▲ drama-
It is the specific mode of narrative,typically fictional, represented in performance.
There is no narrator in a drama; instead, it is a group of characters deliver information about the story on stage before the audience.
It is the specific mode of narrative,typically fictional, represented in performance.
There is no narrator in a drama; instead, it is a group of characters deliver information about the story on stage before the audience.
Themes of human
rights, censorship and political
freedom pervade
his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. The story of Hamlet, as
told from the viewpoint of two courtiers echoes Beckett in
its double act repartee, existential themes and language play.
It is a post World War II designation for
particular plays of absurdist
fiction written by
a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s. Their work
focused largely on the idea of existentialism
and expressed what happens when human existence has no meaning or purpose and
therefore all communication breaks down, in fact alerting their audiences to
pursue the opposite.
▽Summary: love, dreams, the creative imagination
The main plot of Midsummer is a complex contraption that involves
two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose
romantic cross-purposes are complicated still further by their entrance into
the play's fairyland woods where the King and Queen of the Fairies (Oberon and
Titania) preside and the impish folk character of Puck or Robin Goodfellow
plies his trade.
In the
play, Shakespeare introduces Puck as the "shrewd and knavish sprite"
and "that merry wanderer of the night"; he is a jester to Oberon, the fairy
king.
***[jester- a man in the past whose job was to tell jokes and make people laugh]
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| It is the flower mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare that inspired romantic love. |
The love-in-idleness was originally a
white flower, struck by one of Cupid’s arrows [misfired arrow], which turned it purple and gave it its magic love
potion. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, William
Shakespeare uses this flower as a plot device to introduce the comical
disturbance and chaos of love, but also to highlight the irrationality of
romantic love.
He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. Ibsen's later work examined the realities that
lay behind many façades, revealing much that was disquieting to many
contemporaries. It utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions
of life and issues of morality.
▽A Doll's House: It's one of his representative works.The play is
significant for its critical
attitude toward 19th-century marriage norms. It
aroused great controversy at the time, as it concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving
her husband and children because she wants to discover herself.
It is a literary device in which one
character within a narrative narrates. A story within a story can be used in all types of narration: novels, short
stories, plays, television programs, films, poems, songs, and philosophical essays.
→William Shakespeare used this device in
many of his plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labours Lost, and Hamlet.
▲New words
1. address (v.)-
1. address (v.)-
1) to speak or write to someone [address… to
someone; someone is addressed as…]
→He addressed a few introductory remarks to the audience.
→He likes to be addressed as 'Sir'
or 'Mr Partridge'
2) to write a name or address on an envelope
or parcel [be addresses to + someone]
→So why did you open a letter that was
addressed to me?
3) to give attention to or deal with a matter or
problem
→The issue of funding has yet to be addressed.
2. In “Which
of the following do you learn about the speaker of this poem?” learn means “to get informed” instead of “to get knowledge or skill in a new subject or activity.”
3. preoccupied (adj.)- thinking or worrying about something too much
[someone be preoccupied… (with+ something)]
→She's been very preoccupied recently because her mother has been very ill.
→Why is the media so preoccupied with the love lives of politicians?
preoccupation
(n.)- an idea or subject that someone thinks
about most of the time
→My main preoccupation now is trying to
keep life normal for the sake of my two boys.
→self-preoccupation: excessive interest in oneself
4. “shouldst” is an archaic use of second-person singular simple past form of shall;
similarly, “thy” means “you” in the past.
→To His Coy Mistress: is a metaphysical poem written by
the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either
during or just before the English Interregnum.
6. allude to sb/sth (phrase verb)- to mention someone or
something without talking about them directly
→She mentioned
some trouble that she'd had at home and I guessed
she was alluding to her son.
allusion (n.)- It is a figure
of speech, in which one
refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance from an external
context. Also, it can be divided into biblical, literary, and mythological
allusion.
10. Notice the pronunciation of Aegean, [I`dʒiən].The same as Aegeus [`iːdʒiəs] or [ˈɛdʒˌjuːs].
→ Aegeus was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens. The "goat-man" who gave his name to the Aegean Sea was, next to Poseidon, the father of Theseus, the founder of Athenian institutions and one of the kings of Athens.
→ Aegeus was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens. The "goat-man" who gave his name to the Aegean Sea was, next to Poseidon, the father of Theseus, the founder of Athenian institutions and one of the kings of Athens.
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