One-act plays

behaviors are all just an act and the way he plays this act is very clever and he fools everyone he plays this act against. He tricks other characters into thinking that he is crazy and he even tricks the murderer of his father into thinking that he is clueless into what had actually happened to his father. Hamlet's actions show just what an intelligent mind Hamlet has. In the play ‘Hamlet’, Hamlet's behavior is portrayed as crazy or insane but this behavior is just an act into tricking people into

One of the most common structures of great plays follow Aristotle’s definition of tragedy. In such plays, the main character must start as someone of high stature. Over the course of the play, this character struggles with his or her own tragic flaw, which eventually leads to a fall from the status the character originally held in the beginning of the play. This structure additionally leads the reader to contemplate the theme of the play, usually about human nature. The tragedy of Macbeth is no different

express Hamlet’s on-going madness. One of many forms of Hamlet’s madness lies within his deceitful actions that escalate from Claudius’s murderous attempt on Old Hamlet. As the play develops, readers may acknowledge suspicious and wariness atmospheres as Hamlet seeks to find confirmation and evidence against Claudius’s ferocious act. Hamlet’s deceitfulness is abundant and can be recognized throughout the play. His intention to justify his uncle’s murderous act involves deceitful planning and duplicitous

published in 1953, a second scene for Act II was written but Arthur Miller decided to take it from the future editions that came after that time. A reason Arthur Miller might have removed this scene from the play was that it showed the readers too much information, which would have given the readers too much about what would happen later on in the play and it might have had disinterested the readers into continuing reading. The Act II scene, which was taken off from the play, would have changed the outlook

"O for a muse of fire," The Chorus introduces the start of Henry V with imagery of flames and war. Shakespeare uses the Chorus to initiate the play and summarise each act to the audience before the next one begins. He is merely a tool to avoid the audience getting too confused. The function for the chorus is merely a practical one, by summarising the plot at every available opportunity; there is little chance for confusion, even if the audience do have to use their imagination

Othello has enduring relevance because of the themes which Shakespeare has used, the complexity of the characters and the way in which he uses language to create meaning. The play explores ideas such as jealousy, manipulation, racism and sexism, all of which people nowadays can still relate to. It is also a timeless classic because of the way in which we can reinterpret it into a modern context. Othello is a tragedy which was first performed in 1604 for an Elizabethan audience in London. It’s a

within the time capsule included the play ‘Summer of the Seventeenth Doll’, by Ray Lawler, which can be used to demonstrate aspects of the Australian identity which are unique to this country and are ultimately timeless. The play follows the lives of various Australian figures, including Northern Queensland cane cutters and Carlton barmaids, during the lay-off season as well as the many aspects of conflict that occur. The Australian identity presented by this play is reinforced through a second article

when the play was first put on. D.H. Lawrence famously said, “ Never trust the teller, trust the tale” and with that in mind, I wish to explore the reasons why audiences and readers may perceive translations as a political play. The action of the play over three acts shows the profoundly disturbing influence of the English domination over the Baile Beag

One of William Shakespeare’s famous and outstanding plays is ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The play tells a story of two ‘star-crossed lovers’, Romeo and Juliet, who belong to two house rivals, which are Montague and Capulet respectively, that meet, get married, and die out of love. In the play, Shakespeare expresses heavily on the conflict, both externally and internally. The major conflict of the play is the feud between Capulet and Montague. However there are other forms of conflict including Juliet’s emotional

this play structure became known as Freytag’s Pyramid or the dramatic structure of a five act play, where all parts of the five act format allows for a smooth transition from the exposition to resolution. Although Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a four act play, it can be analyzed through the combination of transitions in a five act format into one act. Act one of The Crucible displayed the exposition as well as the beginning of the rising action of the story. The exposition of the play revealed