All The Great Book Essay

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A Review of the Play All the Great Books (Abridged) Do you frequently watch live plays? Well, if you are a comic lover Shakespeare's series of plays will serve you right. The play All the Great Books (Abridged) is a collection of shake spear’s play which is performed in less than 2 hours. It was produced by Broadway play Publication Inc. Under the help of a director called Geoff Wilson. And three other characters in an arena type of stage. It consists of thirty seven Shakespeare plays which are done in a span of two hours. The items that play an important role in the emphasizing the theme of the poem is the costumes and the lighting. The play is mostly made of improvised a part that is the characters use a variety of techniques and games…show more content…
The designing of the wagon placed into consideration the large number of different Shakespeare plays. Whereas the costume design took t the look of Elizabethan theme. Most of them were represented by single items for instance a wig, skirt and a hart. Female characters were dressed into costumes with a pink theme attached with a heart motifs and a piece of rose. The actor who took a serious role like in Hamlet most of their costumes were black in color engraved with a cod-piece skull. The play is a comedy in nature, it integrates all parodies from Shakespeare’s play and sonnets, and it consists of two acts. Characters in the play tend to be full of energy in that they run across the stage and leave the spectators with questions on how they will handle the next play. The use of attractive costumes makes the play more interesting, at the start of the play a different version of Romeo and Juliet later it is followed by a parody of Titus Andronicus, it is acted as a cooking show. The one that follows is Othello which is in a form of a rap song, later a humorous football game comes by. It summarizes the ancient history of the following kings; King John, Richard II and III lastly Henry IV and many others. The football game contains the storyline on how each king ascended to power and their downfall from leadership. The most interesting and somehow confusing part is when the characters forget to perform the Hamlet at the end of the first

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