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In eighteen pages this paper discusses how Shakespeare's puns evoke irony, humor, and eroticism in The Taming of the Shrew, As You...

no matter how precious we may believe ours to actually be. Some of Allens films are more consistently filled with the idea of l...

In five pages unreality is the focus of this paper on the comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. There is one s...

In four pages this paper examines A Midsummer Night's Dream as it represents one of the most enduring epiphanies of William Shakes...

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...

famine as being the direct manifestation of her conflict with Oberon) and the madness itself is generated by the very human desire...

toying with his free will it seems. But, for the most part Theseus, is a noble and heroic duke who loves Hippolyta in the real sen...

even death. Rather than comply, Hermia elopes with Lysander, fleeing into the woods. Shakespeare emphasizes the enormous consequen...

that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus unde...

tend to overlook all the rest" (Chandler, 2000). If we didnt sort things out in this way, we would be overwhelmed with stimuli (Ch...

logic. The play consists of a quartet of couples - secondary characters King Oberon and Queen Titania, and Theseus and Hippolyta;...

for fear Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there" (Shakespeare II i). This is a very magical surreal image, but also a very fun ...

the juxtaposition of the two worlds: that of humanity and that of the fairies. They exist side by side by do not interact; in fact...

(Foakes 23). Until this time, many directors seem to see the play as a literal fairy tale for children and staged it as such; Broo...

popular comedy. The antics of Bottom and his friends, the eerie majesty of the fairies, and the mixed up relationships among the y...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The theme of love is examined through looking at the f...

This essay pertains to William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Ben Jonson's "Every Man in His Humor," and how each p...

In this we are set up with a very quiet and harmless love that is only waiting for consummation. It is a pleasant little scene tha...

Athens and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Although the setting is Athens, Shakespeare originally staged the production at the Globe ...

trained to the arts of war and government, and not toward the finer sensibilities . Therefore, Theseus supports Egeus in forcing h...

her standards and lie to her father. She is seen, therefor, as the evil daughter, not the righteous daughter she truly is: "Lears ...

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

the figure of Christ. It must be remembered, also, in this context, that one of the most important principles of Judaism is the co...

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

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

eye"(Shakespeare Act 1, sc. 1, line 140). Thus, this first criteria and/or convention has been met. Hermia wants Lysander, bu...

and helps to keep the play from floating off into fairyland entirely. Likewise, when Egeus says that his daughter Hermia will ei...

This paper examines these two classic literary works in relation to the significance of magic in each. This five page paper has no...

The use of puns are discussed in this report consisting of five pages and also considered for comparative purposes are Tragedy of ...

and Oberon are the sovereign spirits of the woods and in their own right are exotic royalty. Yet again, the issue of appearances ...