Essays on Drama

In Thailand, traditional theatre and dance are fully intertwined. Like, a form of popular folk theatre, has been well-known for Thai audiences since Ayutthaya period. Despite the fact that the origin of Likay is unclear, its popularity has developed from time to time. There are...

The root of English dramatization appears dubious. There’s no certain prove demonstrating its root. It can be followed back from century of succeeding Norman Victory to Britain. Many students of history accept that dramatization came to Britain alongside them. Dramatization is the shape of structure...

In Coriolanus, Volumnia is a strong, powerful mother who has raised the seemingly perfect soldier. She is constantly talking of the joys of war and how she hopes to see her son wounded. These wounds and the admiration that comes with them are a place...

Although Ralph Fiennes’ film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus sticks largely to the facts as reported in the original story, it differs noticeably from Plutarch’s Life of Coriolanus in terms of how the play tends to compress some events in order to increase the dramatization. Furthermore,...

The progress of American drama both as an art and a medium of expression has been witnessed with the dawn of the twentieth century. Joseph Wood Krutch states that significant American drama emerged during the 1920’s, when it became a serious part of American Literature....

Thomas Gainsborough (1727 – 1788) was an artist who, much like his influencers and contemporaries, was a pioneer in the technical use of light to not only give effect and drama to a painting, but to give it a sense of narrative as well. Born...

The Flick follows the workplace relationships of three underpaid move theater employees while they struggle not only to make a living but to find their purposes, their lives and their identities inside of the jobs that belittle their self-worth. The three main characters of The...