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'The Play's the Thing': Analyzing Six Passages from William Shakespeare's Plays

Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V, Scene ii), As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii), Richard III (Act I, Scene ii), The...

Character Studies: Dr. Faustus, Macbeth

This essay discusses the characterization of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," identifying ...

Shakespeare and Jonson and Elizabethan Clowns

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...

Eating Disorders

many ways and through controlling their bodies, even to death, they have some control over their own destiny. People who have eati...

Virtually Reality Genre; Star Trek's Next-Generation Episode Ship In A Bottle As A Forerunner Of Virtual Reality In The Matrix And The Thirteenth Floor

as a commercially viable and attractive genre by its continued existence and evolution. In all three of the production to ...

Scripted Television is an Art Form

many are scripted. There is a sameness in terms of quality in what the individual can expect. There is entertainment value in both...

Outside Looking In

he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...

Hiroshima by John Berger and Rhetoric

This does not, however, imply that Berger is attempting to spark a superficial or sentimental response: despite the...

Motivation and Money in the Works of Plautus and William Shakespeare

(Aristotle). According to Aristotle, comedy involves the imitation of men who are less than average. Furthermore, Aristotle indica...

The Concept of the “Outsider” in “Othello” and “The Rover”

is in seeing pompous buffoons made fools of, and lovers brought together. However, Aphra Behns play, though a comedy, also deals...

Othello

claiming that not only is Othello an outsider but akin to the devil, or an animal. It is not that he is just from a different coun...

Othello Themes

really betrayed Othello. Iago is determined to manipulate Othello to his own desires, which are many. Throughout the play the re...

The Poet’s Use of Shakespeare’s Themes in the Sonnets

but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...

Protagonists and Antagonists Analysis in King Henry IV, Part I and Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

In five pages the antagonists and protagonists from these respective plays are examined in a comparative analysis with references ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and Customs of Elizabethan Love and Marriage

In five pages this paper examines how Shakespeare portrays the love and marriage customs of his Elizabethan era within the context...

The Use of Critical Sources in Understanding Works of Shakespeare

in joining such a group. By discussing books and plays with peers, an individual can hear other opinions on subject matter that h...

Overview of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

In nine pages this Shakespeare comedy is analyzed in terms of its meaning, structure, theme, plot, and colloquial prose usage. Se...

Character Comparisons in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing II

becomes more and more obvious. Their words, which appear to be that demonstrating disdain, are words spouted by lovers who are con...

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and Social Class

her father until an outsider convinces them that she did not break the rules or cross the boundaries of her social class....

The Directors' Vision of Three Plays

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

Hamlet's Comedy Provides Relief

remark that Laertes and Ophelia had been discussing Hamlet, Polonius starts into a long dissertation on Ophelias lack of experienc...

Faulkner's Comedy

of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...

Oedipus Rex and Othello Compared “Oedipus Rex”

to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...

King Lear and Twelfth Night--A Comparison of the Two Plays

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...

Depression Humor

Comedy was even more important during the Great Depression than at most other times in history, when entertainment was most people...

Comedy Ballet Le Bougeois Gentilhomme by Moliere

outburst which has done much to mould French genius of more recent times. The latter part of the century, which has been called t...

British Film Genre Classifications of Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and East and Lock

both can be considered comedic films. Definition of film comedy Although East is East is a slice of life film that can...

Roman Comedy and Greek Old Comedy Compared

that is skilled in hearing what Thasos, a proud soldier enjoys hearing. Phaedria has a slave, Parmeno. Parmeno is supposed to de...

Seventeenth Century Comedy

Moliere and Restoration theatre are two of the main examples of comedy in the 17th century. This paper examines what purpose comed...

Jane Austen and Social Criticism

Then, there is the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. They are bent on being the perfect family in that the father deals wi...