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Advantages: Entertaining , Enjoyable , Good Characters
Disadvantages: Cliffhanger At End

...black and spooky , with an image of what appears to be a of a young girl who looks afraid. There are hands by her face although it is unclear whether they are her hands or someone else's hands. The cover has a spooky feel to it. I noticed that this book was written by a man I had never heard of before. His name , J.B Priestley. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Before moving on I will tell you a bit about J.B.Priestley. Priestley was born on 13th ...
...aged 89 in Warwickshire. An Inspector Calls is a play written between 1944 and 1945. Subjects included in the play include relationships , wealth , class and morality. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Our teacher told us , that we would begin work on this book straight away. I opened the book and was greeted by a list of stage settings. Usually , I would have skipped this part automatically , however our teacher read it out aloud to us. Once she'd ... Read review

Advantages: complex characters
Disadvantages: felt a bit suffocated whilst reading

A Doll House was the first of Ibsen's plays to create such a HUGE sensation and I think it is now perhaps his most famous play. It is my favourite Ibsen play. At the time when it was published, the play was highly controversial due to it's blatent criticicism of the standard Victorian marriage. About the author Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright of the late 19th century. He brought to the European stage a whole new order of moral analysis ...
...the action takes place in a single room in the Torvald household. Style Due to the realistic nature of the play, Ibsen wrote the dialogue in simple, day to day, middle-class language rather than the typically elegant language characteristic of romantic plays. It is a 3 act play. Themes -Individuals and families-how things start to fail when males oppress females, reducing them to mere toys and objects -Living a lie is not living at all. -Money ... Read review

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Disadvantages: Characters a little outdated

...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 ...
...a resolute bachelor and womanizer. He is charming, aristocratic, handsome and a smooth talker and has a clear view on marriage, "Other people are quite dreadful. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." However, women are instinctively drawn towards him vying for his attention and seeking to win him as their husband including the would-be blackmailer, Mrs. Cheveley and Gertrude’s sister, Mabel. Without giving too much of the plot ... Read review

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, ... Read review

Advantages: Funnier than other Shekaspeare plays
Disadvantages: The language is hard to understand.

...adventures take place and create a very enjoyable play within the human's story. However, there are another three characters involved in the human's story and that is Egeus, Theseus and Hippolyta. Egeus is the overprotective father who wants her daughter, Hermia, to marry another man, Demetrius. Theseus and Hippolyta are the equivalent of the king and queen area and are to marry very soon: 'And she is mine, and all my right of her, I do estate unto ...
...seriously believes that he is a good, honest nobleman but Hermia still wants to marry Lysander: 'The worst that may befall me in this case, If I refuse to wed Demetrius'. The worst in this case is the fact that if Hermia does not marry Demetrius, she will be beheaded and she is prepared to take that risk so that she can be with Lysander. The play about how love affects this group in particular and it shows all the different relationships between ... Read review