“The enormity of it [World War I] was quite beyond most of us‚” writes George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) in the preface to his extraordinary Heartbreak House‚ one of the playwright’s most important pieces. The play is the featured work this year at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake‚ Ontario‚ celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011. Written and set immediately prior to the First World War‚ Heartbreak House is a quasi-Chekhovian dark comedy about a society on the edge of a precipice. Shaw delayed
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Knowledge comes‚ but wisdom lingers. Lord Tennyson Frailty‚ thy name is woman! Shakespeare In the end‚ everything is a gag. Charlie Chaplin The best love affairs are those we never had. Norman Lindsay Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. Will Rogers Fortune favors the brave. Virgil I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short. Blaise Pascal Great works are performed
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Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s
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The Creation of Johari Window The Creation of Johari Window Ever since the creation of life‚ humans have fought with one and other‚ bickering‚ and talking behind each other’s backs. This is especially true in the workplace‚ who has not had an argument with a coworker? It seems like no one has anything nice to say about each other. Maybe people do have nice things to say‚ but the problem is finding a way to say them. There must be a way to improve this everlasting problem‚ which two men set out
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Review”: TDR 13.2 (Winter 1968) Griffith ‚Tony(1991) . Scandavia‚ Wakefield press. Ibsen ‚Hernia(1906) . A Dolls House‚ Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen‚ William Heinemann. Myers Michael (1987) .Strindberg Oxford University Press‚ Oxford Shaw ‚ Bernard Roberto D.Pomo. New York: Pearson Longman‚ 2001.
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- Anatole France “Reach high‚ for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep‚ for every dream precedes the goal.” - Pamela Vaull Starr “You see things; and you say‚ ’Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say‚ ’Why not?’” - George Bernard Shaw “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” - Thomas Alva Edison “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein “He is able who thinks he is able.” - Buddha
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the author My Fair Lady was originally a stage musical based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Alan Jay Lerner adapted George Bernard Shaw’s play for the musical My Fair Lady. Alan Jay Lerner’s words for the songs use many of the spoken words in Shaw’s play. This was partly because Lerner‚ by law‚ had to stay as close as possible to the original. The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 –1950) was born in Dublin‚ but moved to London when he was twenty‚ and soon began publishing
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The limitations for Women “Mrs. Warren’s Profession”‚ written in 1893 by George Bernard Shaw‚ is a play that centers around the relationship between Mrs. Kitty Warren‚ a brothel owner‚ and her daughter‚ Vivie‚ an intelligent and hardheaded young woman. The women in this play are underpaid‚ undervalued‚ and overworked. A good comparison that explores women in the Victorian era is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte‚ written in 1846. Wuthering Heights goes in depth about the social classes that
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Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis. Its most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde‚ who opined in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that‚ "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". In the essay‚ written as a Platonic dialogue‚ Wilde holds that anti-mimesis "results not merely from Life’s imitative instinct‚ but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression‚ and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through
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The 12 Dramatic Elements These twelve dramatic elements are at the core of all drama. These elements are typically taught at professional acting classes. They can be used in isolation or simultaneously and are manipulated by the performer for dramatic effect. 1. Focus Focus is often used interchangeably with the terms concentration and engagement‚ assisting the performer in the portrayal of believable characters. This also implies memorisation of text (including word‚ moves and gestures). Furthermore
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