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Determining Statistical Tests

Different types of tests may be used for differing purposes and with different types of data. This paper looks at how univariate ...

Feminist View of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Character of Puck as Protagonist

Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...

Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Visit

of money and they will all essentially be wealthy. In the end the townspeople kill this man so they will receive the money....

17th and 18th Century Censorship of the English Stage and Jeremy Collier's Pamphlet, 'A Short View on Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage'

the name of Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) embarked upon his own personal crusade to censor these works on religious grounds. The pub...

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Supernatural

supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...

Ben Jonson and His Influence

(Jokinen). He died on August 6, 1637. It has been noted that Jonsons best work is characterized by his "wide and penetrating ob...

Mary Tyler Moore Show & Feminist Theory

photogenic, but air-headed newscaster. Additional cast members were Valerie Harper, as Marys best friend Rhoda; Cloris Leachman, n...

Aspects of "Tartuffe"

right opposite my place, / And drew the eyes of all the congregation, / To watch the fervour of his prayers to heaven; / With deep...

Shakespeare/Comedy of Errors & Imagery

"teach" him "how to think and speak" (3.2.35) and "create" him new" (3.2.41), which is a reversal of the Elizabethan gender stereo...

Tragic and Comic Aspects of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines the tragedy and comedy elements that each exist in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespea...

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

In five pages this paper argues that this comedy by Aristophanes is an example of feminism with its strong and intelligent female ...

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and the Character of Malvolio

The steward is immediately threatened by anyone who is perceived as funnier or more intelligent than he. Olivia is the only perso...

Shakespeare's Tempest/Reflections on His World

and now Prospero sees the opportunity to obtain justice. He charms Miranda into a deep sleep and summons the sprite Ariel, who is ...

"What About Bob?"

good fit that does not easily occur, if indeed it occurs at all. For his part, Dr. Marvin is only a caricature of...

Homosexuality and Friendships in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

homoerotic desire" (114). Olivia and Maria embody this type of alliance. Maria is serving Olivia, literally and figuratively spe...

Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...

Dreams, Magic, and the Difficulty of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

indicates that "The theme of loves difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance-that is, romantic situati...

Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Tartuffe by Moliere the Uses of Humor

terms to refer to exaggeration and understatement within the realm of comedy. As far as I can determine, both Moliere and Aristoph...

David Ives' One Act Play Sure Thing

such as Don Quixote and his tilting of Windmills(Definitions). In this story, however, two people are simply having a drink of cof...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

The History of Cinematic Comedy

parodies American consumer culture as evidenced by the hilarious scene when grilled cheese sandwiches and coleslaw are ordered for...

William Shakespeare's Comic Take on Marriage

of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...

Character Noting in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

Two Different Viewpoints on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, are introduced as well as members of an amateur acting troupe who are rehearsing the p...

Family Reality TV The Cosby Show and The Brady Bunch?

get together, there was the typical conflict one would expect from step-siblings who are still wary of one another, but who know t...

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Portrayal of Women

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

Literary Nature of Comedy

this suggests, comedy provides numerous benefits. When the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean lay on his deathbed, it is reput...

Still Photo from the Early Comedy Mulligan's Guard March

in the picture clearly represent the intended slovenly guards. First of all we note that the two men, Harrigan and Hart, "met the ...