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    “number one man” in a more business-minded fashion. One explanation of the modern American dream could be found in the drama, Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller implements within the drama various characters’ American dreams. This drama reveals the corruption in the process of acquiring the American dream because everyone feels the necessity to be superior, including the main character, Willy. Therefore, in the drama, Death of a Salesman, playwright Arthur Miller utilizes dramatic irony

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    include creating illusions, sound effects, and amplifying voice. Verbatim theater developed from real life speeches and interviews such as the Black Watch which includes Scottish soldier interviews. Dangerous theater has developed from violence through modern anxieties such as war. This has affected the language in production which uses foul language. In the physical theater, you have expressive movements, dancing, music, and lighting. In this theater, the use of speech and dramatic choreography are essential

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    William Wycherley Essay

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    The restoration era of theatre was a unique period of time for iconic practitioners and actors to revitalise the love for drama after an 18 year ban enforced by the reign of the Puritans, one of these practitioners being William Wycherley. Wycherley was born in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom, just a year before the Puritans took thrown of the English Parliament in 1642. He grew up with his family as middle class citizens with an exceptional property until he was 15 where Wycherleys parents figured it

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    Salesman” by Steve R. Centola “Death of a Salesman “ by Arthur Miller is interpreted differently by many people.  In the critical review titled “Family Values in Death of a Salesman” by Steve R. Centola, he characterizes Death of the Salesman as am a modern tragedy. He draws more focus on the family core values and self-exert.  In his analysis, he states that as the humans try to be competitive, they have dehumanized the American dream and have turned it into an urban nightmare. He claims that the author

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    Ancient Greeks used drama as a way of investigating the world they lived in. There are three genres of drama: comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all, tragedy. Greek tragedy and Greek comedy formed the cornerstone of modern theatre. While comedy was mainly a way to mock men in power for their vanity and foolishness and satyr plays on the other hand were short plays performed between the acts of tragedies and made fun of the plight of the tragedy's characters, tragedy dealt with the big themes

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    Redfern Now Analysis

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    Television dramas use the way they are constructed and their production and reception contexts to affect meanings. “Stand Up” from the television series Redfern Now is an episode that features the protagonist Joel who had won an Indigenous scholarship to the prestigious Clifton Grammar. “Tara” from the television show Skippy is an episode where Sonny and Skippy befriend an Indigenous elder, who thinks that he is dying after seeing a helicopter and thinking that it is a death spirit. These two television

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    Elizabethan Era Cinema

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    During the summer of 1851, there was a count of theatres, and there were 19 theatres in London. Stage managers were introduced. Their jobs were the equivalent of modern-day directors and producers. Because of stage manager, a lot of backstage confusion was stopped and chaos was reduced. Who were the audiences? The theatres were not restricted to certain classes of society. This is because they had improved the transportation

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    Essay On Girish Karnad

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    successes - or at least, to devote themselves to that activity entirely. I can't." Today Girish Karnad considered one of the most significant Indian dramatists. He has enriched the Indian literary scene by his contribution to art, culture, theatre and drama. It is most befitting that Karnad has been conferred by the President of India, the prestigious awards, Padmasri in 1974 and Padmabhushan in 1992. Also, he received the Gubbi Veeranna Award from the Government of Karnataka in 1997. Karnad is based

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    Disobedience In Antigone

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    their time. They were some of the first to introduce comedy and drama to the stage of ancient Greece. One of these astounding playwrights was Sophocles who is well known for his play “Antigone” which was revolutionary for its tragic rather than comedic affects. They play “Antigone” has many themes, but one of the most prominent is the act of civil disobedience and following your conscious rather than the law. This is found in modern society when it comes to the recent teachers strike in West Virginia

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    For the Soviet film, see Monologue (film). For the Malayalam film, see Anantaram. For the speech of a narrator, see Voiceover. Actor Christopher Walken performing a monologue in the 1984 stage play Hurlyburly In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues

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