FIRST PAPER Subject : # 14159 Curs Monogràfic: Shakespeare through Performance Student´s name: Figueroa Guerola, Saturnino Title of the paper: Importance of the father’s figure in The Tempest Author or topic: William Shakespeare Abstract: Introduction: The Tempest is a play that shows us the special relationship between a father and his daughter. However, Shakespeare represents […]
INTRODUCTION Traditionally Shakespeare’s comedies have highlighted the role of women, they have been considered a basic element in order to construct the play. However, few people give importance to the father’s figure and it occupies a secondary position in modern criticism. Critics have long recognized the centrality of family relationships in Shakespeare’s drama, but the […]
CONTENT SUMMARY The play starts with two characters apparently secondary like a Ship-master and a Boteswaine. Shakespeare puts the spectators on the atmosphere of a ship that is passing through a tempest and sinks. Image of Prospero and Miranda The next characters are the components of the sub-plot (Alonso, Sebastian, Anthonio, Ferdinando and Gonzalo), the […]
CONCLUSION The Tempest is a complete play where Shakespeare mixes the techniques he has used before. In such plays as The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest Shakespeare combines a mixture of comic and tragic styles, incorporating elements of both romance and realism in a manner which differs distinctly from the style of his earlier plays. […]
BIBLIOGRAPHY Basic bibliography – Shakespeare, William. The Tempest (1623). Rendered in html by Brent Whitted and Paul Yachnin. Internet Shakespeare Editions. The University of Victoria (Victoria B.C.), 25 July 2011. Web 21 October 2011. ©http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/Tmp/F1/scene/1.1 (All scenes) – Leach, Robert. Theatre Studies, the basic. New York: Routledge, 2008 ©(http://books.google.es/books?id=LaDUsrRtbAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=theatre+studies+the+basics&hl=es&ei=sFKlTvewIYGx8QPWMzkBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=bookthumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6wEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false – Dreher, Diane Elizabeth. Domination & […]
SECOND PAPER Subject : # 14159 Curs Monogràfic: Shakespeare through Performance Student´s name: Figueroa Guerola, Saturnino Title of the paper: The importance of the relationship father-daughter in Shakespeare’s comedies Author or topic: William Shakespeare Abstract: Introduction: This paper is focused on the plays A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and The Merchant of […]
INTRODUCTION Context The relationship between men and women are constant in society and Shakespeare uses this fact as a scenario to build his comedies. But to understand completely these representations is necessary that the spectator thinks as a person of the XVI century, a period of time where women did not have any voice and […]
CONTENT SUMMARY 1. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM One cover page of the play It is a comedy based on the love of two couples of characters (Lysander and Hermia; Demetrius and Helena) and the adventures that they suffer in a magic forest. Shakespeare uses magic to break the original love situation of Lysander and Hermia […]
CONCLUSION Through the analysis of the plays the reader understands why Shakespeare’s theatre is the major literary legacy of the humanity. Each detail is written with extremely attention and every word used is the best option for the space that it occupies. Classic literature has an advantage, the reader or the spectator can constantly see […]
BIBLIOGRAPHY Basic bibliography – Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1623). Rendered in html by Suzanne Westfall. Internet Shakespeare Editions. The University of Victoria (Victoria B.C.), 16 February 2011. Web 25 November 2011. ©(http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/MND/F1/default/) (All scenes) – Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing (1623). Internet Shakespeare Editions. The University of Victoria (Victoria B.C.), 16 February […]
