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a boy. Olivia, on the other hand, is given to extravagant gestures that are designed to emphasize the degree of her grief. She pro...

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

pining away because of his unrequited love for Olivia, who also has a potential suitor in Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Olivia wants no m...

the play, and enable him to comment on the actions and feelings of his fellow characters with some distance. He is not fully inte...

through his demonstration of the comedic emptiness of the emotions of the characters in the play. Feste is a stage clown. With e...

In five pages this paper discusses the enigma that is Malvolio and his Lord of Misrule representation. There are 2 sources cited ...

but around him revolve some of the most significant issues of this extremely complex play. Feste, whom George Steiner calls "Shak...

In six pages this paper explores how poetic language is used by Shakespeare in conveying psychological realism in these 1601 and 1...

sent to the town of Illyria in which she becomes a servant of Count Orsino which is played by Horace Jackson. Viola causes many p...

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

also survived the wreck to conceal her true nature. Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become T...

his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...

The symmetry or balance represented by these two poems by William Blake is analyzed in a paper consisting of four pages....

In five pages the function and purpose served by Miranda's character in The Tempest by William Shakespeare are analyzed....

of honor. Macbeth is one of Shakespeares darkest and most intriguing plays- a tragedy of ego, obsession, guilt and ambition. Ma...

In twelve pages this paper examines how the theme of homoeroticism manifests itself in the Shakespearean plays Twelfth Night, As Y...

This 9 page paper examines the way in which three different directors approach Shakespeare. It looks at Kenneth Branagh's producti...

Ill follow thee and make a heaven of hell,/ to die upon the hand I love so well" (Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene 1, lines 241-244). W...

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

one author, his "role in this Illyrian comedy is significant because Illyria is a country permeated with the spirit of the Feast o...

go to her, but only if she will profess love for her father to eclipse the love of any other man. Only if she promises not to mar...

most famous lovers. The "merry war" referred to in the title is that which is waged by this pair; as Leonato says, "There is a kin...

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

earnings from his art were meager ("Seven Dutch Masters: Jan Steen"). In the popular imagination, Steen is associated with the i...

an end to Tobys activities. Even Maria has warned Toby that the Lady Olivia is growing impatient with him: "Your cousin, my lady, ...

plays, the audience is also presented with descriptions that conjure androgyny, which was a prevalent idea in the Elizabethan era....

This essay argues that use of disguise and deception leads to both love and suffering In "Twelfth Night." Four pages in length, fi...

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale." The writer asserts that Chaucer's narrative ...

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...

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