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rennoelle (57)in #theatre • 5 years ago
Ian McKellen as King Lear, National Theatre Live
National Theatre Live broadcasts a modern-day telling of Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by Jonathan Munby and starring Ian McKellen. Broadcasted live from the Chichester…
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
Shakespeare's Measure for Measure: A Question of Justice
Measure for Measure , a play that fails to fit as a tragedy or a comedy, was known as Shakespeare's "problem play" because of its uncertain categorization. This humorous play…
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
Living Theatre: Atomic bombs, Radium Mines, and Connection in Burning Vision by Canadian playwright Marie Clements
Burning Vision by Métis writer Marie Clements is play that connects people from three different countries and four different nationalities to a single event: the atomic…
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- Author $18.38
- Curators $2.33
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rennoelle (57)in #writing • 6 years ago
A Good Cook Never Fails (A Creative Imitation of 1 Corinthians 13)
Though I stand in the kitchen with an apron tied around my waist and a stirring spoon in my hand, and am not a good cook, I become as a misleading raisin cookie, or an…
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
Living Theatre: Staging Ritual in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman
Death and the King's Horseman by Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka is based on true events that happened in Nigeria under British colonial rule in 1946. The character Elesin is…
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- Author $17.22
- Curators $5.30
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Brutus, The Tragic Hero
While Shakespeare’s historical tragedy Julius Caesar is titled after Julius, it is Brutus who becomes the tragic hero by the closing act of the play. Brutus, despite his role…
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- Author $14.49
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rennoelle (57)in #writing • 6 years ago
The Ten Commandments of UNO
I am thy favourite card game, who rescued thee from times of boredom, out from the grasp of idleness. Thou shalt have none other card games before me. Thou shalt not use any…
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- Author $22.01
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
PTSD in Literature. Case Study: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, PART 2
Twentieth-century author Virginia Woolf shows how English society continues to be affected by the devastation of World War I in the years of peace through her celebrated novel…
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- Author $14.65
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
Shakespeare's Richard III: No Redemption
Richard III , a historical tragedy and one of the earliest works by the one and only William Shakespeare displays a protagonist who is solely bent on evil. While other…
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- Author $23.07
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
PTSD in Literature. Case Study: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf, a twentieth-century writer, offers a portrait of life in England after World War I and how society, and especially soldiers, continues to be affected by the war…
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- Author $20.63
- Curators $6.13
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
Zamyatin's We: A Utopian Dream Turned Totalitarian Nightmare
In his article “The Death of Utopia Reconsidered,” Leszek Kolakowski describes social utopia as trying to accomplish “perfect and everlasting human fraternity” and equality…
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- Author $20.48
- Curators $6.36
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
Religious Imagery in P. D. James's The Children of Men
The theme of religion is a topic that is constantly present in P. D. James’ dystopic novel The Children of Men . In a world where there is no hope nor future for humankind…
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- Author $20.32
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rennoelle (57)in #art • 6 years ago
Living Theatre: Staging Sight and Blindness in Oedipus the King
The theme of sight and blindness is heavily present throughout Sophocles’s play, Oedipus Rex (also known as Oedipus the King ). Oedipus is blind to his crimes, yet he…
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- Author $19.85
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
Ursula Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven: Taoism and Utopia
Ursula Le Guin’s use of Taoism should shape one’s interpretation of The Lathe of Heaven in its entirety. While the Western world might be tempted to view the novel from…
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- Author $18.13
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rennoelle (57)in #life • 6 years ago
What's Next? Graduating With A BA English
April 21. I stand in line with my graduating class, all wearing black gowns and caps with a blue tassel dangling by our right ears. Music swells as the orchestra begins playing…
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- Author $18.28
- Curators $5.89
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rennoelle (57)in #film • 6 years ago
Film Study: Hope for Tomorrow in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men
In a near-future dystopia, Alfonso Cuarón creates a world where humanity has become infertile. Without the ability to reproduce, humanity loses its hope for the future because…
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- Author $0.30
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
The Question of Humanity: The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
Zombies are one of the more frightening monsters in film and literature because they are intelligent, emotional, and moral human beings who are transformed into dead, instinctual…
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- Author $28.24
- Curators $8.71
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rennoelle (57)in #writing • 6 years ago
#tbt Nine-year-old Storyteller: "The Cave"
Even at nine-years-old, I knew I wanted to be a writer. I filled up pages and pages of journals with half-finished stories and story ideas and character drawings. Sometimes, I…
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rennoelle (57)in #literature • 6 years ago
Postcolonial Studies: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Achebe's "An Image of Africa"
In his 1977 article called “An Image of Africa,” Chinua Achebe, who is a scholar of African literature, addresses the Western assumption that the West embodies the ideal cultural…
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- Author $11.05
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rennoelle (57)in #writing • 6 years ago
#tbt Nine-year-old Storyteller: The Mystery Egg
When a nine-year-old aspiring writer is given the prompt to write about a "mystery," this is the result... Got to love all those adjectives and adverbs! The Mystery Egg…
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- Author $13.73
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