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Marlowe's Doctor Faustus Finds Reality: In The Comic Mask, Eva Marie Enis
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus Finds Reality: In The Comic Mask, Eva Marie Enis
Masters Theses
Scholars have considered the protagonist of Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus from nearly every perspective, but, at the same time, they have been hesitant to recognize the humorous incidents, particularly the so-called clownish scenes, as having a legitimate place even though much comic incident appears in Marlowe's source. Though scholars have acknowledged Marlowe's play to be a morality, they have not viewed Faustus as a morality character whose comic mask is his reality.
An examination of the morality tradition, with Marlowe's debt to the morality in mind, justifies the inclusion of much …
Notebook To Stage: The Creative Process In Dramatic Art, Terry Kroenung
Notebook To Stage: The Creative Process In Dramatic Art, Terry Kroenung
Masters Theses
The following paper is the description of a creative fine arts project involving the writing, direction, and design of an original play, Sons of the Morning. This work is examined from both literary and theatrical viewpoints, with an eye to evaluating the entire learning experience.
Structuralism is used as the critical mode in the literary analysis. This technique reveals the existence of many dichotomies--good/evil, strength/weakness, love/hate--in theme, plot, and character. These opposites create conflict, the basis of drama, and contrast. They are the source of tensions between the characters and within each individual. The dichotomies are also seen to …
Character Motivation And Definition Through Dialog In The Memory Plays Of Harold Pinter, Douglas E. Grohne
Character Motivation And Definition Through Dialog In The Memory Plays Of Harold Pinter, Douglas E. Grohne
Masters Theses
Several critics have suggested that the plays of Harold Pinter are incomprehensible because the characters do not explicitly explain their actions and motivations. These comments come because the critics and audiences are conditioned to expect a playwright to in some way explain the motivations and personalities of his characters with a standard explanation given through explicit dialog, copious stage directions, or other means. But Pinter believes that it is dangerous for a playwright to design a play with one overall purpose in mind because the chances are that the purpose will be mistaken.
Pinter prefers to write in a realistic …
Chekhov, The Doctor As Dramatist: A Study Of The Four Major Plays, Gloria Rhoads
Chekhov, The Doctor As Dramatist: A Study Of The Four Major Plays, Gloria Rhoads
Masters Theses
Studying the relationship of Chekhov's being a doctor to his being a dramatist reveals one reason for the scientific objectivity in his writing. Moreover, extensive reading of his letters and notes as well as careful readings of his plays leaves little doubt that he himself considered that his career as a doctor had a great impact on the plays he created.
Chekhov felt that a writer must not beautify reality or gloss over it but carefully present it as it is. He wrote that the writer must renounce subjectivity and report the grime of life along with the good; he …