RIDERS TO THE SEAa play in one-actby John Millington Synge The following one-act play is reprinted from Riders to the Sea. John M. Synge. Boston: John W. Luce, 1911. It is now in the public domain and may therefore be performed without royalties.CHARACTERSMAURYA, an old womanBARTLEY, her sonCATHLEEN, her daughterNORA, a youngerContinue Reading
Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The play’s title is named after the central female character of a middle-aged housewife. The naming indicates Candida’s singular importance in the play and since Shaw, in aContinue Reading
Shaw’s ‘problem play’, Candida, deals with ‘The Woman Question’ in so far as it is a play about the issue of freedom of a domestic woman who is at the centre of the dramatic discourse. Candida is a very beautiful and seductive woman. She can charm men and usually gets what sheContinue Reading
Candida, written by George Bernard Shaw in 1894, is a domestic comedy that explores themes of love, marriage, and the dynamics of power within relationships. The play is part of Shaw’s “Plays Pleasant” collection and stands out for its intellectual dialogue and subtle social commentary. The story centers around Candida,Continue Reading
Power and suffering constitutes the leading theme of Marlowe’s play Edward II. The assertion and the exercise of power and authority are a recurrent theme in this play. Suffering – sometimes delayed – results directly from the exercise of power and authority. The subject of this play is the reignContinue Reading
In comparison to Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, or Barabas the Jew, Edward II is not a typical Marlovian hero. He is not portrayed as one with so much outer glory, intelligence, villainy, or ambition as has been bestowed to the other three. It might even be argued that, compared to theContinue Reading
The “Murder Scene” [V.v] of King Edward is the horrible climax of the “Deposition Scene” [V.i]. Here we find the king facing indescribable ignominy and humiliation. According to Charles Lamb, “The death scene of Marlowe’s king moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern…” The king is shownContinue Reading
The play Edward II reaches its emotional climax in scene I, Act V where the king’s image as an irresponsible and weak person undergoes a total transformation, and he emerges as a tragic figure in his understanding of the worthlessness of a king stripped of power. The scene well representsContinue Reading
Scholar R.M. Dawkins once called Faustus “a Renaissance man who had to pay the medieval price for being one.” Doctor Faustus has frequently been interpreted as depicting a clash between the values of the medieval world and the emerging spirit of the sixteenth-century Renaissance. In medieval Europe, Christianity and GodContinue Reading
Dr. Faustus the protagonist of Christopher Marlowe’s great tragedy can be considered as a tragic hero similar to the other tragic characters such as Oedipus or Hamlet. Dr. Faustus who sells his soul to Lucifer in exchange of twenty four years of knowledge ought to have some special features inContinue Reading
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