Shakespeare wrote his plays to appeal to Elizabethan audiences. Much of the text is dated or archaic and is initially unknown to the typical student. Yet upon thorough study, the student will gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of Shakespeare's words and the English language. Despite the difficulty that dated text presents, the passions and emotions described by Shakespeare touch the hearts of his readers and audience, students included. Vivid imagery and poetic descriptions are presented effectively and have a great impact on the audience.
Bringing a character on stage to life can be a difficult task. You have to find the right voice, body language, clothing, and the right expressions. In my high school the theatre students were so outgoing and creative. I admired them for their ability to take a brief description of a character and recreate that character on stage. Bret has this admirable quality.
Shakespeare uses clever adjectives throughout the play, this enable to audience to fully understand the characters within the play. In the first act Macbeth is described as loyal, brave and noble, which portrays that Macbeth is a hero. The witches play a crucial part in the play Macbeth, as they are the ones who encourage such drastic character change from both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Shakespeare has cleverly used the character of “witches" to portray a negative image straight away in the audience mind. “Speak I charge you” shows that Macbeth is more interested than he is trying to show.
We realised there were more characters in the extract than people in our group, so when designating specific roles to the different members of the group, one person was given the task of playing two characters, whom very often had lines one after the other. Although this was confusing to everyone at the start, we soon got used to the idea of a dual character. Again, we read over the script a few more times and gradually grew accustomed to our roles and how our players react to and treat the other characters in the play; we felt it would look more authentic and would help us to get in to the play more ourselves. I think everyone was satisfied with their respective given roles and with no friction, it would prove to be easier to learn lines for a character you have interest in rather than in one you don’t. Preparation: We had never done a piece of absurd theatre before, so this was a new challenge for us.
Gabrielle Casey June 1, 2012 English 10 Honors Period 2 Persuasive Essay Language is a powerful and manipulated flow of words that captures the true and false emotions of people and objects. Through language we are able to use it to get whatever they want. In William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, he uses persuasive language to capture the audience. Among all the characters in Julius Caesar, Calphurnia and Brutus persuasive in their own ways but Antony’s persuasive technique is what helped him be one of the rulers in the end. Even though women are seen as weak, Calphurnia has an effect on Julius Caesar.
Performances that stood out the most among the cast include Moses Howard as Don Pedro and David Shadman as Benedick. Moses showed lots of confidence and strife; his charisma fit the character for Don Pedro perfectly. David also showed a lot of confidence, and made the funny parts much more enjoyable. I believe that these two actors were the star of the show, and they did a lot to contribute to the play’s humor and quality. My favorite parts of the play were when Benedick and Beatrice finally married and whatever scene the cops were in.
Foil Characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet By : Sassi Saddam Outline : • Introduction • Hamlet • Foil Characters in Hamlet • Conclusion I) Introduction : William Shakespeare is the most read, studied and famous English playwright. The majority of his plays share one very important aspect which allows them to be considered masterpieces: Rich and deep characters. Shakespeare’s characters are usually deep, because he takes the time to develop them throughout the plays; they are more real, less predictable, less linear in their behaviour. That is one characteristic that takes Shakespearean Drama one step away from Classic Drama where the plot and characters, as brilliant as they might be, were most often Manichean. This brings us to another trait these characters share: They are incredibly rich; their unpredictability and randomness makes it easy to make them behave in almost any way, his heroes are not super and omnipotent people, his antagonists are not the devil himself, hence, there is black and white, good and evil everywhere in Shakespearean Drama.
Allie Cheek English 1102 Julia Maher 14 October, 2011 End Rhyme in The Tempest There are many striking elements to Shakespeare’s prose that make it both magnificent to read and difficult to understand. One way Shakespeare does this is by crafting his work in a way that makes it rewarding to a reader once he or she is able to work through the language, eventually figuring out just what Shakespeare was trying to say. Shakespeare speaks in a language that we, in today's modern culture, are completely unfamiliar with. As a result, readers today are left mystified, blaming their misunderstanding on the cultural gap; but perhaps this is exactly the way that Shakespeare intended the reader to respond, even as he wrote it four hundred years ago. Within his works, Shakespeare writes with elaborate language but carefully includes contextual clues in the prose to aid readers in understanding.
Prologue and Act One scene One. Romeo and Juliet Is a famous play written by Shakespeare. This is a well know play for the endless love between Rome and Juliet and how it is a tragic play of forbidden love because of an ancient grudge between both families , but in fact Shakespeare makes it clear that the play contains allot of conflict and it actually includes more violence than love. In the Prologue the audience is presented with a brief summary of the play. This informs the audience as it helps them decide whether the play is worth watching from the beginning.
‘A classic is something everyone wants to do have read and nobody wants to read’. This was said by Mark Twain, a statement containing much truth in our nowadays society. A case of this is Macbeth. We hear references to Macbeth everywhere. Characters from other plays are based on characters from Macbeth such as the evil and manipulative Lady Macbeth for example the character of Nikki Reed in the movie ‘Cherry Crush’.