A short ppt on the key elements of Brechtian theatre which I created for a Microteach. Let me know what you think. Feel free to use it but credit me! Thanks guys.
A short ppt on the key elements of Brechtian theatre which I created for a Microteach. Let me know what you think. Feel free to use it but credit me! Thanks guys.
Edmund spenser was an English poet best known for the faerie Queene an epic poem. He is recognised as one of the premier craftmen of nascent modern english verse and is often considered one of the greatest poet in the English language
The full name of James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) is James Augustine Aloysius Joyce.
He is an early 20th century Irish novelist and poet.
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Edmund spenser was an English poet best known for the faerie Queene an epic poem. He is recognised as one of the premier craftmen of nascent modern english verse and is often considered one of the greatest poet in the English language
The full name of James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) is James Augustine Aloysius Joyce.
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Joyce is one of the pioneers of ‘stream of consciousness’ technique in novel and a new type of poetry called ‘Prose Poem’.
He is one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century also.
He used the style of ‘the examination of big events through small happenings in everyday lives’.
In the history of English literature, William Shakespeare is remarked as the giant of the Renaissance and history of the world dramas. The greatest dramatist Shakespeare was really better at portraying the female characters than the other dramatists in that period. When creating Hamlet, Shakespeare indeed tried his best to reflect the life truly, but the period when he lived in and the personal sexual identity creates under the influence of that period decided his view of male power. It is just the times in which females were realized narrowly and the fact that Shakespeare was a masculine gender that the female images in Hamlet suffered a lot, and they have been represented as one kind of slaves in the history since they did not have any choice to do for their own shake. In the play Hamlet Gertrude and Ophelia are the two significant women characters in which the attitude of the dramatist explores. The central female character Gertrude married Claudius (murderer) second time after only two months later of king‟s death, she cannot win the heart of his first husband King Hamlet as well as the heart of second husband Claudius, even she is hated by her own son prince Hamlet. The study is a comprehensive analysis on the tragedy of Shakespeare‟s Hamlet focusing on deconstructive Feminism. The main hypothesis of the study is that women in Hamlet are represented as less important and negative labels and it has reinforced and toughened the patriarchy and patriarchal principles
In my 3rd year in college, I was assigned to discuss in the class one of William Shakespeare's plays and I chose Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. It was in our English&American Literature class with Mr. D.A. Aragon. :)
The 1st part of the presentation is, of course, a short introduction of the playwright. (this is a super-duper late upload. haha)
William Shakespeare is cllaed the Bard of Avan.
Shakespeare's influence is summarized nicely by Thomas Carlyle.
This King Shakespeare does he not shine, in crowned sovereignty, over us all, as the noblest, gentlest, yet strongest of rallying-signs; indestructible; really more valuable in that point of view than any other means or appliance whatsoever? We can fancy him as radiant aloft over all Nations of Englishmen, thousand years hence. From Paramatta, from New York, wheresoever, under what sort of Parish-Constable soever, English men and women are, they will say to one another, 'Yes, this Shakespeare is ours; we produced him, we speak and think by him; we are of one blood and kind with him. (Thomas Carlyle, The Hero as Poet, 1841).
CHARACTERISTICS OF SHAKESPEARE TRAGEDIES LailaAfridi1
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2. THE FIRST FOLIO
TheFirstFoliois Shakespeare’sfirsteditionof all his
plays which came out in 1623. It contains 38 playsand the
title on the frontispiece indicates that Shakespeare’s plays
are given according to genre:
1. comedies
2. Historicalplays
3. tragedies
3. THE DRAMA WORKS
During his career as a dramatist, Shakespeare wrote 38 playsin which he experimented all
the kinds of drama popular at his time:
TRAGEDY
HISTORYPLAY
COMEDY(also its variant form called
‘ROMANCE’)
Therefore, Shakespeare’s career can be divided into
4 phases:
1. The yearsof apprenticeship
2. The historyplays and the lovecomedies
3. The great tragediesand the darkcomedies
4. The romances
4. THE YEARS OF APPRENTICESHIP
In his first phase of apprenticeship, by the mid 1590s, Shakespeare experimented:
1. History plays or chronicleplays,
which talk about eventsof English
history(like Henry VI, Richard III)
2. The Plautine comedy,whose
typical example is The Comedy of
Errors, where we find
misanderstandings,mistaken
identities,people lost and then
found, etc...
3. The tragedyof horror, like Titus
Andronicus, which is full of
murdersand physical violence
4. The character play, such as The
Taming of the Shrew, in which
characters are fixed types behaving
according to predetermined ideas of
humannature
5. The refined love comedy, like
The Two Gentlemen of Verona or
Love’s Labour’s Lost, which
presents a highlyrefineduse of
the love convetnions of that time.
5. THE HISTORY PLAYS AND THE LOVE
COMEDIES
During the second phase of his career, Shakespeare became the most important
playwright and wrote:
HISTORY PLAYS LOVE COMEDIES
- joined together a recent and crucialperiod of English
history(like in Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V)
which espress the struggle for power, love and property and
represent the history of a whole nation.
In these history plays, Shakespeare also
- and created one of his immortal figure: Falstaff (in Henry
IV)
They are different from the comedies of the early
years because they have 3 important innovations:
1. The author plays with language in a less
obvious way
2. The characters are more complex
3. Love conventions are exploited to explore the
psychologyof love, even its delusions
6. THE GREAT TRAGEDIES AND THE DARK
COMEDIES
At the beginning of the XVII century, Shakespeare wrote:
TRAGEDIES COMEDIES
which show Shakespeare’sgrowingdisillusion
They have complex characters, who often must face difficult
choices(for ex., between love and affection or reason and pride),
like Brutis (in Julius Ceaser), Othello, King Lear or Mark Antony.
These characters occupy the highestpositionsin society (kings,
queens, princes, commanders), but they’re characterized by
contradictions and frailties.
Brutus
Othello KingLear
Which are considered dark comedies, because:
- Love isn’t a sweet and careless emotion anymore, but
it’s a complex and a disillusioned experience
- They show ambiguitiesof feelings as love and
friendship and they are in belance betweencomedyand
tragedy
So they can be considered comedies only thanks to
their happyendings.
7. THE ROMANCES
In his last phase, Shakespearemainly wrote romanticcomedies, in which he
reconciled with human nature
THE WINTER’S TALE THE TEMPEST PERICLES
Even if the protagonist is guilty,
the play hasn’t got a tragic
conclusion
But, at end of the play, orderand
harmony are restored
The contrast betweenthe old and
the young and theircoming
together is shown thanks to love
and understandings of the younger
generations.
8. THEME: WOMEN AND LOVE
At the centre of Shakespeare’s tragedies there’s
the strong desire for love and power, acted by
Shakespeare’s heiroines.
Throughout the play, Juliet’s love for Romeo is driven to defy her entire social world:
herparentsandrelatives, likes Juliet’s father, who, on
hearing that she refuses to marry Count Paris, insults her
ruthlessness; or like her mther, who doesn’t help Juliet.
hersocietyabdallrules, which denies
her right to love
But, in spite of these obstacles, Juliet has the courage to risk everything for her love, which causes her death
9. THEME: WOMEN AND POWER
Shakespeare’s heroines don’t have the typical female behaviour
and poses, but theycan be as ambitious and cruelas men
In Macbeth, LadyMacbethbecomes a co-protagonist and especially thedrivingforceof theplay.
The three witches’ prophecy Macbeth’s ambition are the instruments of her desire
forpower
She also says that if she wasn’t a woman, she could commit the king’s murder herself and Macbeth observes
astonished at how much more of a man she is compared with himself
10. THEME: FATHERS VS DAUGHTERS
In Shakespeare’s plays, we can also see the contrast
between fathers and daughter
Indeed, all Shakespeare’s daughter are subject to the will of their fathers or also their husbands
IN THE COMEDIES IN THE TRAGEDIES
The young girls, like Shylock’s daughter
Jessica in The Merchant of Venice,
against to their father’s will, often flee.
Daughters’ reactions can be different:
In Romeo and Juliet, the young girl suffers her father’s
insults and, decides to die.insteadof escaping and not to
marry Count Paris – her father’s choice as a husband-
In King Lear, instead, Cordelia, who sincerely loves her
father, refuses his role as an oppressive father and openly
defies him, rejecting to recognize her love for him at his
command.
11. THEME: RHETORIC AND POWER
Shakespeare’s heroes use rhetoric,both
in their actions and speeches, becuase is the
key...
to love,riches,power,happinessand goodness!
In all of Shakespeare’s plays, in fact, we find that rhetoric is:
- helpful in love and politics, like in Richard III, where the protagonist uses
rhetoric to take the throne of England, or in Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo
rhetorically wooes her.
- A great instrumentfor evil , like in Macbeth, where Lady Macbeth pushes her
husband to commit the king’s murder, becuase she wants to become queen, or in
Othello, where Iago says Othello that Desdemona is unfaithful to him
- A way to underlinecharacter’spsychology,weakpointsand obsessions, is
expressedin particular in monologues, like Hamlet’s soliloquy, where he
contemplates his fear of acting.
12. THEME: THE WORLD AS A STAGE
In his comedies and tragedies , Shakespeare offers brilliant plots and characters and also a profound
reflection on a modern and universal theme:
<<Lifeisaplayandtheworldisitsstage>>
This metaphor was common in Reinaissance culture and it became a part of Shakespeare’s plot and
characters’ psychology.
In The Merchant of Venice, for istance, Antonio
describes the world as << a stagewhereeveryman
mustplaya part>>
In Macbeth’s speech after his wife’s death, the metaphor,
instead, becomes the instrument of Macbeth’s absolute
pessimism: << a poor playerwhois givennomorethanan hour
uponthestageand thenis heardnomore>>.
The metaphor was also reinforced by:
- The name of Shakespeare’s theatre: The Globe
- And by the signposted outside it, where Herculesis
represented carrying the world on his shoulders and saying:
<< Theactorcarriesthewholeworld>>
13. SHAKESPEARE’S UNIVERSALITY
Shakespeare’s fame consist in his universality. In fact, he united the Renaissance with the classical timesand
the modernworld.
Ih his Roman plays (Julius Ceaser, Antony and Cleopatra), he looks into the
classical pastwith a modern sensibility. He also rebuilds the last two centuries of
English history, where he describes politics as a struggle for power , that involves
both winners and losers.
Shakespeare analyzes the meaninglessness of life and the
humannature, represented in King Lear and Macbeth’s
lives as a tragicmistake and horrors.
Here, Shakespeare still uses a traditional dramatic structure: the end as the restoration of order, that implies the deathof
good and badcharacters.
Therefore, Hamlet and Othello are considered the first modern tragicheroes, because they’re fullof indecisions like
modern man.
His comedies, finally, are more than a comical and
ertertaining. In fact, Shakespeare deals with themes
such as love, friendship and human relashionships,
with the awareness of wrong and right.
In his comedies, laughter is also mixed with
sorrow: for ex., in The Merchant of Venice,
Shylock, the Jew, is discriminated; or in The
Tempest we can find the metaphorof
colonialism