DRAMA 2.

OSCAR WILDE 1854 – 1900 (IRELAND)

• Typically called PLAYS - A poet and dramatist
- Was a major spokesman for the aesthetic
• The portrayal of fictional or non-fictional
movement in late 19th-century England,
events through the performance of written
which focused on the idea of "art for art's
dialog (either prose or poetry)
sake."
• A composition in verse or prose presenting a
Some of his most well-known works include:
story in pantomime or dialogue
• A type of play written for theater, television,  The Happy Prince
radio, and film  The Importance of Being Earnest

What Makes Drama So Dramatic? 3. ARTHUR MILLER 1915 – 2005 (USA)

Dramatic Tension - A 20th century American playwright

- Known for combining social awareness
- builds as the audience keeps wondering with his character's inner lives
“What happens next?” and anticipating the
outcomes of those events Some of his most well-known works include:

- all about keeping the audience guessing  The Misfits

 Death of a Salesman
HISTORY
4. SAMUEL BECKETT 1856 – 1950
• Performed since the days of Aristotle (c. 335 (IRELAND)
BCE.
• A well-known author, critic, and
• The term “drama” comes from the Greek playwright
words δρᾶμα (an act, a play) and δράω (to
act, to take action) • Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969
• The two iconic masks of drama—the Some of his most well-known works include:
laughing face and the crying face—are the
 Waiting for Godot
symbols of two of the ancient Greek Muses:
 Endgame
Thalia, the Muse of comedy and Melpomene,
the Muse of tragedy. 5. SOPHOCLES 496 - 406 BC (GREECE)
FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHTS - One of the three great Greek
1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 1564 – 1616 playwrights (along with Aeschylus and
(ENGLAND) Euripides)
- One of the greatest writers of tragedy
- Widely regarded as greatest writer of the plays in ancient Greece
English language
- The world's greatest dramatist Some of his most well-known works include:
- Wrote over 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three  Oedipus Rex
long narrative poems, and many other  Antigone
works
TYPES OF DRAMA
Some of his most well-known works include:
COMEDY
 Romeo & Juliet
 A Midsummer Night's Dream TONE: Light
 Hamlet  Make The Audience Laugh
 Macbeth
 Happy Ending
- places offbeat characters in unusual SUMMARY:
situations causing them to do and say funny things
Theseus, duke of Athens, is preparing for
- can also be sarcastic in nature, poking fun his marriage to Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons,
at serious topics with a four-day festival of pomp and
entertainment. He commissions his Master of the
Sub-genres:
Revels, Philostrate, to find suitable amusements
 Romantic comedy for the occasion. Egeus, an Athenian nobleman,
 Sentimental comedy marches into Theseus’s court with his daughter,
 A comedy of manners Hermia, and two young men, Demetrius and
 Tragic comedy Lysander. Egeus wishes Hermia to marry
Demetrius (who loves Hermia), but Hermia is in
Examples: love with Lysander and refuses to comply. Egeus
asks for the full penalty of law to fall on
 The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) by
Hermia’s head if she flouts her father’s will.
Oscar Wilde.
Theseus gives Hermia until his wedding to
 A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William
consider her options, warning her that disobeying
Shakespeare
her father’s wishes could result in her being sent
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM to a convent or even executed. Nonetheless,
(COMEDY) BY WILLIAM Hermia and Lysander plan to escape Athens the
following night and marry in the house of
SHAKESPEARE
Lysander’s aunt, some seven leagues distant
THEMES: Love Conquers All/Love’s Difficulty from the city. They make their intentions known
Magic; The Nature Of Dreams; The Relationships to Hermia’s friend Helena, who was once
Between Fantasy And Reality And Between engaged to Demetrius and still loves him even
Environment And Experience though he jilted her after meeting Hermia.
Hoping to regain his love, Helena tells Demetrius
CHARACTERS of the elopement that Hermia and Lysander have
planned. At the appointed time, Demetrius stalks
• Puck – A fairy servant of Oberon into the woods after his intended bride and her
• Hermia – Daughter of Egeus lover; Helena follows behind him.
• Lysander – Love Interest of Hermia
• Helena – Friend of Hermia In these same woods are two very different
• Demetrius – Whom Hermia betrothed to groups of characters. The first is a band of
• Egeus – Father of Hermia fairies, including Oberon, the fairy king, and
• Theseus - Duke of Athens Titania, his queen, who has recently returned
• Oberon & Titania – King & Queen of Fairies from India to bless the marriage of Theseus and
Hippolyta. The second is a band of Athenian
OVERVIEW craftsmen rehearsing a play that they hope to
perform for the duke and his bride. Oberon and
Due to a series of comical and Titania are at odds over a young Indian prince
unpredictable situations, young couples keep given to Titania by the prince’s mother; the boy is
falling in and out of love. As they struggle with so beautiful that Oberon wishes to make him a
the foibles of love, their equally amusing real- knight, but Titania refuses. Seeking revenge,
world problems are magically resolved by a Oberon sends his merry servant, Puck, to acquire
mischievous sprite named Puck. In the very a magical flower, the juice of which can be spread
Shakespearian happy ending, old enemies become over a sleeping person’s eyelids to make that
fast friends and the true lovers are united to live person fall in love with the first thing he or she
happily ever after. sees upon waking. Puck obtains the flower, and
Oberon tells him of his plan to spread its juice on
the sleeping Titania’s eyelids. Having seen
Demetrius act cruelly toward Helena, he orders
Puck to spread some of the juice on the eyelids of  Hamlet by William Shakespeare
the young Athenian man. Puck encounters
Lysander and Hermia; thinking that Lysander is OEDIPUS REX (TRAGEDY) BY
the Athenian of whom Oberon spoke, Puck SOPHOCLES
afflicts him with the love potion. Lysander
THEMES: The power of unwritten law, the
happens to see Helena upon awaking and falls
willingness to ignore the truth, the limits of free
deeply in love with her, abandoning Hermia. As
will
the night progresses and Puck attempts to undo
his mistake, both Lysander and Demetrius end MOTIFS: Suicide, sight and blindness, graves
up in love with Helena, who believes that they are and tombs
mocking her. Hermia becomes so jealous that she
CHARACTERS
tries to challenge Helena to a fight. Demetrius
and Lysander nearly do fight over Helena’s love,  Oedipus - King of Thebes
but Puck confuses them by mimicking their  Creon - The second-in-command in Thebes,
voices, leading them apart until they are lost brother-in-law of Oedipus.
separately in the forest.  Tiresias - A blind prophet who has guided
When Titania wakes, the first creature she the kings of Thebes with his advice and
sees is Bottom, the most ridiculous of the counsel.
Athenian craftsmen, whose head Puck has  Jocasta - Queen of Thebes, wife of Oedipus
mockingly transformed into that of an ass. Titania  Priest - A man bringing news of the royal
passes a ludicrous interlude doting on the ass- family to Oedipus
headed weaver. Eventually, Oberon obtains the  A Messenger from Corinth - man bringing
Indian boy, Puck spreads the love potion on news of the royal family to Oedipus
Lysander’s eyelids, and by morning all is well.  Shepherd - A herder from the nearby
Theseus and Hippolyta discover the sleeping mountains, who once served in the house of
lovers in the forest and take them back to Athens Laius.
to be married—Demetrius now loves Helena, and
OVERVIEW
Lysander now loves Hermia. After the group
wedding, the lovers watch Bottom and his fellow Oedipus Rex/ the King unfolds as a
craftsmen perform their play, a fumbling, murder mystery, a political thriller, and a
hilarious version of the story of Pyramus and psychological whodunit. Throughout this mythic
Thisbe. When the play is completed, the lovers go story of patricide and incest, Sophocles
to bed; the fairies briefly emerge to bless the emphasizes the irony of a man determined to
sleeping couples with a protective charm and then track down, expose, and punish an assassin, who
disappear. Only Puck remains, to ask the audience turns out to be himself.
for its forgiveness and approval and to urge it to
SUMMARY:
remember the play as though it had all been a
dream. As the play opens, the citizens of Thebes
beg their king, Oedipus, to lift the plague that
threatens to destroy the city. Oedipus has already
TRAGEDY sent his brother-in-law, Creon, to the oracle to
learn what to do.
TONE: Dark
On his return, Creon announces that the
 Rarely enjoying happy endings
oracle instructs them to find the murderer of
- portray serious subjects like death, Laius, the king who ruled Thebes before
disaster, and human suffering in a dignified and Oedipus. The discovery and punishment of the
thought-provoking way murderer will end the plague. At once, Oedipus
sets about to solve the murder.
Examples:
Summoned by the king, the blind prophet
 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Tiresias at first refuses to speak, but finally
accuses Oedipus himself of killing Laius. — Oedipus is actually the son of Laius and
Oedipus mocks and rejects the prophet angrily, Jocasta.
ordering him to leave, but not before Tiresias
And so, despite his precautions, the
hints darkly of an incestuous marriage and a
prophecy that Oedipus dreaded has actually come
future of blindness, infamy, and wandering.
true. Realizing that he has killed his father and
Oedipus attempts to gain advice from married his mother, Oedipus is agonized by his
Jocasta, the queen; she encourages him to ignore fate.
prophecies, explaining that a prophet once told her
Rushing into the palace, Oedipus finds
that Laius, her husband, would die at the hands of
that the queen has killed herself. Tortured,
their son. According to Jocasta, the prophecy did
frenzied, Oedipus takes the pins from her gown
not come true because the baby died, abandoned,
and rakes out his eyes, so that he can no longer
and Laius himself was killed by a band of robbers
look upon the misery he has caused. Now blinded
at a crossroads.
and disgraced, Oedipus begs Creon to kill him,
Oedipus becomes distressed by Jocasta's but as the play concludes, he quietly submits to
remarks because just before he came to Thebes he Creon's leadership, and humbly awaits the oracle
killed a man who resembled Laius at a crossroads. that will determine whether he will stay in Thebes
To learn the truth, Oedipus sends for the only or be cast out forever.
living witness to the murder, a shepherd.
Another worry haunts Oedipus. As a
FARCE
young man, he learned from an oracle that he was
fated to kill his father and marry his mother. Fear - exaggerated or absurd forms of comedy.
of the prophecy drove him from his home in - a nonsensical genre of drama in which
Corinth and brought him ultimately to Thebes. characters intentionally overact and engage in
Again, Jocasta advises him not to worry about slapstick or physical humor
prophecies.
Examples:
Oedipus finds out from a messenger that
Polybus, king of Corinth, Oedipus' father, has  Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
died of old age. Jocasta rejoices — surely this is  Airplane!, written by Jim Abrahams.
proof that the prophecy Oedipus heard is
WAITING FOR GODOT (FARCE) BY
worthless. Still, Oedipus worries about fulfilling
the prophecy with his mother, Merope, a concern SAMUEL BECKETT
Jocasta dismisses. THEME: The Human Condition, Absurdism And
Overhearing, the messenger offers what Nihilism, And Friendship
he believes will be cheering news. Polybus and CHARACTERS:
Merope are not Oedipus' real parents. In fact,
the messenger himself gave Oedipus to the royal  Vladimir - One of the two main characters of
couple when a shepherd offered him an the play; Estragon calls him Didi, and the boy
abandoned baby from the house of Laius. addresses him as Mr. Albert; The more
responsible and mature of the two main
Oedipus becomes determined to track characters.
down the shepherd and learn the truth of his  Estragon - The second of the two main
birth. Suddenly terrified, Jocasta begs him to characters. Vladimir calls him Gogo. He
stop, and then runs off to the palace, wild with seems weak and helpless, always looking for
grief. Vladimir's protection. He also has a poor
Confident that the worst he can hear is a tale of his memory, as Vladimir has to remind him in the
lowly birth, Oedipus eagerly awaits the second act of the events that happened the
shepherd. At first the shepherd refuses to speak, previous night.
but under threat of death he tells what he knows  Pozzo - He passes by the spot where Vladimir
and Estragon are waiting and provides a
 diversion. In the second act, he is blind and MELODRAMA
does not remember meeting Vladimir and
- Sometimes called TEARJERKERS
Estragon the night before.
- exaggerated form of drama
 Lucky - Pozzo's slave, who carries Pozzo's
bags and stool. In Act I, he entertains by - depict classic one-dimensional
dancing and thinking. However, in Act II, he is characters, such as heroes, heroines, and
dumb. villains dealing with sensational, romantic, and
 Boy - He appears at the end of each act to often perilous situations
inform Vladimir that Godot will not be
coming that night. In the second act, he insists - Examples:
that he was not there the previous night.  The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee
 Godot - The man for whom Vladimir and Williams
Estragon wait unendingly. Godot never  Gone With the Wind, based on Margaret
appears in the play. His name and character Mitchell’s novel
are often thought to refer to God. THE GLASS MENAGERIE
SUMMARY (MELODRAMA) BY TENNESSEE
Two men, Vladimir and Estragon, meet WILLIAMS
near a tree. They converse on various topics and THEME : Gender Roles, Escapism, Familial
reveal that they are waiting there for a man named Responsibility, And Unfulfilled Desire.
Godot. While they wait, two other men enter.
Pozzo is on his way to the market to sell his slave, CHARACTERS:
Lucky. He pauses for a while to converse with  Amanda Wingfield - Laura and Tom’s mother.
Vladimir and Estragon. Lucky entertains them A proud, vivacious woman, Amanda clings
by dancing and thinking, and Pozzo and Lucky fervently to memories of a vanished, genteel
leave. past. She is simultaneously admirable,
After Pozzo and Lucky leave, a boy charming, pitiable, and laughable.
enters and tells Vladimir that he is a messenger  Laura Wingfield - Amanda’s daughter and
from Godot. He tells Vladimir that Godot will Tom’s older sister. Laura has a bad leg, on
not be coming tonight, but that he will surely which she has to wear a brace, and walks with
come tomorrow. Vladimir asks him some a limp. Twenty-three years old and painfully
questions about Godot and the boy departs. After shy, she has largely withdrawn from the
his departure, Vladimir and Estragon decide to outside world and devotes herself to old
leave, but they do not move as the curtain falls. records and her collection of glass figurines.
 Tom Wingfield - Amanda’s son and Laura’s
The next night, Vladimir and Estragon
younger brother. An aspiring poet, Tom works
again meet near the tree to wait for Godot. Lucky
at a shoe warehouse to support the family. He
and Pozzo enter again, but this time Pozzo is
is frustrated by the numbing routine of his job
blind and Lucky is dumb. Pozzo does not
and escapes from it through movies, literature,
remember meeting the two men the night before.
and alcohol.
They leave and Vladimir and Estragon continue
 Jim O’Connor - An old acquaintance of Tom
to wait.
and Laura. Jim was a popular athlete in high
Shortly after, the boy enters and once school and is now a shipping clerk at the shoe
again tells Vladimir that Godot will not be warehouse in which Tom works. He is
coming. He insists that he did not speak to unwaveringly devoted to goals of professional
Vladimir yesterday. After he leaves, Estragon achievement and ideals of personal success.
and Vladimir decide to leave, but again they do  Mr. Wingfield - Amanda’s husband and Laura
not move as the curtain falls, ending the play. and Tom’s father. Mr. Wingfield was a
handsome man who worked for a telephone
company. He abandoned his family years
 before the action of the play and never appears the door, on Amanda’s orders, and then quickly
onstage. His picture, however, is prominently disappears, leaving Tom and Jim alone. Tom
displayed in the Wingfields’ living room. confides to Jim that he has used the money for his
family’s electric bill to join the merchant marine
OVERVIEW
and plans to leave his job and family in search of
The Glass Menagerie is a memory play, adventure. Laura refuses to eat dinner with the
and its action is drawn from the memories of the others, feigning illness. Amanda, wearing an
narrator, Tom Wingfield. Tom is a character in ostentatious dress from her glamorous youth, talks
the play, which is set in St. Louis in 1937. He is an vivaciously with Jim throughout the meal.
aspiring poet who toils in a shoe warehouse to
As dinner is ending, the lights go out as a
support his mother, Amanda, and sister, Laura. Mr.
consequence of the unpaid electric bill. The
Wingfield, Tom and Laura’s father, ran off years
characters light candles, and Amanda encourages
ago and, except for one postcard, has not been
Jim to entertain Laura in the living room while
heard from since.
she and Tom clean up. Laura is at first paralyzed
SUMMARY by Jim’s presence, but his warm and open
behavior soon draws her out of her shell. She
Amanda, originally from a genteel confesses that she knew and liked him in high
Southern family, regales her children frequently school but was too shy to approach him. They
with tales of her idyllic youth and the scores of continue talking, and Laura reminds him of the
suitors who once pursued her. She is disappointed nickname he had given her: “Blue Roses,” an
that Laura, who wears a brace on her leg and is accidental corruption of pleurosis, an illness
painfully shy, does not attract any gentlemen Laura had in high school. He reproaches her for
callers. She enrolls Laura in a business college, her shyness and low self-esteem but praises her
hoping that she will make her own and the uniqueness. Laura then ventures to show him her
family’s fortune through a business career. Weeks favorite glass animal, a unicorn. Jim dances with
later, however, Amanda discovers that Laura’s her, but in the process, he accidentally knocks
crippling shyness has led her to drop out of the over the unicorn, breaking off its horn. Laura is
class secretly and spend her days wandering the forgiving, noting that now the unicorn is a normal
city alone. Amanda then decides that Laura’s last horse. Jim then kisses her, but he quickly draws
hope must lie in marriage and begins selling back and apologizes, explaining that he was
magazine subscriptions to earn the extra money carried away by the moment and that he actually
she believes will help to attract suitors for Laura. has a serious girlfriend. Resigned, Laura offers
Meanwhile, Tom, who loathes his warehouse job, him the broken unicorn as a souvenir.
finds escape in liquor, movies, and literature,
much to his mother’s chagrin. During one of the Amanda enters the living room, full of
frequent arguments between mother and son, Tom good cheer. Jim hastily explains that he must
accidentally breaks several of the glass animal leave because of an appointment with his fiancée.
figurines that are Laura’s most prized Amanda sees him off warmly but, after he is
possessions. gone, turns on Tom, who had not known that Jim
was engaged. Amanda accuses Tom of being an
Amanda and Tom discuss Laura’s inattentive, selfish dreamer and then throws
prospects, and Amanda asks Tom to keep an eye herself into comforting Laura. From the fire
out for potential suitors at the warehouse. Tom escape outside of their apartment, Tom watches
selects Jim O’Connor, a casual friend, and the two women and explains that, not long after
invites him to dinner. Amanda quizzes Tom about Jim’s visit, he gets fired from his job and leaves
Jim and is delighted to learn that he is a driven Amanda and Laura behind. Years later, though
young man with his mind set on career he travels far, he finds that he is unable to leave
advancement. She prepares an elaborate dinner behind guilty memories of Laura
and insists that Laura wear a new dress. At the
last minute, Laura learns the name of her caller;
as it turns out, she had a devastating crush on Jim
OPERA
in high school. When Jim arrives, Laura answers
- exaggerated or absurd forms of comedy. writes two love letters and instructs his partners to
- a nonsensical genre of drama in which deliver them, but they refuse, proclaiming that it is
characters intentionally overact and engage in not honorable to do such a thing. Hearing their
slapstick or physical humor irony, Falstaff kicks them out of the inn and finds
a page to deliver the letters instead.
Examples:
In the garden outside of Alice Ford's
 The decidedly tragic La Bohème, by home, she and her daughter, Nannetta, are
Giacomo Puccini exchanging stories with Meg Page and Dame
 Falstaff, by Giuseppe Verdi Quickly. It isn't long before Alice and Meg
discover that they have been sent identical love
FALSTAFF (OPERA), BY GIUSEPPE
letters. The four women decide to teach Falstaff a
VERDI lesson and design a plan to punish him. Bardolfo
CHARACTERS: and Pistola have told Mr. Ford, Alice's husband,
of Falstaff's intentions. As Mr. Ford, Bardolfo,
 Falstaff — a knight (bass-baritone) Pistola, and Fenton (an employee of Mr. Ford)
 Alice Ford — wealthy wife of Windsor approach the garden, the four women move inside
(soprano) to further discuss their plans. However, Nannetta
 Ford — her husband (baritone) stays behind for a while longer to steal a kiss from
 Meg Page — wealthy wife of Windsor Fenton. The women have decided that they will
(mezzo-soprano) set up a secret rendezvous between Alice and
 Mistress Quickly (mezzo-soprano) Falstaff, while the men decide that Bardolfo and
 Nannetta — Alice’s daughter, in love with Pistola will introduce Mr. Ford to Falstaff under
Fenton (soprano) a different name.
 Fenton — Alice’s suitor (tenor) Falstaff, ACT 2
 Dr Caius — older, intended for Nannetta
(tenor) Back in the Garter Inn, Bardolfo and
Pistola (secretly employed by Mr. Ford), beg for
SETTING: Falstaff's forgiveness. They announce the arrival
takes place in Windsor, England, at the end of the of Dame Quickly. She tells Falstaff that the two
14th century women have accepted his letters with neither of
them knowing he had sent it to both women.
OVERVIEW Quickly tells him that Alice, in fact, has arranged
The plot revolves around the thwarted, a meeting between 2 and 3 o'clock that very day.
sometimes farcical, efforts of the fat knight Sir Ecstatic, Falstaff begins to clean himself up. It
John Falstaff to seduce two married women to isn't long after that Bardolfo and Pistola
gain access to their husbands' wealth. introduce a disguised Mr. Ford to Falstaff. He
tells Falstaff that he has a burning desire for
Falstaff, ACT 1 Alice, but Falstaff states that he has already won
Sir John Falstaff, an old fat knight from her over and she arranged a meeting with him
Windsor, sits in the Garter Inn with his later that day. Mr. Ford, becomes furious. He is
"partner's in crime," Bardolfo and Pistola. As unaware of his wife's plan, and believes her to be
they enjoy their drinks, Dr. Caius interrupts the cheating on him. Both men leave the inn.
men and accuses Falstaff of breaking into and Dame Quickly arrives in Alice's room and
robbing his house. Falstaff is able to redirect Dr. tells Alice, Meg, and Nannetta of Falstaff's
Caius' anger and accusations and Dr. Caius soon reaction. Though Nannetta seems uninterested,
leaves. Falstaff scolds Bardolfo and Pistola for the other three women have a laugh. Nannetta has
being inept thieves. He soon develops another learned that her father, Mr. Ford, has given her
scheme to acquire money - he will woo two away to Dr. Caius for marriage. The other women
wealthy matrons (Alice Ford and Meg Page) and assure her that will never happen. All the women,
take advantage of their husbands' wealth. He except for Alice, hide when Falstaff is heard
approaching. As she sits in her chair playing the over, he tells them it was well deserved. Mr. Ford
lute, Falstaff begins recounting his past to her, then announces that they will end the day with a
attempting to win over her heart. Then Dame wedding. A second couple also asks to be married.
Quickly suddenly announces Meg's arrival and Mr. Ford calls upon Dr. Caius and the Fairy
Falstaff jumps behind a screen to hide. Meg has Queen and the second couple. He marries both
learned that Mr. Ford is on his way over and that couples before realizing that Bardolfo has
he is beyond mad. The women then hide Falstaff changed into the Fairy Queen costume and the
inside a hamper full of dirty laundry. Mr. Ford second couple was Fenton and Nannetta. Happy
enters the house with Fenton, Bardolfo, and with the outcome of events, and knowing that he
Pistola. As the men search the house, Fenton and was not the only one tricked, Falstaff proclaims
Nannetta sneak behind the screen. Mr. Ford the world is nothing more than a jest and everyone
hears kissing from behind the screen. Thinking it shares a good hearty laugh.
is Falstaff, he discovers it is his daughter and
Fenton. He throws Fenton out of the house and
continues searching for Falstaff. The women, DOCUDRAMA
worried that he will find Falstaff, especially when
Falstaff starts audibly complaining of the heat, - A relatively new genre
throw the hamper out of the window and Falstaff - dramatic portrayals of historic events or non-
is able to escape. fictional situations
- More often presented in movies and
Falstaff, ACT 3 television than in live theater
Sulking in his misfortunes, Falstaff is Difference Between Documentary And
about to go into the inn to drown his sorrows with Docudrama
wine and beer. Dame Quickly arrives and tells
him that Alice still loves him and would like to DOCUMENTARY
arrange another meeting at midnight. She shows  Non-fiction based on true historical,
him a note from Alice to prove she is telling the scientific and geographical events.
truth. Falstaff's face lights up once more. Dame
Quickly tells him that the meeting will take place  Every action or event in the movie in
in Windsor Park, even though it is often said that nothing but the reenacting of what has
the park becomes haunted at midnight, and that happened
Alice has requested him to dress as the Black DOCUDRAMA
Hunter. Fenton and the other women plan to
dress up as spirits later that night to frighten  Fiction
Falstaff senseless. Mr. Ford promises to wed Dr.
 These are movies in which past events that
Caius and Nannetta that night and is told how he
have happened are taken as a content in the
can recognize her in costume. Dame Quickly
movie and then edited as per wish.
overhears their plan.
 Events are not true and content is partly
Later that night in the moonlit park,
man-made and half is true
Fenton sings of his love for Nannetta, which she
joins in. The women give Fenton a monk costume
and tell him that it will spoil Mr. Ford's and Dr.
Examples:
Caius' plan. They quickly hide when Falstaff
enters wearing his antlered, Black Hunter  Apollo 13 and 12 Years a Slave, based
costume. He proceeds to address Alice when Meg on the autobiography written by Solomon
runs in shouting that demons are moving quickly Northup.
and are about to enter the park. Nannetta, dressed  The Blind Side (2009) - Life of Michael
as the Fairy Queen orders the spirits to torment Oher, an NFL Player
Falstaff. The spirits surround Falstaff and he
begs for mercy. Moments later, he recognizes one THE BLIND SIDE (2009)
of his tormentors as Bardolfo. When the joke is (DOCUDRAMA)
CHARACTERS:
 Michael Oher
 Leigh Anne Tuohy
 Sean Tuohy
 SJ Tuohy
 Collins Tuohy
 Tony Henderson
 Steven Henderson
 Hugh Freeze
 "Coach O"
 Miss Sue
 Bill Walsh
 John Ayers
 Jonathan Ogden

OVERVIEW
Plot: Set in 2003, seventeen year old
Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) grew up in the
projects in Memphis, Tennessee living in foster
care, no longer living with his drug addicted
mother (Adriane Lenox) and runs away to sleep
wherever else he can find.