Theatre
Traditional Western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy. A tragedy typically ended with the death or destruction of a fictional or historical hero, whereas a comedy focused on the lives of middle to lower class characters and ended with their success.in this essay I want to make comparison between the European theatre and the Middle east theatre the first playwrite Oscar Wilde and his work “the importance of being earnest”.the second one is Tawfik El Hakim and his famous play”the fate of cockroaches”.
The Importance of Being Earnest was written by playwright / novelist / poet and all around literary genius, Oscar Wilde (Dublin 1854- Paris 1900) The true name of Oscar Wilde was Oscar Fingall O´Flahertie Wills Wilde, he was the son of the surgeon William Wilde and the writer Jane Francesca Elgee, he went to the Royal School and to the Trinity College of Dublin. Thanks to his talent and personal delight he soon did himself a place on the literary world of London as an essayist and poet. The plays It premiered in London in 1895 at St. James’s Theatre. Set in London and the English countryside during the late 19th century, The Importance of Being Earnest is a both a whimsical romantic comedy as well as a sharp-witted satire of Victorian society. “ The Importance of Being Earnest” is one of the most known plays of Oscar Wilde, is the most brilliant of all his comedies, through the absurd of the action and very sharp dialogues, the virtuosity and the exaggerated sentimentalist are exposed to the liberation of laugh. Wilde plays with the sense of the sentence, since - The importance of being earnest - can have two meanings, in one hand, it can mean to have a fixed name, in this case, the name of Ernest; in the other hand it can mean to be self-sufficient, talking about money; the reader can choose between these two options because they are different in writing but equal in pronunciation. The play Begins in a flat in London
The Importance of Being Earnest was written by playwright / novelist / poet and all around literary genius, Oscar Wilde (Dublin 1854- Paris 1900) The true name of Oscar Wilde was Oscar Fingall O´Flahertie Wills Wilde, he was the son of the surgeon William Wilde and the writer Jane Francesca Elgee, he went to the Royal School and to the Trinity College of Dublin. Thanks to his talent and personal delight he soon did himself a place on the literary world of London as an essayist and poet. The plays It premiered in London in 1895 at St. James’s Theatre. Set in London and the English countryside during the late 19th century, The Importance of Being Earnest is a both a whimsical romantic comedy as well as a sharp-witted satire of Victorian society. “ The Importance of Being Earnest” is one of the most known plays of Oscar Wilde, is the most brilliant of all his comedies, through the absurd of the action and very sharp dialogues, the virtuosity and the exaggerated sentimentalist are exposed to the liberation of laugh. Wilde plays with the sense of the sentence, since - The importance of being earnest - can have two meanings, in one hand, it can mean to have a fixed name, in this case, the name of Ernest; in the other hand it can mean to be self-sufficient, talking about money; the reader can choose between these two options because they are different in writing but equal in pronunciation. The play Begins in a flat in London