In realism, the playwrights tried to be as objective as possible whilst focusing on the mundane issues in everyday life, such as politics and economics or, with playwrights like Henrik Ibsen, the role of women in society. Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright who is considered the father of realistic drama. His plays, all of which attacked society’s values, dealt with unconventional and shocking subject matter. However, he perfected the well-made play formula, which was developed by Eugene Scribe, and thereby made his shocking plays relatively acceptable. Some other subject Ibsen addressed included euthanasia (In the play “Ghosts”), war and business and the reality of STD’s like syphilis (“Ghosts”).
In Mel Gibson’s version of Hamlet, Hamlet’s acting is outstanding because while watching the play we can see the effort and talent Gibson has put in the movie. Gibson knows what his lines are and he exactly knows what his actions are. His acting is so natural because while he was acting the audience can feel the pain he is suffering through. Another difference in both versions of the movie is; in Kenneth’s version it does not seem that the play is acted in the theatre, but it is done by professionals. Kenneth’s version is filmed as Hamlet family is very royal and rich; also the house is a mansion.
It has bonded them, as Becca proves when she kisses Gemma as the Prince kissed the princess in the tale. The importance of this story is obvious form the way they defend it from outsiders “that’s how it goes in this house”. The fact that Becca dresses up as a princess for Halloween conveys that it has helped shape her character. She later travels to Poland to find “the maker of the spells”, revealing how the story has developed her relationship with Gemma and now become part of her own life “I’m going to solve it, the riddle, the mystery and the enigma”. Through the constant retelling of the story, and the understanding of its importance to not only Gemma but also to Becca, the audience realises the value of all tales, whether containing truth or not, in our
What plays might it be compared to? What is the effect of mingling comedyand tragedy in the same play?9. Bertold Brecht was one of the great innovators of the twentieth-century stage because of his "epic theater"; manycritics have seen a similarity between Brecht and Wilder's works, and this despite the fact that their politicalviews are very different from each other. Read Brecht's Mother Courage (also a war play) and discuss howBrecht and Wilder use non-realistic staging. What are the similarities?
Four centuries on and heading into a new millennium, rising from the grave like Lazarus, Naomi Teng explores the value of resurrecting Shakespeare’s works into 21st century films. A spoonful of comedy, a teaspoon of romance and a bucketful of tragedies, mixed all together with poetry creates a spectacular play by Shakespeare. Shakespeare was a legendary writer who shaped the poetic, English and theoretical world but why should we continue to learn about his plays? How will it benefit us as teenagers? His plays have great depth and knowledge which are things that people in the modern society can learn from.
Both ‘Summer of the Seventeenth Doll’ by Ray Lawler and ‘The removalists’ by David Williamson have explored the different ways people cope when things change or go wrong. Both playwrights use the style of realism to portray themes which depict changing circumstances on the stage and show how different characters respond. Ray Lawler and David Williamson use the techniques of relevant idiom, staging, costume and symbolism, all conventions of realism, to explore the themes of stereotypes, the changing of traditions and violence. In the early 20th century Australia was searching for its national identity. Plays up until this point in time were traditional melodramatic English plays.
A relationship can be defined as an alliance between two or more people, it is often also a connection, an involvement or an association, typically though it requires commitment and dependence from either of those who are participants in that particular conjunction. Pygmalion is the great play script written by George Bernard Shaw, it was first presented publicly on stage in 1912, although it is extremely ancient, it has not lost fame.Bernard Shaw uses the play Pygmalion to also comment upon the conflict which exists between the sexes. This conflict is most clearly brought out through the relationship between Eliza and Henry Higgins.Pygmalion is a play based on phonetics, it is the transformation of a flower girl, who becomes a duchess over a short period of time, through a professor named Higgins. As seen as, Eliza becomes a student or rather a bet on Higgins. Throughout the course in which Eliza is learning to become a duchess, her and Higgins form a relationship, not one of love, instead it is quite trough.
The sentimental elements and the unsentimental malice a livelier, more dramatic impression from their contrast: and the contrast itself makes the dolling life of the play more interesting to an audience. There is plenty in the play to interest men and women of a refined and idle society and plenty more to amuse men and women of a coarser type and as for the idealist and the dreaming lover – they have food enough and to spare. Music and love and high courtesies interchanged in courtly gardens are jollity and practical jokes and a riot of laughter. Although there are a few blemishes in the dramatic technique of Twelfth Night, it is superior in the point of delight and in its comic aspect to the other comedies of Shakespeare. The platonic love is consummately represented in the Derke.
When you hear romanticism, you think lovey dovey? No. It is actually a time frame in the 19th century that was a reaction against much of the thought of the Enlightenment. You could say it was a challenge against the Enlightenment views of not only human beings but of the natural world. The Romantic writers and artist used imagination but in the end it was all reality, where everyone really understood it.
Romanticism and realism Romanticism Romanticism gained fame and momentum as a movement of art in the early 19th century and flourished till the 1850s. It was popular in France and Britain. Romanticism, which emerged as a reaction to the disillusionment with enlightenment involving order and reason after the 1789 French revolution, stressed on emotion and imagination. In romantic art, nature provided an appropriate alternative to the thoughts of enlightenment. In this case, nature was considered as unpredictable, had a great potential for extreme disasters and had uncontrollable power.