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‘The glassworks’ with critical analysis

Abstract

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The Glassworks is a play about people being stuck in patterns. Mikael has decided to take up contact with his parents after not seeing them for five years. He brings his son Daniel with him on a visit to his childhood home over Christmas. During the weekend Mikael is trying to come to terms with his childhood and his father, but it turns out to be more complicated than he expects. He returns home without a reconciliation with his father, but with a better relationship to his son. In my analysis I have looked at different aspects of the writing process. I have studied how one can build the plot based on characters, as well as looked into how naturalism and symbolism can be combined, and what problems arise. I have critically looked at my decisions regarding setting. I analysed how you can work with the room to support actions, as well as decisions about social context, raising the question how you can set a play in Sweden and write it in English.

Degree

thesis:*
Name dc:type.qualificationname
m_ph
Level dc:type.qualificationlevel
m_ph
Grantor dc:publisher.institution
University of Birmingham
Year dc:date.issued
2008

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Waldemarson, Ivar

Subjects

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Identifiers

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OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:etheses.bham.ac.uk:189

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Waldemarson, Ivar. ‘The glassworks’ with critical analysis. m_ph thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/189/2/Decl_IS_Waldemarson08MPhil.jpg