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considered among the most distinguished British architects of the 20th century. He is credited with having contributed to London’s urban landscape. Among the works for which he is best known are the Royal National Theatre at London’s South Banks of the Thames, the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, the Royal College of Physicians in Regent 's Park and the University of East Anglia. The others of Lasdun’s buildings were a building at 32 Newton Road, Paddington, Hallfield Primary School, Usk Street

Queering in Shakespeare Royal National Theatre As You Like It 1967 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. Royal National Theatre staged a production of As You Like It (1967) directed by

plays, he became a success, helping him become the founding director of the Royal National Theatre (Biography.com Editors). Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. career started at after graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point where he faced discrimination, most notably after applying for the Army

John Caird’s vision for his production of Hamlet was to give it a “suffocatingly religious” atmosphere where “the set was part cathedral, part castle, part graveyard, part attic” (Bate 202). Together with set designer Tim Hatley, he succeeded. Amy Gamerman of the Wall Street Journal characterized the set as “dismal” and “vacant-looking.” The set was comprised of luggage, suitcases and old trunks that were stacked, torn down and restacked again in different ways to make different scenes. Presumably

Since records began, women have held the stigma for being the weaker and insignificant sex in comparison to men. Women were and are lower in society, which gives men the mind-set that women are objects rather than people. Throughout history, women are constrained to play the minor roles; supporting men and caring for children. Women are considered of no value in a male chauvinist society. Both “An Inspector Calls” and “Of Mice and Men” explore the theme of the exploitation of women. Eva Smith –

William Shakespeare expresses Shylock and Hamlet’s emotional voices explicitly throughout both plays: The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. The emotional voices in both texts were due to the tragic incidences each protagonist – Shylock and Hamlet - endured. In The Merchant of Venice the emotions seen within the text are hatred and penitence, whereas in Hamlet the audience can infer that the emotions portrayed are depression, pain and terror; thus instigating that there is a contrasting concept between

1. Compare and contrast how, and for what dramatic purpose, the writers of The History Boys and Oleanna present characters who display both vulnerability and villainy. In both Oleanna and History Boys the writers include many controversial subjects to portray the characters in the plays to be both vulnerable and villainy. In Oleanna, Mamet involves sexual harassment and power throughout the play. Although, instead of using scenarios of sexual harassment near the time of the play (Clarence Thomas

The Real Inspector Hound Contrasting settings, ideals and people dominate The Real Inspector Hound. Almost every character has an opposite, and is otherwise totally unique. Cynthia is opposite to Felicity, Simon is the contrast of Magnus, and so on. Tom Stoppard has included these contrasts for a variety of reasons and effects that combine to create the disturbing effect of the play incredibly effectively. But what individual effects do his characters create by

Merchant of Venice Introduction The three versions of the Merchant of Venice which I have watched are: 1. Channel 4 television version for their Schools Broadcasting Programmes 2. Trevor Nunn's version 3. National Theatre Company version directed by Jonathan Miller and starring Laurence Olivier as Shylock Act IV scene 1 is an intense scene in the play where we see many of the play's main themes such as justice and mercy, money and status, revenge

Michael Radford's version of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice nearly surpasses it’s’ predecessor Trevor Nunn’s in every way because it was crafted with a much higher budget, It has elements that enforce the emotional impact of the story and successfully adapts and improves the text from Shakespeare’s vision. With the higher budget Michael Radford is able to make a more convincing and higher quality film by having, a more skilled and visually appealing cast, real sets and locations, and a much