Drama

Gender roles are portrayed through the complementary theme of love and marriage; the play provides an insight into the motives, pressures and expectations of individuals previous to, and whilst wedded.

“ The explicit and implicit subjects of this play - arranged marriages, the authority of fathers and husbands, the obedience expected from daughters and wives, the economic helplessness of most women - were issues and experiences that touched the lives of everyone in Shakespeare’s audience.” – Dorothea Kehler

One of the controversial issues shown in William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet is teenage sexuality. During the Shakespeare’s time, teenage sexuality was different than it is today. Not only did the relationship process change since then, but so did the way of life. Everything seemed to have happened at a younger age and much quicker which did not allow for full physical and emotional development. The attitude towards teenage sexuality has changed significantly since Shakespeare’s time because of the changes in courtship and customs and traditions.

The play explores the gender inequality, marriage, obedience and its importance in relationships and the social subjugation of females. The story of Kat and Patrick’s relationship in the movie shows that you shouldn’t judge people on appearances. Patrick thinks there is no way he could actually like Kat but in the end she turns out to be the girl he falls in love with. At the beginning of the film Michael walks through the courtyard with Cameron and informs him about the different social groups at Padua High School. This shows the way high school is often perceived in real life. The scene, with a long camera shot, shows how judgmental they are putting everyone into groups and putting a label on them. The examples of Kat and Patrick show us that people can be different compared to how they first

In this time period, women were the objects that men could ogle over, buy, and use to their liking. She ends saying, "Now as then the theater apparatus is geared to profit a pleasure, and overwhelmingly controlled by males" (Diamond 536). This is still happening today. Women get tight fitting or revealing costumes, they parade themselves onstage for people to see. While the theatre has changed and transformed we still have this sexualized female role. This article can help us look at the theatre today because we can take it and use it to analyze more recent works of theatre. A lot of new theatre focuses on being fresh and trendy and while this is great that we are breaking away from the mold, there are still hints of influence from other writers. While both women and men are a big part of the theatre most business people are men, and even though the theatre is an art it is also a business. This article can influence us in the modern day to look at all aspects of theatre and find out what is actually being done and being influenced by old writers or old

For this unit we focused on ‘Find Me’ text written by Olwen Wymark. The text is about a woman ‘ Verity’ who is sent to Broadmoor prison for burning a chair. Throughout this unit we performed and worked on pieces on text and off text, looking at different periods of Verity’s life.

Since Hamlet possesses a superiority complex and a distrust for women, he fails to treat the women in his life that he loves in a respectful and equal manner. Hamlet holds an exceptionally diverse perspective in regards to sexuality and it’s meanings to both sexes. Although he never physically mistreats her, Hamlet uses a possessive manner to emotionally downgrade his girlfriend, Ophelia, throughout the narrative. Young Hamlet uses a variety of insults towards his mother, but speaks more of his feelings about her in private. His mother’s disloyalty to her late husband result in an array of disfunction in Hamlet’s social life.

Buddy wonders aimlessly alone in the dog park, contemplating whether or not he should confess his love to Snowball, the cat next door. Meanwhile, Snowball and her feline lover, Nibbles, are discussing the textures of last night’s pilchard and jelly dinner, whilst cuddling and shedding their fur on their owner’s couch. Buddy finally decides to ‘dog up’ and admit he has strong feelings for Snowball. He runs to her house, but sees her and Nibbles licking each other’s faces in content. Nibbles sees Buddy outside the window and proudly strides out to confront him.

When one looks at a glacier, it is impossible to tell the depth. It is only upon closer inspection that the true extent can be known. This superficial example can be applied to the vast majority of literary works. The first time reading something, it is easy to miss out on the importance of certain phrases, themes, or even the entire purpose. Upon reading “Lust” by Susan Minot, it is easy to just write this story off as a girl’s sexual journey through adolescence, but that analysis merely scratches the surface. “Lust” cleverly discusses both misogyny and rape culture through its narrative told from the perspective of a nameless teenage girl. Minot discusses double standards and gender roles which enables her to shed light on the normalized

“How would a modern audience view this play in a different way to an audience in Shakespeare’s time, particularly in relation to the role and status of women and attitudes to marriage and courtship?

The engaging plot of the play is a major reason for its success. The story is filled with uncertainties faced by the youth coming of age. The different sexual, emotional, and career related change going on in the lines of the protagonists is portrayed in a tasteful manner, the plot still mentions contemporary issues such as gay right, racism, and pornographic addiction; the portrayal

In modern age, society finally accepts homosexuality,other sexual orientations, and gender identity became a more acceptable concept.However, even though it became acceptable once again in the twenty first century. Literature throughout the ages depicted different sexual orientation and gender identification. The play Twelfth Night made produced by William Shakespeare discusses the topics of sexuality during the early 17th century. The articles Gender Trouble in ‘Twelfth Night by Casey Charles agrees that the main central theme of this play is associated with gender identification and sexuality. However,the article “Rings and Things” in Twelfth Night:Gift Exchange, Debt and the Early Modern Matrimonial Economy by Stephanie Chamberlain examines the play having more to do with economically obligations that was occurring during that time instead of sexuality orientation. Due the different claims of the two authors, it makes the reader question what is this play by Shakespeare identifying as its central idea of focus. Is it about sexuality and how society might be disgusted by some individuals or the economically and materialistic problems that society faces?

Shakespeare plays provide a broad and fluid platform for post-modern theatre makers to explore upon various subjects. Yet, it is particularly interesting when actors are dancing around with genders and sexualities with Shakespeare text, however ahead of time he was, which was written in a time that women and queer were oppressed or not acknowledged.

I have to say, this play was intriguing to me, with the three interlocking plots, all of which surrounding a common theme; marriages. I am not familiar with this play outside of this class, I had wanted to see the Hollywood adaptation with Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Stanley Tucci, but I never got around to it. To be honest, I didn’t identify with any of the characters or the plot itself, which caused great difficulty in choosing an angle for this paper.

In the play, queerSpawn, Mallery Avidan tells a story about a young boy and his desire to escape his small town. The protagonist, The Kid, is having issues adjusting to his small town and their hateful antics towards him and his mothers. The Kid wants to leave the town, but he does not know where to go. Besides, he does not want to leave his own mother behind. In the play, The Kid is going through a lot. At school, he deals with bullies, and the people around town, look at him as if he were an outcast. Indeed, The Kid definitely has a difficult life. However, the life of the character The Kid could be told in a female’s perspective. In consideration of The Kid being told in a female perspective, the entire cast should be depicted as