Geoffrey Owens
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I graduated, cum laude, in English and Theater Studies from Yale in 1983. Since then, I have been active as an actor ("The Cosby Show"; film "Salomaybe" with Al Pacino), director (Off-Off B'way and regional theater) and teacher (Yale, HB Studio, FSU Asolo Conservatory, The Dwight School).
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Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
The main language difference between the first two scenes of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is that the first is written in verse and the second in prose. Scene 1 contains this speech of... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
The "dramatic irony" is found in the reversal of roles between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In the beginning of Macbeth, she is the leader and he the follower. In act I, scene 5, she says to her... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Before the line "And they have conspired together" (II,5,l.23), Launcelot (unaware of his malapropism, by the way), says to Shylock, "My young master doth expect your reproach" (ll.20,21). ... -
Answered a Question in American Buffalo
David Mamet's play American Buffalo can be said to be a character study of three different types of men. The personalities of Teach, Don and Bobby are revealed under the pressure of Don's confined... -
Answered a Question in The Taming of the Shrew
When Petruchio and Katherine encounter the traveling Vincentio (Act IV, Scene 5), Petruchio refers to the elderly man as a "gentlewoman" (l. 33) and asks his wife to greet the "fair lovely maid"...