Play within a play is one of the standard theatrical devices that Shakespeare uses in his plays. The audience can evaluate the effectiveness of performance in the play with the convincing performance of the actors on stage. Disguise in appearance and mindset appears as a commonality to construct the play within a play; however the…
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Theatre and Reality through Performance and Truth
Shakespeare’s plays have been analyzed for many years, and the similarity of almost all analysis is that Shakespeare constructed his plays as a play-within-a-play. Among the many reasons that we can state for such a structuring, one of it is to point to the function of performance, which was to emphasize truth and bring out…
Read MoreTransformation of Identity, Mood & Attitude
The search for the true self and the instability of moods and attitudes is a theme commonly used through the centuries. The re-discovery of the self, the changing identities, moods that play on thin strings of the mind and emotions are sometimes the result of certain transformations that individuals and situations go through, and these…
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