Dramatists
Unseen Dramatist: Henrik Ibsen
Caryl Churchill
Tennesse Williams
Tennesse WIlliams is mostly famous for his play : 'A Streetcar named Desire'. Like this play, many of his other plays were adapted into films. In the film, we were able to see how the characters acted and how that linked to the description of their personality in the play itself. Blanche, in particular, was seen to be superior however she was also dramatic. This meant that the way she would talk to other characters was exaggerated. She also seemed to be very flirtatious as uses hand gestures when she speaks. From the scene of the film we watched we were able to percieve certain ideas of her character,in the way that she talks and how she acts. We were also able to determine the lanuage that Williams uses to create the personality of the characters. For example we found that he tends to use exaggeration and figurative language.
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller has been writing plays since he was a student at the University of Michigan and he also became a journalist. Most of his work is set in America where he portrays realistic characters and events. He discusses issues such as political and moral issues, he mostly writes Greek tragedies. I think that he is an interesting dramatist because he writes realistically and he writes about issues which is unique as these issues are not usually explored. Now he is considered as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century.
He has made several play that have been huge success such as: - All my Sons - Death of a Salesman - After the fall - The Price - The Crucible The language that Arthur Miller uses in The Crucible, in particular, is imagery, the use of his vocabularly, sentence structure and how he has been influenced. His plays usually consits of poetic and sophisticated language to address moral and political issues. In addition to this he also uses colloquial language which could suggest that his writing his very informal or that he uses conversational language. This makes him a special author because although he writes tragedies, he does not make them as upsetting as they are meant to be, for instance The Crucible. This is further explained in the video below: |