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Full-Text Articles in Playwriting
The American Dream
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Theatre 25 Fall 1974 performance of The American Dream by Edward Albee.
The Emperor’S Daughters
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Theatre 25 Fall 1974 performance of The Emperor’s Daughters by Cena Christopher Draper.
The Trojan Women
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1974 performance of The Trojan Women by Euripides.
The Trojan Women tells the story of the fates of four women after the fall of the city of Troy.
American Primitive
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1974 performance of American Primitive by William Gibson.
American Primitive is constructed from the correspondence of John and Abigail Adams and tells their story during the period of the American Revolution.
Gertrude & Volumnia: Their Influences On Their Sons At The Climaxes Of The Plays, Laddawan Bunchoo
Gertrude & Volumnia: Their Influences On Their Sons At The Climaxes Of The Plays, Laddawan Bunchoo
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The examination of the climaxes of the two plays Hamlet, and Coriolanus, illustrates that the two mothers, Gertrude and Volumnia, have destructive influences on their sons. The closet scene in Hamlet reflects that Gertrude's second marriage and her choice of Claudius shatter Hamlet's Idealization of her in the role of the faithful wife and the virtuous mother. Hamlet's inaction and destruction are caused in part by his mother's influence.
Volumnia's influence both shapes and destroys her son. She rears him as the embodiment of her chivalric ideal of nobility. The climactic scene in this play reveals that Coriolanus' …
An Analysis Of The Themes Of Guilt And Atonement In The Writings Of Tennessee Williams, James Curry
An Analysis Of The Themes Of Guilt And Atonement In The Writings Of Tennessee Williams, James Curry
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The themes of guilt and atonement have been analyzed in selected writings of Tennessee Williams. Research concerning these two themes has been developed simultaneously with Williams’s concept of the universe and man. Many of Williams’s characters seek a form of atonement or purification for their guilt which has arisen due to their “incompleteness and unnatural desires.” Williams’s basic concept concerning the universe is that it is fragmented, a universe not completed by its Creator. Consequently, Williams envisions man and his nature to be likewise incomplete. It is this incompletion in man which causes him to have “unnatural desires,” labeled as …
The Glass Menagerie
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1974 performance of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.
The Glass Menagerie is a memory play narrated and led by a young man named Tom, who recounts life with his mother Amanda and sister Laura. The play has strong autobiographical elements of the playwright Tennessee and his experience growing up with his mother and sister.
Christ In The Concrete City And The Prodigal Son
Christ In The Concrete City And The Prodigal Son
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s 1974 performances of Christ in the Concrete City by Philip Turner and The Prodigal Son by R.H. Ward, performed by the Religious Drama Company