Joint Stock Theatre Company Essays

  • Biography of Caryl Churchill

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    Brechtian style of theatre that has been commented on time and time again, but also musicals of a sort. Churchill was born in London on September 3, 1938. She lived in England until the age of ten when her family moved to Canada. There she attended Trafalgar School in Montreal until 1955. At this time she moved back to England to attend Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. This is the key place that her career began. While studying English at Oxford she took an interest in theatre. She wrote her

  • The Virginia Company

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    Companies, in the early centuries, merely existed in the form of organizations. However, the traditional form of company was reshaped during the fifteenth century, by means of a special document referred to as charters. This writing will initially provide a concise depiction on how charters provided different companies with fairly convenient privileges that led to an innovation for business development. This essay will also shed light on the first company that settled in the New World with charter

  • Chesapeake Bay Labors in Colonial America

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    colony by themselves led to the demise of the colony as a whole especially regarding the planting of agricultural goods for food. With an eye toward finding precious metals, the Virginia Company, a joint stock company sent jewelers, goldsmiths, aristocrats, and the like, but not a single farmer. As the company had expected, the settlers spent their time searching for gold, and hoped to obtain all of their food by trading with the nearby Powhatan tribes. This made their settlement neither profitable

  • The Virginia Company's Significance to the Permanent Settlement in America

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    The chartered companies in England, whose major precursor being medieval merchant-guilds, were a form of organization that had lawful trading monopolies over certain goods in specific geographical areas as stipulated in the state-granted royal charters . As many companies became engaged in overseas trading in the sixteenth century, an innovative form of chartered company, namely, the joint-stock company came into being as an evolution from the “regulated” chartered companies. First, their structure

  • Cloud 9

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    discussing gender and sexuality, but it also considers colonialism and racism The former issues are secondary, and are seen more in act one of this two act play. The issues of sexism are more dominant because Cloud 9 was an assignment from the Joint Stock Theatre Group as a piece on sexual politics (Cousin 38). Cloud 9 is an unconventional play of two acts; the first act is set in Victorian Africa, the height of colonial settlement, while act two is set near a century later in what would have been modern

  • William Shakespeare Research Paper

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    Shakespeare’s creativity with words has affected everything from love, poetry, history, fantasy, tragedy, comedy, and magic. He wrote his plays with the common man in mind. This is because Shakespeare wished for the general public to see and enjoy theatre

  • Disney Fox Merger Essay

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    December, 2017, the Walt Disney Co. in a $52.4 billion, all-stock deal, made a bid to acquire 21st Century Fox and its entertainment and sports assets to augment their already asset-rich portfolio1, causing fans of superhero blockbusters worldwide to cheer. However, the deal has several other ramifications for the entertainment industry, some of which the Author attempts to discuss here. Disney’s motivations are clear enough; the media company is morphing into a goliath, and today, there exists no David

  • Macbeth Political Commentary

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    hits close to home. It's a performance that comes straight to you as though the actors were your house guests. Also, it had a direct tie to a significant problem at the time. Bu first, let me offer a little background information. RIFT is a theater company comprised of two individuals. Felix Mortimer and Joshua Nawras were responsible for this version of Macbeth. And their inspiration stems from something powerful. Unlike the other directors, their work didn't emerge because they wanted to do Shakespeare

  • The Peace Of Augsburg, By Charles V, Emperor Of The Holy Roman Empire

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    As Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, lifted his quill and signed the Peace of Augsburg, he hoped to solve the great religious tensions of his region; little did he know it was this very document that would lead to one of the longest and most devastating wars in European history. The Peace of Augsburg (1555) may have solved the immediate conflicts, but it did little to resolve the underlying problem. Within 60 years, a new religious war would break out, forever changing religion 's role

  • Booking. Com: Case Study Of Michael Adler's Online Travel Agency

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    consultancy firm in the year 1988. Till the year 1998 he invested in around 50 tech companies to earn

  • A Career in Acting

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    Because of erratic employment, earnings for actresses are relatively low. Although most people associate actresses, directors, and producers with the screens of Hollywood or stages of Broadway, these workers are more likely to be found in a local theatre, television studio, circus, or comedy club. Actresses, directors, and producers include workers as diverse as narrators; clowns; comedians; acrobats; jugglers; stunt, rodeo, and aquatic performers; casting, stage, news, sports, and public service

  • A Feminist Analysis of Cloud Nine

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    Feminist Analysis of Cloud Nine In 1979, Caryl Churchill wrote a feminist play entitled Cloud Nine. It was the result of a workshop for the Joint Stock Theatre Group and was intended to be about sexual politics. Within the writing she included a myriad of different themes ranging from homosexuality and homophobia to female objectification and oppression. “Churchill clearly intended to raise questions of gender, sexual orientation, and race as ideological issues; she accomplished this largely by cross-dressing

  • William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew as a Comedy

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    William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew as a Comedy 'The Taming of the Shrew', written by William Shakespeare between 1589 and 1594, is a romantic comedy set in the Italian city of Padua. Since the play was written, the audience's idea of comedy has changed quite dramatically. In the fifteen hundreds, an audience would have enjoyed obvious, visual aspects of comedy such as we would see in a modern-day pantomime, whereas an audience watching the play today would also enjoy less obvious