In each and every culture theater exists. However, they are not always portrayed in the same way and could take up many different forms. What differ them from others is influenced by the convention of what governs them. What happen on stage depends on the conventions of the theater. Convention is define as “Rules governing a given style of theater, such as fourth-wall verisimilitude or bare stage. These rule should not be violated, but often are, as when actors “break” the fourth wall by delivering a line directly toward the audience” (Altshuler and Janaro 208). The condition governing the staging and performance are known as theatrical conventions, in which what the audiences agree to accept as what is real (Altshuler and Janaro 173). In comparing an Elizabethan and a modern theater to each other there are many differences and similarities between the two. By comparing William Shakespeare “Hamlet” to Lorraine Hansberry “A Raisin in the Sun”, we can see that there is a major difference between the two …show more content…
masterpieces with some similarities. In the Elizabethan theater, one of its representatives of playwright is William Shakespeare and for a modern theater, it is Lorraine Hansberry. The difference between Elizabethan and modern theater is the setting in which the audience watches the play. It has been stated that in the in the Elizabethan theater, the audiences would have been sitting or standing close to the stage (Altshuler and Janaro 174). One of the major theaters during the Elizabethan time was the Globe, where most of Shakespeare’s plays were performed. The Globe consists of different levels of seating and roofing. The upper and lower class patrons were under a roof, while the lower class patrons stood under the open sky (Altshuler and Janaro 175). However, in modern theater there is roofing for everyone and a comfort seating to watch the play. In addition, both theaters are similar due to the setting, in which they are available almost anytime of the year and the purpose or goal in the theater was to entertain the audience. Furthermore, the difference between the Elizabethan and modern day masterpieces are the way that they are written.
Shakespeare has written the play “Hamlet” with a soliloquy; in “A Raisin In the Sun” play there was not any soliloquy (Shmoop, “Literary”) . “A Raisin In the Sun” was written more and focused more on real world situations making the play more realistic. The play “Hamlet” was somewhat realistic, but with the concept of ghost it does not fit into the category of realistic. However, they were similar in a way that they were not under no obligations to deal with universal themes. Such as writing the play in one day like how it was before in the past. In the changing roles of hero from the Elizabethan to modern tragedy, the playwrights seek the modern day tragic hero with an ordinary occupation (Altshuler and Janaro 185). However, the hero during the Elizabethan hero focuses on the fatal mistakes made by the protagonist (Altshuler and Janaro
185).
When people think of their dreams being deferred, do you think of a raisin in the sun? A Raisin in the Sun is a movie based off a play written by Lorraine Hansberry. Usually people think of movies as a better option because it is either, better, higher quality, better than the play/book, a preferable way, do not have to read a book, and it is pretty much the same thing. The movie and play have a lot of similarities and differences. Both have to do with the same plot, but there are many differences between the movie and play as well as similarities between the movie and play.
In both plays such as Hamlet and A Raisin in the Sun all character in the story face internal conflicts that lead to the overall meaning of the play. From Hamlet King Claudius faces internal conflict that adds to the dramatic events of tragedy in Denmark, In A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha faces internal conflicts that enlarges African American women struggles in the 1950s, both character internal conflicts illuminates the meaning of the plays.
William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, has been widely known for its influential tragedies in literature. The development of the plot began in Act I, Scene v, when the Ghost of Old Hamlet, revealed to Hamlet that he was murdered by his brother and demands Hamlet to avenge his death. The context of the Ghost's speech and presence addresses the importance of practice values in the Elizabethan era. In comparison to Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film adaptation of Hamlet, he has also successively produced an unabridged modernized version of the play. The movie captivated the same social, economic, and cultural values that Shakespeare was attempting to use to connect to the Elizabethan audience.
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Although many different positions could be taken on writing an essay for this Shakespearian play, the author took it upon himself to write about Hamlet’s grief. His grief is obvious from the beginning of the play and he continues to grieve althroughout the play. Within his twenty-one-page essay, I chose this line to represent that I agree with his outlook on the play. “…his focus is on his grief and the profound impact in which the ghost has upon it. (Hamlet pg.18 paragraph 3)
Shakespeare’s Hamlet revolves around the title character’s undeniable obligation to immediately avenge his father’s death by killing Claudius. Yet much time elapses before Hamlet finally does slay his evil uncle, leading to a fundamental question: what causes the hero to delay before eventually managing to salvage some retribution? The answer is that Hamlet’s reoccuring state of impractical contemplation renders him incapable of any decisive action that could have brought quick revenge.
The play within a play has been used for a long time in stories ; scholars have traced it’s use back to the Arabic, Persian and Indian storytelling traditions (Bonnie Irwin, 1995). It can also be identified in Homer’s Odyssey but the first time it was probably used for drama, was in Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy. By reusing this emerging literary organ, Shakespeare is sure of his success with the presentation of his work and demonstrates to what degree drama is powerful so as to make ones self see the truth in ones acts. It is with it that Hamlet manages to surface Claudius’ guilt and to be sure that the ghost’s truthfulness. Additionally, he uses all the conventions and themes of a revenge tragedy that where extremely popular in the Elizabethan and Jacobean era and present in The Spanish Tragedy. But Shakespeare moves well beyond the usual revenge tragedy form in this play. Hamlet became a play were the themes are complicates and the psychology of its models is deepened. This is done by Hamlet’s complex characterization were he is in conflict between the Roman values of blood-right and martial valor, and Christian values of humility a...
William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, is a ghost story, a detective story and a revenge story all within one plot. Throughout the play, qualities of all three types of stories are displayed. The ghost story consists of Hamlet Senior and the circumstances surrounding his untimely demise at the hands of the present King, Claudius. He is being tortured in hell until his death is properly avenged. The detective aspect of Hamlet is brought about by Hamlet trying to figure out whether or not his fathers ghost was real and also to what, if any extent, his mother the "virtuous" Queen Gertrude was involved with the murder of his Father. Both Hamlet and Laertes, bring yet another aspect to this most versatile play, by seeking revenge for their fathers death, each in their own way. By viewing the play as either one or all of these different aspects we learn to have different perspectives on the play.
In this paper, I will be focusing briefly on my knowledge and understanding of the concept of Applied theatre and one of its theatre form, which is Theatre in Education. The term Applied Theatre is a broad range of dramatic activity carried out by a crowd of diverse bodies and groups.
Hamlet is the best known tragedy in literature today. Here, Shakespeare exposes Hamlet’s flaws as a heroic character. The tragedy in this play is the result of the main character’s unrealistic ideals and his inability to overcome his weakness of indecisiveness. This fatal attribute led to the death of several people which included his mother and the King of Denmark. Although he is described as being a brave and intelligent person, his tendency to procrastinate prevented him from acting on his father’s murder, his mother’s marriage, and his uncle’s ascension to the throne.
Theatre will always survive in our changing society. It provides us with a mirror of the society within which we live, and where conflicts we experience are acted out on stage before us. It provides us with characters with which we identify with. The audience observes the emotions and actions as they happen and share the experience with the characters in real time.
Greek and Elizabethan theatre, while similar in some respects, had a few large differences. The Greeks believed in a certain unity of theme, which was prevalent throughout the production. Greek plays were often drawn from myth or of historical significance, so it seems that only ki...
Theatre as we know it now was born more than two thousand years ago and has gone through many streams until it reached the current modernity. Among these streams is the avant-garde theatre. This theatre achieved a break in the traditional theatre and became the forefront of a new experimental theatre. Therefore it is necessary to ask how this theatre started, what impact it had on society and if this type of theatre is still common in our modern era.
Hamlet, a seventh century story put to life through the amazing writing of Shakespeare, is a play that shows how meticulous and well thought out plans will bring about the desired result. The plays main character, Hamlet, is a Renaissance man that struggles with the corrupt world around him. He must deal with such issues like "blood for blood revenge" when his own uncle kills his father and takes his place as king. A ghost king appears to Hamlet and catalyzes the events that follow in the play. Hamlet must devise a plan to take revenge for his father and bring to justice all the people who have marred the situation.