Man For All Seasons
The Common Man in the play A Man for All Seasons has a very important role. He is the link between the audience and the play itself. His purpose is to keep the audience from becoming too emotionally involved in the play, to destroy the idea of theatrical illusion, and to make the audience able to identify with him by portraying many different common characters. The Common Man introduces, and, in one ending, concludes the play, which makes him an important character. The Common Man wears normal commoners' clothes so that the audience can immediately identify with him. He represents common sense and morals, and provides the audience with humour, motivation, perspective, and irony (http://home.pacific.net.au/ ~greg.hub/commonman.html, PG. 3) . Because of this the Common Man is similar in purpose to the Chorus in ancient Greek drama: to review the action, to explore the play and its consequences, and to relate the action to everyday life for the audience. (http://home.pacific. net.au/~greg.hub/commonman.html, PG. 2) A Man For All Seasons begins with the Common Man standing in the middle of the stage holding and changing his costumes right in front of the audience. He then continues to question his own costumes, saying,
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Approximate Word count = 1574
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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