Drama Essay Examples Page 38

Choose one character, imagine you are going to direct an actor playing this part. Write detailed advice about how you would want the part to be played, including specific references to lines and scenes and how you would expect an audience to react. In this essay I will be looking at the character Stanhope and…

Topic: Additional scene for Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” occurring shortly after Nora has left. Torvald receives a visit from Krogstad. (Scene: Torvald is standing, staring at the door that Nora just walked out of. Behind him, the fireplace is slowly going out. The door knocks then opens, and Krogstad walks in and stands next to…

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856. He moved to London at the age of twenty one where he began to meet the earliest British socialists. In 1884, he became one of the founder members of the Fabian Society, which promoted equality between people whatever their background or class. Shaw was a prolific…

J. B Priestly first describes Sheila as a ‘pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited’. She is of upper middle class, or ‘new money’. Women in Edwardian times did very different things depending on what class they were in. Working class women worked in places such as shops, factories,…

Page eleven is very near the beginning of the story, and so the page reveals the appearance of the green knight, the previous pages describe how the knights are in a banquet at Christmas and the page begins as they are about to start dinner. It starts of with ‘Now, on the subject of supper…

This is the first half of the speech, in which Kate seems to be showing her obedience. (Maybe as a result of the ‘subjugation’ – the audience must make up their own mind) I thought that the RSC version of the final scene was fantastic, as it wasn’t taken, as seriously as Zefirelli’s version, and…

In this scene when Miranda says “What is’t? A spirit?” she is referring to Ferdinand, they both have a similar response to each other; he also responds to her in wonder, ‘Most sure the goddess on whom these airs attend.’ Miranda and Ferdinand have fallen in love at first sight. This scene is very near the beginning of the…

There is a strong comparison between the innocence of a virginal child that can bring any man to love her and in his dreams he sees all the men that she has dangerously lured to their deaths on the side of the mountain, and once he awakes he finds that he has been treated the…

Both these men seem to be sad people who have no control over their own life and have no intention of actually making their lives more interesting, so they used fantasy to make sure they are happy with their lives. In my opinion they both consider their lives so bad now they don’t think they…

Richard realises that nobody actually likes him. This means that he has not fully succeeded in his dreams, as he previously thought he had. He had succeeded in success but in love and popularity, he was a failure. As Richard wakes up from his dream in Act V Scene iii, the audience feels sorry for…