The Fairy-Queen Essays

. Purcell composed music and songs for the semi-opera The Fairy Queen (1692). The Fairy Queen was an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Although The Fairy Queen was considered a “semi-opera”, it required many performers. The performance consisted of singers, dancers, and actors. The Fairy Queen, first performed at London’s Dorset Garden Theatre in 1692, was so extravagant that additional performances had to be scheduled the following year to cover the expenses of the

“Hamlet” Versus. “The lion king” Introduction: As a child I was proposed to watch one of Disney's most famous movies “The lion king”. I didn’t quite think much of the plot, nor did i know that it was with clarity inspired from William Shakespeare’s classic play “Hamlet”. I focused more on the characters, and how they were. In my older years, i was introduced to the story of William Shakespeare's “Hamlet”. The story of “Hamlet” is unique, and it creates a history. I learned how Disney recreated the

The two adaptations by Luhrmann and Zeffirelli of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet into film, both convey a similar theme of forbidden love by using various lighting techniques and camera angles/movements; although, Zeffirelli does a better job at displaying this theme by his use of camera angles. The adaptations of Romeo and Juliet by both Luhrmann and Zeffirelli use lowkey and highkey lighting to help prove a forbidden lovers theme. The low-key lighting which is present in the beginning of the scene

How can a person’s greatest love become their greatest sorrow? This question is displayed through the actions of two cousins, Arcite and Palamon, in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale”. These two characters find what they believe to be their one true love, but they may lose each other in order to gain the hand of their beloved, Emily. They must battle against each other, and the champion will receive Emily’s hand in marriage. Both Arcite and Palamon pray to the gods, Mars, god of war, and Venus

In ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Shakespeare shows a variety of forms of love the most prevalent of which is the love between Romeo and Juliet. To only consider romantic love as the only form of love in the play would be reductive. Whilst the love between the “star-cross’d lovers’” could be considered ‘true love’ other forms of love include the forced love felt by Juliet through the threat of marriage, family love and the infatuation that Romeo feels for Rosaline at the beginning of the play. Shakespeare shows

Hamlet Postcard Secret: Ophelia My postcard secret is based on the character Ophelia from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. In the play, Ophelia was portrayed as an innocent girl that is naive when it comes to the concept of love. Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is Ophelia’s suitor. From their time together, Ophelia believes that Hamlet truly loves her. Unfortunately for her, the affection that hamlet had been providing her was misleading and as Hamlet spirals into madness, Hamlet’s true thoughts

Overall, Bad Girls is a well produced and well acted short film, with several strong aspects that make it stand out in the world of student films. These aspects include, lighting, locations, and acting. However, some aspects, primarily sound, revealed it to be a less than professional endeavor. First, the lighting throughout the film was consistently, not only well done, but often beautiful. Everything and everyone that was significant was well-lit and motivated. I was never distracted by poor lighting

Despite popular opinion, love at first sight does not exist. The idea of “love” is widely misinterpreted as a mere attraction between two individuals. However, many do not understand that love goes much further than this, and what follows is a common misconception between love and lust. Shakespeare in his 17th century play Twelfth Night delves deeper into this idea of love. He presents the character Duke Orsino who appear to be infatuated and love-sick for the Countess Olivia, a woman with which

Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen: A Case Study The evolution of music can be viewed as a linear timeline of key, innovative composers who have far-reaching influences upon the musical continuum and perhaps epitomises the societal views which are relevant to their time period through their canonical pieces. As a result, in order to conduct a case study into any piece of music one must first realise said piece in regards to the concurrent political climate. Between 1642 and 1651 England was characterised

I am written as the evil fairy in the tale as old as time. I cursed the beautiful child for no fault of her own, and I am the villain. I’m afraid that’s not how the events truly transpired. There is a hidden story, known to few, of what truthfully occurred. Here is the true story of what happened to the lovely Sleeping Beauty, Briar Rose. I once lived in a country ruled by a kind and just queen and king. Although they had nearly all they could want or need, there was one thing they wished for above

Tarsem Singh's 2012 Snow White adaptation 'Mirror Mirror' and Matt Phelan's 2016 Snow White graphic novel, we can analyse how character archetypes have changed throughout time, featuring similar characters in three vastly different adaptations of the fairy-tale, Snow White. Character archetypes represent society's ideals of different genders, roles and various individuals that each have personal attitudes and goals throughout the tale that carry the story. Different

The poem “The Visitor” by Gibbons Ruark immediately introduces the concept of an outsider “The Visitor” who comes to the household for a specific time to undertake a specific duty. The poet deftly analyses the themes of music and individual reaction to music in the poem. The visitor who is also the piano tuner is significant in repairing the musical atmosphere in the household such that even the cat evokes a musical response. The poet is set in the narrator’s house during the afternoon of the first

La Belle Dame sans Merci is a ballad written by John Keats in 1819. The title translates from French to ‘The beautiful lady without mercy’. The fact that the title is written in French shows the love as French is considered to be the language of love. The poem expresses about a Knight who was abandoned by a ‘beautiful’ woman that he met and he tells us what happened and how he ended up alone. The structure of the poem is written in the form of a ballad. A ballad is a narrative poem which is very

Often, people judge a person by how they look or what they wear on a day to day basis. In the book The Girl Who Drank The Moon, Xan and Luna fight through all the difficult times together. The author builds the theme by characterization and events. Every year the protectorat leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep the witch from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest xan, is kind. She shares her home with a swamp monster

it affects each person depends on their views of the world. In the musical Into the Woods, the Baker and the Baker’s Wife go into the woods to complete their quest. The Baker is the hero, and his journey integrates those of several other fairy tales. Each fairy tale character in this show has their own reason to go into the woods, but the Baker and his wife seem to be the most prominent storyline-- the one that ties all of the others together. This pedagogical story teaches the audience that the

Free as a Weed In Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Ophelia is interpreted to be a weak women, who goes mad over her love for Hamlet. She was generally pictured as a young, beautiful, obedient, and pious girl; she was a girl terrified of her father, her brother, and of her lover (“Teker”). However, this interpretation is incorrect. Just as Emily Thorne said, “there are two sides to every story and there are two sides to every person, one that we reveal to the world and one that we keep hidden”

Bystander apathy and effect is an idea that people are cruel or not willing to react when they are in a situation where a person in severe problem is in need of their essence they are not willing to react in a helping manner. This is not a rare thing in today's world the way people react in a situation will amaze people and inhuman acts to severe or weird situations whether these acts are deserving they shall not be left untreated. This is why it is important to read about bystander apathy and effect

When Andy Lippincott died from HIV/AIDS in 1990, the readers were appalled almost to the point of aggression. The reaction underlines the popularity of one of the most popular comic characters the world has ever seen. Andy Lippincott was a cartoon character in the comic strip Doonesbury. The character was one that mirrored the real life social aspects of the American public. For instance, when he first appears in the comic series, Joanie Caucus, his employee gets attracted to him and he confesses

There are few facts known to the common residents of modern Gravesend about the origins of their own local area. Gravesend is a neighborhood located in the most southern section of New York City in the borough of Brooklyn. Being one of the first colonial English towns in America, it holds a significant amount of historical content regarding the growth of America itself as a country, and the issues that it had once held in regards to equality. Women in particular, held limited rights that prevented

THE CHANDRA LEVY CASE The Chandra Levy Case In 2001, Chandra Ann Levy, a young, energetic and beautiful 24-year-old woman who was working as an intern at a federal office in Washington, D.C., mysteriously disappeared scandalizing the nation’s capital. Her disappearance immediately became the nation’s headline story. The mysterious case seemed to have come straight out of a Hollywood movie. Levy, was the daughter of a prominent wealthy Jewish family and student about to graduate from the University