Geography and Plays - Gertrude Stein

Advantages: Lots to write about
Disadvantages: Very long

...Hi everyone, its good to be back!! Been away a while studying, but im back for a bit to get your valued opinion on my last peice of English Literature corsework, i struggle with Shakespeare and I would greatly appretiate your honest opinion, which i know you will do otherwise you would not be a ciaoer!!!! thanks. #################################### How would a modern day audience respond to the presentation of women in Hamlet? William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1603. Hamlet is a play of its time in the presentation of female characters. There are only two women in Hamlet. Gertrude, Hamlets mother, and Ophelia, Hamlets lover, the daughter of Polonius. Hamlet was written in the Elizabethan period, in this time many women were confined to the domestic sphere, they were often unhappy, oppressed, and commonly abused by tyrannical... Read review

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Advantages: Witty, sophisticate dialogue
Disadvantages: Characters a little outdated

...I have been involved in amateur dramatics for some time now and have performed in numerous plays. By far my favourite genre is comedy and none better than the plays of Oscar Wilde. Wilde’s humour is funny in a gentle witty manner and forms a sardonic comment on society. An Ideal Husband is, as is perhaps to be expected, a play about love and marriage. It focuses on the marriage of Sir Robert Chiltern (my part and hence my user name) and his wife, Gertrude. Chiltern’s career and reputation is well established in politics as a leading member of parliament. However in his early day, Chiltern committed a misdemenour which now returns to haunt him. He is threatened with blackmail and turns to his friend Lord Goring for advice. Lord Goring is a resolute bachelor and womanizer. He is charming, aristocratic, handsome and a smooth talker... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful language, excellent story.
Disadvantages: It can be on the long side.

...A line from one the play's most famous speeches says it all. Hamlet by William Shakespeare is hailed as one of his finest plays and I agree. It has everything that a story needs - action, romance, revenge, betrayal, incest comedy and of course beautiful language. Hamlet is Prince of Denmark; his uncle, Claudius has now married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet has never been the same since his father's (also Hamlet) mysterious death, and is not happy with his mother's all too hasty marriage to Claudius. Upon seeing a ghost of his father who tells Hamlet that he was murdered by Claudius, it makes Hamlet start to plot against Claudius, the now king of Denmark. With great scenes of Hamlet playing mad with Polonius to scenes of pure poetry such as "The readiness is all" speech, and of course the most famous line from any play, the "To... Read review

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