Category: Drama

After World War 2 there was a rise in political tension, societal changes and the decline of religious faith. As a result, a theatrical shift took place in which playwrights moved away from the objective aim of realism theatrical approach to explore the subjective attitudes and inner conflict that plagued people following World War 2.…

Waiting for Godot is a play composed by Samuel Beckett in French between 1948 and 1949. It first premiered in 1953 in Paris and later, in 1955, in London. The theatre of that time consisted of plays, which mirrored everyday life. They were, above all else, grounded in reality. Becketts play, compared to its contemporary…

As noted by Dunn, J., & Stinson, M. (2011) that for more than 30 years drama has been promoted as a valuable teaching tool for language learning. As a graduating teacher who is specialising in educating EALD students it is important to develop creativity and teacher artistry that is beneficial in enhancing language learning for…

INTRODUCTION Drama involves performance and it has been used as a tool in the line of education, it involves self-expression and way of learning. This aspect of drama involves the students socially, emotionally and physically to relate well with others and the issues that affect them in their day to day lives. The activities involved…

What is Drama? There is a few definition of drama but the most common is that drama is to revive a word, a concept, an experience, an event by developing games or games. It is a kind of literature which is written in poetic, narrative or dialogues and consists of the writing of the genealogical…

Introduction Pre-school play and creative dramatics in todays educational system remains the primary steps to pre-school education. This educational steps are important ways of articulating the persons feeling in a healthy manner; to improve the child’s imagination, to enable child to reflect and act independent, to improve the child’s group cognizance and supportive consciousness. Drama…

Elizabethan drama developed upon the medieval Miracle plays, Morality, Interlude, Masques, and Pantomime that largely dealt with biblical and mythological themes. The Tudor dynasty introduced secular themes in drama; exercising his monarchical powers, …Henry VIII was inadvertently legitimizing great national issues as subjects for plays. (Saquet, 1968, pp .105.). Queen Elizabeth I, on her part,…

This essay will analyse and discuss the duality of pairing, doubling and binary oppositions in Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot. Waiting for Godot is an ambiguity which permits for a variety of readings, the play consisting of many interpretations that can exist alongside one another without being jointly exclusive. Duality is an important part of…

In the World War II, People lost their almost everything and the there is a gloomy life in thisperiod. Some play writers transferred this into literature by writing theatre, novel and poem. After all lived things, The Theatre of the Absurd showed up. The Theatre of the Absurd (French:théâtre de l’absurde[teQt(Y) dY lapsyd]) is a…

The Theatre of the Absurd was a dramatic philosophic movement in France during the 1950s. This metaphysical theory was thought to be influenced by World War II considering that the Nazis were infiltrating France. With people feeling hopeless to the inhumane treatment of others it is hard to think that there is a meaning to…