One-act plays

acting. Especially his tragedy Hamlet fascinated the audience over centuries and still does today. One of the reasons for the huge success of this play are the metatheatrical aspects that Shakespeare uses within the story. To break the illusion of reality that a stage play wants to create, Shakespeare makes the theatre itself to an important theme, operates with the concept of a play within a play, and connects so the two important level of communication. The first thing a reader of Hamlet or audience

(1996) interpret and portray the play by Shakespeare in different ways. The two film versions of Mel Gibson and Kenneth Branagh of Act IV of Hamlet have many differences and similarities. Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet is seen covering most of the original text of Shakespeare’s play of Hamlet unlike the Mel Gibson version which omits many scenes and dialogues. The film version of Hamlet featuring Kenneth Branagh is a more successful production of Shakespeare’s play according to the setting and time

Title The title of the book seems to emphasize the word “Earnest” by describing it as something important. After reading through the play by Oscar Wilde, the title seems to perfectly match with the content and plot described in the book, since it shows the irony behind the title of the importance of being earnest, and the made-up character “Ernest” himself. Jack’s double, Ernest, is a made up character who Jack can transform into in order to be another version of himself. When Jack is residing in

bringer of fortune and influence. In his play A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen portrays, through the character of Nora, the power women are gaining in patriarchal societies. Nora, who symbolizes all women, exercises her power throughout the entire play. She cleverly manipulates the men around her while, to them, she seems to be staying in her subordinate role. In all three acts of the play Nora controls many situations and yields the most power.  Act I, along with the introduction of Ibsen's

has different thoughts than his wife. In Nora's existentialist transformation, the interaction of consciousness and subconscious cannot be ignored. The play has excellent examples of symbolism and metaphor. There are easy to realize and understand the metaphors, but symbols have deep meanings, which we must feel the Author’s emotion in the three acts while reading a

person or thing named Godot. The play entitles two contrasting pairs of characters, Vladimir and Estragon, Pozzo and Lucky. These sets of characters differ greatly and they create effect of humanity. The main difference between the pair’s relationships would be their dependency on each other, their level of compatibility, and their development throughout the play. Furthermore, both

too late that they wasted time doing one thing while they were losing another. The play Our Town is told in three acts, explaining the years going by, and how the advance of time effects many characters. I agree that no one truly appreciates something until it is already gone, similar to how Wilder ponders about the advancement of time. Thornton Wilder expresses many ways of time taking its toll on many of the characters in the play. Wilder shows in his play that time moves with or without you and

Our Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder set in a small town known as Grover’s Corners. Wilder conjured the Stage Manager to be a representation to the theme of the play. The theme of universality placing Grover’s Corners in view with the rest of the world. Wilder makes a point to the audience that people have a big impact and influence over the next person, whether they were important or insignificant to that individual’s life. Therefore, the Stage Manager emphasizes on this very viewpoint

Hamlet, both the character and the play, has puzzled many critics of Shakespeare's works because there is no definite explanation for Hamlet’s feigned madness or indecisive nature. In the eyes of many critics, the character ’s two main qualities are irrational and detrimental to the play’s plot. There are multiple views that try to reconcile the reason behind Shakespeare's motives, either through a study of the history of the play or how the creation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet came to be. Each theory

Aristotle’s poetics have long been considered the go-to guide for determining well written “poetry”, most notably in comedies and tragedies. Hamlet, like many of Shakespeare’s plays, is considered to be a tragedy although there is room to debate whether or not its protagonist is the quintessential tragic hero or a deeply flawed anti-tragic hero. Evaluating Hamlet using Aristotle’s theories, especially considering the criticism Shakespeare received for seemingly defying these ideals, may be the most