Theatre

Come, Sir Boy: Subverting Masculinity Through Cross-Gender Performance

Rachel Chung - I was the wounded soldier in the opening scene of Macbeth, lying spread-eagled on the stage, flaunting my unsightly gashes. I closed my legs self-consciously. Even portraying a hyper-masculine character, I found myself subject to the parameters of feminine performance... Keep Reading »

Intersections of Gender, Race and Nation in Cloud Nine and M. Butterfly

Miriam Cummins - This article contributes to the debate as to whether Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang are ultimately essentialist or anti-essentialist, accentuating or disavowing difference. It argues that both plays are successfully anti-essentialist... Keep Reading »

Nora as a Doll in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

Michael C. Wiseman - In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora Helmer spends most of her on-stage time as a doll: a vapid, passive character with little personality of her own. Her whole life is a construct of societal norms and the expectations of others. Until she comes to the realization... Keep Reading »
 
 

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Film Studies
2020, Vol. 12 No. 10
Stage as Moment, Cinema as Memory: The Diverging Aesthetics of Two Mediums
By Abigail Tulenko
This paper argues that film is a medium defined by its relationship to memory. Building upon aesthetician György Lukács's temporal theory of cinema, I contrast film's inherent relationship to memory with the “eternal present&rdquo... Read Article »
Aesthetics Theater Film Studies Cinema Shakespeare Memory
English Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 01
Class, Gender and the Anxieties of Meritocracy in Jacobean England
By Joshua B. Black
The staged plays of the early Jacobean period are valuable textual products for the literary critic, the cultural researcher and the historian alike. These plays are significant containers of knowledge about the mutually reinforcing social and political... Read Article »
Social Class Gender Roles Political Culture John Webster Jacobean Literature
Gender Roles
2017, Vol. 9 No. 11
Come, Sir Boy: Subverting Masculinity Through Cross-Gender Performance
By Rachel Chung
I was the wounded soldier in the opening scene of Macbeth, lying spread-eagled on the stage, flaunting my unsightly gashes. I closed my legs self-consciously. Even portraying a hyper-masculine character, I found myself subject to the parameters... Read Article »
Gender Roles Feminism Theatre Shakespeare Cross-Gender Casting
Shakespeare
2017, Vol. 9 No. 02
A 16th Century Ovid: The Influence of Classical Mythology on the Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays
By Emily Gray
Commonly believed to be the single greatest writer and poet of the English language, as well as one of the most distinguished and esteemed dramatists in the entire world, William Shakespeare is credited with authoring approximately 38 works of theatre... Read Article »
Shakespeare Greek Mythology Ovid Mythology Classics A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare
2017, Vol. 9 No. 01
The Role of Deception in Love as Portrayed in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night
By Emily Gray
Although he is arguably best known for his tragedies exploring emotions associated with familial obligations, the need for revenge, and overwhelming ambition, English poet and playwright William Shakespeare penned numerous lines of verse and multiple... Read Article »
Shakespeare Love Deception Elizabethan Plays A Midsummer Night's Dream Twelfth Night
Shakespeare
2016, Vol. 8 No. 11
The Role of Minor and Ephemeral Characters in Shakespeare's Henry V
By Muhammad Suffian
Never has a work of Shakespeare courted such controversy amongst critics than The Life of King Henry V. ‘By far the most controversial of the histories’, writes Berry, 'Henry V remains at the centre of a long-standing critical debate... Read Article »
Shakespeare Henry V Character Development Plays Myth
Critical Theory
2016, Vol. 8 No. 10
Intersections of Gender, Race and Nation in Cloud Nine and M. Butterfly
By Miriam Cummins
This article contributes to the debate as to whether Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang are ultimately essentialist or anti-essentialist, accentuating or disavowing difference. It argues that both plays are successfully... Read Article »
Gender Race Nationalism Theatre Orientalism Cultural Identity Feminism Edward Said
Irish Literature
2015, Vol. 7 No. 10
Edward Martyn's "Debt" to Henrik Ibsen and his Work An Enemy of the People
By Ana-Maria Izquierdo
Was he right to make such a claim? I do not believe he was – at least not entirely. It is true that the influence of The Lady from the Sea (1888) by Norwegian master Ibsen is more than evident in Edward Martyn's two-act play An Enchanted Sea... Read Article »
Martyn Ibsen Irish Drama Irish Literature Norwegian Literature Playwrights
Virginia Woolf
2015, Vol. 7 No. 07
The Process of Unity in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts
By Hayley E. Tartell
In Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts, Woolf raises the theme of a progression toward social unification. Through her analysis of repetition, milieu, and the audience’s shared state of distractedness, Woolf enriches her text by emphasizing... Read Article »
Virginia Woolf Theatre Kant Audience Political Unity
Family
2012, Vol. 4 No. 06
Food, Love and Death in Norman's 'night Mother
By Megan P. Kaplon
Marsha Norman’s 1983 play‘night Mother is full of food imagery and references. From the opening stage directions to Jessie’s constant kitchen chores, food is intertwined in every moment of the play. Norman’s food references... Read Article »
Food Gender Family Suicide Marsha Norman
August Wilson
2011, Vol. 3 No. 01
The "N-Word:" The Use and Development of the Term "Nigger" in African-American Culture, as Depicted in the Plays of August Wilson
By Stephanie C. Grogan
August Wilson represents the experiences of African-Americans in each decade of the 20th century in his Pittsburgh Cycle, a collection of ten plays. Throughout this canon, language is used not just as an important form of communication amongst... Read Article »
August Wilson African-American Experience Slang Pittsburgh Cycle African American Culture N Word
Freud
2010, Vol. 2 No. 11
Freudian Theories Present in Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera"
By Jeremy S. Page
The Phantom of the Opera was originally penned as a French serial by Gaston Leroux in 1909. It tells the story of a young man, Erik, who is born with a terrible deformity in his face. Erik is outcast by his parents, and eventually comes... Read Article »
Gaston Leroux Freud Oedipus Theater
Henrik Ibsen
2010, Vol. 2 No. 03
Nora as a Doll in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
By Michael C. Wiseman
In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora Helmer spends most of her on-stage time as a doll: a vapid, passive character with little personality of her own. Her whole life is a construct of societal norms and the expectations of others. Until she comes... Read Article »
Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House Norwegian Literature Theatre Playwrights
Shakespeare
2009, Vol. 1 No. 12
Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Plays of Shakespeare
By Katherine Blakeney
The number of ancient sources available to the readers and playwrights of Elizabethan times was truly immeasurable. These sources could be reached both as original texts in Greek and Latin, and in French and English translations. Popular indirect... Read Article »
Shakespeare Ovid Greek Mythology Classics Elizabethan Plays Homer
Peter Brook
2009, Vol. 1 No. 12
The Development of Theatre: Peter Brook and the Human Connection
By Sawyer A. Theriault
An actor is on stage. He begins to speak, and as he does so the hearts of the audience wrench. The actor is pronouncing his love to a woman through song; or he is swearing revenge against the man who killed his father; or he is staring at the back... Read Article »
Peter Brook Brook Theatre Theater Antonin Artaud Theater Of Cruelty The Empty Space Empty Space Human Connection Aronson
 
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