Double play

Wordplay is used extensively in all of Oscar Wilde’s plays, and perhaps never more so than in The Importance of Being Earnest, where every scene is peppered with double entendres, puns and aphorisms. The world of the play is a high parody of Victorian society at the time – it both follows the rules and doesn’t; norms are undermined through wordplay, and language is endlessly adaptable through puns and paradoxes. Sos Eltis notes of the characters in this play that “nothing stands in the way of their self-creation

and in his book The Theater and It’s Double he explains how the totality of the work is given power through language and the mise in scene. This essay will consider how anti-theater incorporates these aspects of a play in the works of Luigi Pirandello and Anton Chekhov. According to Artaud, “Theater will not be given its specific powers of actin until it is given its language”. This type of language involves more than a character saying his lines in a play. This language includes the intonations

film is originally a play West wrote in 1928, but due to censorship and ticket sales many of her plays’ productions were shut down. Although she is not given credit as screenwriter, West continuously kept writing and re-writing her material so the adaptation of the play would work as film. Unlike many Hollywood starlets, production companies were not hiring West to play specific roles in their films to bring in audiences, but West was writing scripts and creating characters to play roles she knew audiences

A composer depends entirely upon the nature of the film for all the clues needed to write a suitable score for a film. Brought into the production after a certain amount of film has been shot, the films concept will dictate how the composer will write the music. Whether based on the story line, or providing information by setting an atmospheric state, film music will always have different purposes between different films. Penguin Ballet by Nigel Westlake was composed to focuses upon the graceful

rights regardless of their offences. The Bill of Rights consist of many amendments provided to the people to protect them from the government. However, the offences committed are observed according to the severity of the case. The Fifth Amendment plays a vital role on how a person is prosecuted and its importance in the criminal justice system. It covers a broad range of rights a person has and procedures the judicial system must follow in order to make a proper conviction. According to Gaines and

up of two violins and a cello, and the ripieno is made up of strings and a continuo. For the first 20 bars of the piece, the two solo violins play unaccompanied. The second movement (the Adagio e spiccato) is extremely short (only three bars long), and the instrumentation is tutti, as everyone is playing. In the third movement the solo cello does not play as the solo violins converse with each other. The Concerto is in D minor, and rarely changes key, however it does modulate briefly to the subdominant

It is only partially hollowed out. Hofner's Beatle bass is a good example. Its the violin shaped bass that Sir Paul McCartney often plays. The double bass, or upright bass has many different names. My favorite is the doghouse bass. This bass is often used in jazz. People play this by plucking or slapping the bass. Another common use is in orchestras. People play this style with bows. This bass is the largest and lowest pitched instrument of the viol family. The viol family contain the viola, violin

Double Indemnity is a classic film noir that has set the stage for other films of the same genre. Containing themes of imminent danger, fatalism, and drama, the film artfully uses a series of cinematic techniques to tell the story of Walter Neff and his seductive partner-and-crime, Phyllis Dietrichson. By carefully analyzing the first minute and a half of the film, one can get a sense of how particular factors of the opening scene (such as lighting, sound, and set) both heighten the drama at the

movie The Silence of the Lambs, one's opinion of this may change. This phrase can be classified as a "double entendre," or a figure of speech which can be interpreted in two different ways. Another example of a double entendre is the title of Arthur Miller's play, Death of a Salesman, because not only does a salesman literally die, but so does the false dream of becoming one. Within this play lies a spiral of insecurity and arguments between father and son who both struggle with their self-images

Even though the times have changed, many characteristics from the past still impact the world of art today. Characteristics from the Baroque period, Classical period, and Romantic period have had their share of impact on today’s society. In order to fully develop an overall understanding of how defining each of these eras are, one must expose themselves to the vastly varying eras’ music, and other art forms including paintings. First in chronological order of these three eras, is the Baroque Era