Essays on Plays

Though often unintentional, individuals can be responsible for their own devastating turn of events. This is best exemplified in Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller and The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence. Death of a Salesman follows the life of Willy Loman, a failing…

This semester we studied a lot of different types of writing. From studying genres, to studying poetry and plays, and even types of writers, like women authors. My personal favorite from the third phase of the class was the Plays and Dramas section. Granted, we…

My latest reality TV obsession is the adaptly named Love Island, a show that is built on the premise that you must couple up if you want to win the ‘Competition’. Contestants are chosen based on physical attributes, probably a skillfully questioned psych assessment to…

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the predominant characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, are defined unceasingly by questioning their identity, environment, and what their believed purpose is. This astounding piece of literary work written by Tom Stoppard shows the trek that the two characters (originally from…

The play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was written by Tom Stoppard in 1967, during a time when existentialism popular amongst many of the philosophically inclined. Existentialism mainly focuses on the need for humans to make rational choices that determine their own meaning in life,…

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of the most frequently performed plays of modern theater as it is the ingenious tale of supple Rosencrantz and witty Guildenstern, childhood friends of young Hamlet. In Tom Stoppard’s expansion on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead…

There are many different attitudes to the purposes of education presented in The History Boys and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. We see many examples of Hector’s traditional views on education compared to Irwin’s pragmatic views about taking an unusual position in debates in…

Both Duffy and Bennett present deliberately provocative attitudes towards the matriarchy and patriarchy through their respective uses of storytelling. In The World’s Wife Duffy uses a variety of poetic forms to displace and reinsert female mythological and literary figures into roles of dramatic cultural centrality,…

 In the Taming of the Shrew, men from far-off lands arrive in the town she lives in and searches for her hand in marriage. The catch is that she is not allowed to marry until her older sister (named the Shrew) is married off. Some…

The psychology of love describes the process of lovers displaying their emotions through sympathy and compassion for one another. During the 16th century, this concept of love contrast in the social structure of that time, where the notion of relationships and marriages are often in…