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The Natural World and Evil in Macbeth

The Natural World and Evil in Macbeth When Macbeth ascended the Scottish throne, the monarchy was not the only thing that was severely affected by the evil of his reign. The natural world, the unnatural world, the political of the play, as well as the physical world were all negatively affected. When it came to nature in Macbeth, Shakespeare used a medieval belief of how nature and society formulate together (Raikespeare in Film), the concept of murder, corruption of the human soul, witchcraft and curses (Pilkington). Macbeth stands as a representation of the medieval belief of the ‘Great Chain of Being’ or scala naturae in Latin. This belief was introduced Neoplatonic corporatism, or the belief that society needs to be in formal divided parts that complement the function of the whole as a corpus or a body (Raikespeare in Film). (The Great Chain of Being, THEEMPIREOFFILMS) The natural order of this chain acted as a pyramid. At the very top there was God, next below were Angels ...
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The Science, History, and Future of Olfactory Design

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For centuries, thousands of theatres around the world have focused on the basic design concepts. These concepts include the design of sets, costumes, lights, and props. These designs are put together in order to bring what is on the script to life on the stage. This required putting together the many artful talents of a large group of people into a single product that draws the eye of the audience, but do productions always have to attract sight as opposed to other four senses? Take for instance, the sense smell? While olfaction design may be invisible to the eye, it can still prove to be as powerful of an element as the rest of the set, sound, and actions. According to Graham’s laws of gas diffusion, odors travel very slowly in still air, but can travel very fast when they are helped by air movement. The expression of Graham’s law of gas diffusion is as follows: U (r ,t) = □(Q/(2Dπ )) f [r/(√(4Dt))] The concentration U (r, t) is measured in molecules/cm3. r represents distance ...
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Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice Dramaturgical Protocol

Eurydice Dramaturgy Protocol by Sarah Kohler on Scribd
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Modernization of Shakespeare In Film

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Modernization of Shakespeare In Film The works of William Shakespeare have been wildly known to change many things in our modern world, including our literary stance, the English language, and of course film and television. The first film to ever feature Shakespeare’s work was a photographic record of a production of King John performed on the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree’s stage in 1899 (Brooke). It was directed by William Kennedy and it starred Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as King John. The film itself was a brief excerpt from King John’s death scene (Brooke).                                                                                                                          ...
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The Basis of Shakespeare’s Language and Exploration of Mental Illness

The Basis of Shakespeare’s Language and Exploration of Mental Illness             Many see William Shakespeare as the name an extraordinary individual who wrote over thirty-eight plays (folger.edu) and 154 sonnets (AbsoluteShakespeare.com), but he is mostly known for his uniquely famous language that he brought forward that other playwright or poet of his time could be known for.             During Shakespeare’s time, there were no dictionaries and organized grammar books were not composed until the 1700s (about 100 years after Shakespeare’s death) (Shakespeare Resource Center) . The closest thing to a dictionary was Robert Cawdrey’s Table Alphabeticall, which was published in 1604 (British Library) , which was long after Shakespeare  received an education at King’s New School in Stratford-upon-Avon during his youth (Donnelly and Woledge, 2010). Shakespeare did not r...
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