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An Inspector Calls - nineteenth century immorality

Advantages: well written, good on social history, nice twist at the end, atmospheric
Disadvantages: could be seen as a bit old fashioned, not relevant to modern life

...I'm not too sure because times have changed with regard to the class system in England but as a look back at social history and those authors who tried to change things by writing about them, this play is certainly an interesting one and human nature does n't change. ...

janinbow 17.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

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Importance? To Whom?

Advantages: Ideal for group reading,
Disadvantages: background knowledge is almost essential

A Woman Of No Importance was written in a time when women had little or no place in the world, politically. Lord Illingworth, a womanising politician demonstrates this through his tendancies to leave women 'fallen'. The tale of Rachel Arbuthnot, a single mother in the 1890s, trying to teach her son, Gerald, of the evils of the world has her life torn apart when Lord Illingworth throws the ultimate spanner into the ultimate works. Thus leaving the ...
...the themes of the play. A Woman Of No Importance is ideal more as a project rather than night-time reading as research on the late nineteenth century and on Wilde himself, is highly recommeneded in order to fully understand the deeper meanings of Wilde's work. Despite being written to be viewed by 19th century middle class women, the play still continues to entertain a wide variety of audiences, both as reading and as a play. Wildes choice of characters, ...

chris213west 14.07.2006 · Read full review
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Review of A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde

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shakin'

Advantages: good story and something nice to act out
Disadvantages: slightly confusing in character switches

its a simple script and a perfect opputunity to act out a rewrite of an old play. if your looking around for something to perform, this is it. there are many ways it can be done and not many actors required. this book has made me realise that there are lot of people with problems. and after reading it i actuallymade me stop a few things that were troubling me. i reccomend you read this as it may help you with your problems assuming you have ...

ACRA 28.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Shakers (Re-Stirred) - John Godber

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Much Ado About Nothing

Advantages: its studied at GSCE english, so its important to read.
Disadvantages: It can be hard to read because the language is shakepearian.

Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing could perhaps be interpreted as a comedy of errors; all the relationships have problems, and many mistakes are made along the way. Shakespeare uses characters with small parts to give the play a more interesting story line. For instance the minor character of Don John creates issues between Claudio and Hero, one of the main relationships in the play. But the relationship of Benedick and Beatrice ...
...language is very important in Much Ado About Nothing. I think that Shakespeare’s ingenious title is actually a play on words itself because the difficulty Benedick and Beatrice have in getting together is “much ado about nothing” because their problem isn’t that they don’t love each other, it’s that they both hold their dignity too high to be able to let one and other know how they truly feel. After their conversation when Benedick is masked, he ...

sportscrazy-loz 16.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

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nothing comes out of no thing

Advantages: excellent mindcatcher
Disadvantages: none

...that is waiting. The word waiting is very strong in the title of this play it stand s out from all other words its not wait or wited its waiting that means that it is an action that is kepp on going without any end. This waiting is the epitome opf all our life. This waiting is infinite so it makes itself at one instance useless also because its without any end. If some one has seen the first part of matrix there is one line that really is echoing ...
...Estragon. Bothe of them are waiting for godot by a tree. The words that are most important in the play are nothing as they are liiterally doing nothing in the play all they are doing is waiting. They keep on waiting till the end of the play. As all the actions they do during this waiting are reduced to nothing. Then we are introduced to two new characters and one of them is Lucky who though is a servant has the intellect but he is treated as an animal. ...

sandy.imy 02.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

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