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Era

Drama Title

Author

Quotes

Love Themes

Tragedy- 16th
century1500’s

Othello

William
Shakespeare

“An old black
yam is tupping
your white
yew”

Racetransgressive

“Loved for the
dangers he
had passed”
and he loved
“that she did
pity them
...


Desdemona’s
youth – first
love- fails to
recognise what
reality is really
like

“I am nothing
but to please
his fantasy”

16th Century
gender roles

“Men are but
stomachs,
they eat us up
and belch us
out”

16th century
gender roles
and inequality
of marriage

“It is duty I
obey you but
not now”
“If music be
the food of
love play on,
give me
excess of it

...


Jacobean
tragedies
...


Reality of love
(fancy) and the
imagination
...

Males often
characters
but it is the
female
characters
that
ultimately are
seen as hero
...


Comedy

Additional
Notes
Took
inspiration
from Greek
tragedy,
Aristotle ‘fall
is caused by
a fatal flaw in
his character’

lovers at a
moment’s
notice,
imagination
more powerful
Restoration
Comedy
Victorian

The
importance
of being
Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Lady Bracknell
calls on Lady
Harbury “looks
quite twenty
years
younger
...

People always
seem to think
they are
improper’ –
social class
“being the
eldest son,
you were
naturally
christened
after your
father”

19th Century

A Doll’s
House

Henrik Ibsen

“Divorces are
made in
heaven”
“most sacred
duty”
‘Passed from
father’s hands’
to Torvald’s
...


After the
French
revolution the
English
aristocracy
was afraid of
the same thing
happening at
home
...

AlgernonUpper class
marriages

Religion,
oppression of
women
Under the
control of a
man
Like above
Pet namespatronising

Subject
matter of
restoration
comedy is the
presentation
of society and
classes
...

Money and
marriage
...


Ibsen
combines
realism with
symbolism in
his critiques
of society and
of
relationships
between men
and women
...

When the
monarchy
was restored
under
Charles II in
1660,
playwrights
turned away
from
comedies
and
tragedies,
producing
plays much
more related
to attitudes
towards love,
sex and
marriage
...


‘almost like
being a man’
Dr
...

Emma: I
thought of you
the other day
...
Why?

1979

Bent

Martin
Sherman
...
I ask
about your
husband, you
ask about my
wife
...


Workingreliant upon
husbands
Patriarchy on
unhappy
marriages
Marriages not
built on
equality or
trust
...


Speech
naturalistic,
tentative,
repetitive, full
of gaps and
hesitations
...


Concerned
with English
in Ireland
Political
theme- how
people are
divided by
language,
foreign
power on
native people
Love
significant
strand but
not primary
focus
...

Affair, meeting
with past
lovers
...

Max refuses to
acknowledge
his own

Play set in
1930’s
Germany
...

I think…
(silence) I
think I love
you
...

(He puts
Horst’s jacket
on)- Pink
triangle
...
It
grows brighter
and brighter
until the light
costumes the
stage and
blinds the
audience)
1955

A View From
The Bridge

Arthur Miller

“His eyes were
like tunnels
...

Relationship
develops
between
them
...

Max accepts
his own
identity and
love for Horst
when having
to dispose of
his body
...

End scene
...

Reflects the
play’s time of
composition
by focusing
on the
personal and
political
choices which
people have
to make when
sexual
identity and
human
emotions are
at stake
...


What it means
to love
another
human being
Love and
Death
...

Incest
...

Unconscious
passion to his
conscious self
...


Condemn the
McCarthy
trialsimportance of
reputation
and naming
names

movement of
the 1970’s
...

teach me”

Beatrice views
sex as key role
of a wife
...




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