Love Through The Ages - Wider Reading

LOVE THROUGH THE AGES
Mark Connor




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Contents:
1. P. 2 - Drama:
1. P. 3 - Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, 1597
2. P. 4 - Othello ­ William Shakespeare, 1601
3. P. 6 - Ghosts ­ Henrik Ibsen, 1882
4. P. 7 - Uncle Vanya ­ Anton Chekov, 1898
5. P. 9 - A View…

Drama




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Romeo and Juliet (Drama)
Author: William Shakespeare Date of Publication: 1597 (Elizabethan)

Short summary:
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are `star-cross'd' lovers destined to die as predicted first by the
Chorus in the prologue. When Romeo meets Juliet they are both immediately smitten. They come
from different feuding families and…

examples of true loyalty: Romeo kills Tybalt in revenge for his murdering of Mercutio, his best friend.
This is odd to the audience, as Romeo is presented as a lover, not a fighter, and so shows him to be
deeply passionate and rash ­ probably due to his immaturity. Another…

the Turks, Othello, Desdemona, Iago and Michael Cassio (a handsome high ranking man in Othello's
army) leave to defend it.

Iago, jealous of Othello and Cassio, leads Othello to believe Desdemona is being unfaithful to him
with Cassio. Othello tormented, struggles to come to terms with this (untrue) idea, and…

Ghosts (Drama)
Author: Henrik Ibsen Date of Publication: 1882 (Victorian)

Short summary:
Helen Alving is about to dedicate an orphanage she has built in the memory of her dead husband,
Captain Alving. She reveals to her spiritual advisor, Pastor Manders, that she has hidden the evils of
her marriage, and…

The play links to many of Ibsen's other plays such as A Doll's House where a person's duty to their
family is also heavily discussed ­ Torvald argues that it is Nora's duty to remain in an unhappy
marriage to him. Comparisons can be made to McEwan's On Chesil Beach…

worked with Vanya to keep the estate going, meanwhile suffers from the awareness of her own lack
of beauty and from her unrequited feelings for Dr. Astrov. Matters are brought to a crisis when the
Professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sonya's home and reason for…

A View from the Bridge (Drama)
Author: Arthur Miller Date of Publication: 1955 (Modernism)

Short summary:
The narrator, Alfieri, is a lawyer in his fifties. The play revolves around Eddie Carbone, a forty year
old longshoreman working on the docks near Brooklyn Bridge. Eddie and his wife, Beatrice live with…