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Hamlet - An Existential Reading

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Hamlet. Using textual evidence, an existential reading of the play's themes is give...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

Courtroom Role of Law Enforcement Officers

subpoenaed to testify during this trial and his professional, well-documented testimony was instrumental in securing the convictio...

Hamlet/The Ruse of Insanity

ghost is the specter of his father, condemned to suffer "sulphurous and tormenting flames" (I.v.7) because he died without having ...

Zachary Taylor v Lewis Cass

was what Tatalovich (2010) calls a "blank slate" candidate, a candidate that could win the hearts of the electorate because he was...

Theater of Pain - Hedda Gabler and Equus

is a social climber; and she has no respect for her husband or his scholarship, finding it and him both incredibly boring. She is ...

Issues in African History

peoples, while accepting these belief systems, sought to integrate them into their existent cultures, rather than overthrowing the...

Religion in Two Plays: “The Darker Face of the Earth” and “Oedipus Rex”

of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...

A Theatrical Depiction of Apartheid Africa

"Master Harold and the Boys" was first performed at Yale Repertory Theatre on March 12, 1982. Set in...

A Theatrical Depiction of Apartheid Africa

"Master Harold and the Boys" was first performed at Yale Repertory Theatre on March 12, 1982. Set in 1950 Apartheid South...

Romeo and Juliet, a Play of Extremes

film. It tells us where we are and when; in the case of Shakespeares tragedy of young love, were in Verona, Italy, in the 1500s. T...

Ancient Greek Theatre, Sophrosyne and Hubris

According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...

Counseling Process and the Importance of Culture and Cultural Identity

next was through storytelling. In fact, storytelling has become known as one of the primary ways that history has been taught thr...

Social Hierarchy and Imperialism

process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...

European Perspectives and Subhuman Views of Caliban in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

took the time to teach him a "proper" language, and not the "gabble" that he spoke when she and her father first arrived. Caliba...

Oliver Twist and the Comedic Voice

his fathers will by forcing his half-brother Oliver into crime" (Baxter). With this in mind we see that the story is truly dark...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis and Staging

The scene opens with Menelaus and the Attendant coming on stage. The Attendant sees Agamemnon approaching and says to Menelaus, "M...

Capitalism Development and Towns

and impulse plays a part in this, but it is capitalism that drives this phenomenon. This leads to a very compelling question, whic...

Maturity in the Relatoinship of Romeo and Juliet

is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...

Sociological Contributions of Herbert Spencer

In three pages this essay discusses Spencer's sociological contributions and examines the roles played by morality and war in part...

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov #2

In an essay consisting of five pages Chekhov's and Stanislavsky's views of the play are compared with the argument being that acco...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Character of Ophelia

defines her character. She is, in essence, a human mirror, used to reflect the desires of others (Dane gdane.html). Her inabilit...

Adolescent Suicide and Romeo and Juliet

This research paper analyzes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compares its narratives to instances of adolescent suicide and fam...

The Many Forms of The Seventh Seal

The writer examines the development of Ingmar Bergman's classic movie The Seventh Seal, tracing it from a series of acting exercis...

'Queen Mab' Speech of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes this speech and how it becomes as much uncontrollable violence as sparked by the play's lovers. ...

Acting and Directorial Force in the Play Reverend Billy

In five pages this paper discusses how the play's content is overshadowed by its acting and directing. There are no sources liste...

Shakespeare's Hamlet Act II, Scene II

The scene in which Hamlet meets with the Players and the reaction to these Players are the focus of this paper consisting of five ...

Female Characters in Coriolanus and Macbeth by William Shakespeare

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

Caliban's Treatment by Prospero in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

the most inept such plots in theater-but we can see it as his attempt to revenge himself upon the man who stole his island from hi...