical and ... theatrical context in which the play was written, and how this would relate to any modern day design concepts. England in 1598 was under the reign of Queen Elizabeth the first. Religiously, the country was changing- although QE1 did not ban Catholicism, ... costume both times. However, cos...

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... The wayside blue and innocent heal-all? What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design to appal?- If design govern in a thing so small. Frost uses the colour white to provide an ironic contrast throughout the poem. He first uses white to describe the ... , the famous line "Fair is foul and foul is fair" (Shakespeare) is introduced. This line provides an ironic theme for "Macbeth". Frost illustrates this theme in "Design" in the second stanza. In the second stanza, the narrator questions the coincidence of how the white spi...

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... The most important speech in the play deserved a bit more than just that. Another technique that was used effectively in this scene was set design. Set design improved the quality of the scene as when Gibson said the monologue he walked over to a statue of a dead King in a cemetery and ... and copied the script word by word, having no originality to keep the audiences plugged for the whole bit. Therefore, elaborate costumes and set design and intense acting and direction made the Zeffirelli version a high-quality movie to watch. The lack of such techniques made Branagh's movie boring, ...

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... changed from day to night. I felt that the scenery was realistic and very suiting to the performance. Moreover, I also felt that the lighting design added to the ambiance of this play. Light was used well for dramatic effect when the time changed from day to night. Visibility and focus, ... the primary considerations of lighting design were also accomplished successfully in the production of this play. The characters were always lit so that they were visible without distraction. Another positive ... historical marker. There is such a variety that I would have a difficult time guessing w...

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... on stage and in the study the fact that the play offers more than the remarkable (and oft-remarked) Falstaff. The irrepressible knight strains against but does not overwhelm the design of the play as it now appears on stage and in critical accounts. Indeed today, the play is far more likely to be Hal's play than Falstaff's, the story of ... it explores the process by which authority is achieved and the nature of the state in which it is exercised. In its very amplitude, Henry IV reveals its own compelling design -- and one that articulates Shakespeare's most complex and humane version o...

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... intellectual and cultural assumptions of Bottom, the author and the audience. Meanwhile the definite movement from spiritual transformation to dream is referred to as art. This mirrors the informing structure design of the play as a whole. The art form now becomes a way containing and triumphing over unbearable reality. "Consider, then, we come but in despite. We do not come, as minding ... ...

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... is that of the imagery of darkness. In a Shakespearean tragedy a special tone, or atmosphere must be created to show the darkness and blackness in a tragedy. In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses the design of the witches, the guilt in Macbeth's soul, and the darkness of the night to establish the atmosphere. All of the remarkable scenes take place at night or in some ... ...

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... intellectual and cultural assumptions of Bottom, the author and the audience. Meanwhile the definite movement from spiritual transformation to dream is referred to as art. This mirrors the informing structure design of the play as a whole. The art form now becomes a way containing and triumphing over unbearable reality. "Consider, then, we come but in despite. We do not come, as minding ... ...

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... plays from writers, and the writer had no further input in the production of the play. However, Shakespeare wrote, produced, and sometimes even acted in his own plays. He helped design costumes and props for the play, so it was presented exactly as he intended. Although times were bad in England, and the company struggled with money, Queen Elizabeth supported the ... ...

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... worked hard for to earn it. Othello's jealousy and misjudgments breaks Othello and Desdemona's marriage apart, which ruins an otherwise perfect love affair with Desdemona, is caused by Iago's evil design but however in the beginning of the play we do see a deep love connection between Othello and Desdemona quote (" Othello: But that I love the gentle Desdemona-). This quote shows how ... ...

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... as, the actors absorbing more words faster, much like "our music videos today". The staging of the performance was at "the Curtain" and was pretty much fixed in one set design and the only way the setting was really changed was through the imagination of the audience with the help of the narrator. There was also a utilization of music during the ... ...

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... to all the interesting characters of Twelfth Night, the play itself is the most delightful, harmonious, and accomplished of Shakespeare's romantic comedies. There are striking differences of opinion over the design of Twelfth Night (McCurdy, 1953). Some think that the play is a vindication of romance and some think it is a depreciation of romance. It could be mainly a love story or a comedy ... ...

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... , allows the audience to realise that the suffering had meaning and significance. Casson allowed this interpretation to be physically seen through the fine use of colour and splendor, impressive interior design of the castles, with elegantly cut costumes, jewelry and accessories, reflecting the specific historic period and the optimistic view. Hence, as "King Lear" revolves around the concept of world order ... ...

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... , he wants to abdicate his power, yet maintain the status that is attached to it. Imre Csiszar's Marxist interpretation of the play communicates the sabotaging of power structures through set design, costuming and characterisation. The play was a modern parable about the dangers of industrial greed and need for absolute power, with the setting being a microcosm of 1980s Europe. The play was ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate