Drama Essay Examples Page 37

Much Ado About Nothing is a play about love, relationships, truth and illusion, reality and disguise, trickery, deception, male honor and female virtue, and villainy. This play set in Messina, Sicily and is based around about the contrasting relationships of two couples – the witty and unconventional couple of Benedick and Beatrice, who are described…

The scene opens with Macbeth talking to the Lords at the banquet he has thrown to celebrate his coronation. The Lords thank him for this and then Macbeth then talks about how he would, “mingle with society” rather than be a dictator. In the BBC 2 stage production, the most striking aspects at the opening…

When ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ was written around 1593-1594, the working classes and servants made up the vast majority of the British population. This led to common social stereotyping of the servant classes. This can be clearly seen in some of Shakespeare’s early plays including ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. In this play there…

The wives of the two tales, May and Dorigen, are also two opposite characters. May is an unfaithful wife who does not agree to the marriage contract that she signed with January. After a very short time, May becomes tired of January and she commits adultery with her lover, Damian. “Ah, how she wept, fresh…

J. P. Morgan once remarked that “A man has two reasons for what he does- a good one, and a real one. ” These words reflect upon the stark difference between appearance and reality. The play, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen illustrates this difference greatly. Set in Norway in the nineteenth century, the play…

“An Inspector calls” was set in 1917, a time of contentment prior to World War 1. This smugness is reflected in the Birling family but is soon disturbed by the inspector. We realise this character is far more than an ordinary policeman from the very beginning. The audience recognises this because of his abrupt arrival,…

After having read ‘Hobson’s Choice’, by Harold Brighouse, I am to concentrate on the remarkable character of Maggie Hobson. When we first get introduced to Maggie Hobson, we notice into the play that, she is very different from her two younger sisters, Alice and Vicky. The sisters are under the control of their father, but…

Helmer is one of the central characters of A Doll’s House. At the beginning of the play he is seen as the loving husband, a little patronising, but kind and caring nevertheless. However, by the end of the play our views of him have changed, he is not seen as such an admired figure. Throughout…

“A Doll’s House” deals with the position of women in matters of marriage and society in the 19th century. To what extent do you agree that these ideas were ahead of their time? The inspiration for A Doll’s House came from the tragic events that happened to Laura Kieler a young woman Ibsen met in1870….

Analyse the dramatic qualities of Mr. Birling’s speech on pages 9/10 of Act1 of ‘An Inspector Calls’ and the Inspector Goole’s speech on page 56 of Act 3. Your analysis must me related to the dramatic methods Priestly uses and their impact on the audience then and now. You must also show an understanding of…