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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Yesufu‚ ed. Nigeria: National Open University of Nigeria‚ 2008. Milne‚ Ira Mark‚ ed. Literary Movements for Students‚ 2nd ed. USA Gale‚ 2009. Scholes‚ R. and C. H. Klaus. Elements of Drama. New York: Oxford University Press‚1971. Shaw‚ George Bernard‚ Candida (USA: An Electronic Classics Series Publication‚ 2003). Yesufu‚A.R.‚ed. Elements of Drama. Nigeria: National Open University of Nigeria‚ 2008.
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learning is old‚ whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” - Henry Ford “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind‚ it doesn’t matter.” - Mark Twain “No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” - Henry David Thoreau “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old
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Literary analysis of ‘Pygmalion’ by Bernard Shaw Shaw’s cleverly crafted and highly entertaining play mixes the Pygmalion myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses‚ with a Victorian-day twist. Shaw’s Pygmalion combines dimensional characters‚ an entertaining plotline and vibrant themes in a way that truly encapsulates Victorian high society. Set in high society‚ Pygmalion follows a bet made by two upper class gentlemen: phonetics teacher‚ Higgins; and his linguist friend Colonel Pickering. Higgins
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appiness Rests on Luckiness Moral philosophers‚ beginning with Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel‚ have recently broached the topic of moral luck in the philosophical literature. They limit their discussion however to considerations of how luck affects our ability to carry out actions or how it affects the consequences of our actions. I wish to suggest that luck is also an important factor in determining our actions as ends in themselves. What actions we may choose to perform for their own sake
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