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3 Works on Women's Social Role

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

Act III, Scene 4 of King Lear by William Shakespeare

psychologist points out that Edgar discusses his own case lucidly, while indulging in unlimited incoherence in regards to everythi...

Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

Shakespeare and the Importance of Setting

historical piece in that regard, as are all other Shakespearean plays it would seem. In providing us with this particular time per...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and Theology

with and through broad theological propositions that include the inherent conflict between medieval and Renaissance values (Sisson...

Bard's Personality as Reflected in His Plays

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

Seventeenth Century 'Old English' Literature

observing the "loud mirth in the hall," yet unable to be a part of such fellowship due to no fault of its own, but rather the circ...

Ferdinand and Regan/Goneril

never a bone int" (I.284). Again, the lamprey (a type of eel) and the reference to its bonelessness, is a reference to the penis. ...

Elder Justice and King Lear by William Shakespeare

Unburdend crawl toward death", states King Lear in the opening act. Having decided to step down from the throne, King Lear has pos...

William Shakespeare's 'Romantic Revisions'

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

A Consideration of William Shakespeare's “King Lear”

bent, has produced in him that blindness to human limitations, and that presumptuous self-will" (282). It becomes readily apparen...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and the Royal Court

setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...

Apocalypse and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In seven pages this paper examines how the apocalypse is symbolized in the flawed pagan King Lear, who is the protagonist of Shake...

Romanticism in King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the Romantic qualities that are featured in King Lear, a hundred years before the genre was eve...

Comparing Three Passages of Shakespeare's "King Lear," All Outakes From ACT I (I.i.85-93), (I.iv.106-126), and (I.i.148-159),

This comparison paper involving "King Lear" determines the patterns that arise when the passages are read next to each o...

3 Plays by William Shakespeare and the Conflict Between Parents and Children

In 5 pages this paper examines the Shakespearean plays The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear in a comparative analysis of h...

Analysis of the Fool in in William Shakespeare's King Lear

In four pages this character analysis of the fool character in King Lear makes reference to Shakespeare The Invention of the Huma...

Role of the Gloucester Subplot in King Lear by William Shakespeare

Lear professions of love, but Cordelia did not and her answer was not the one he wanted from her. Because of this, he gave his ki...

4 Western Literary Works and Free Will

In 6 pages the theme of free will as it appears in Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, King Lear by William Shakespeare, Docto...

Audiences' Changing Responses to King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the way in which each generation's audiences has responded to King Lear, relating it to their o...

Literature's 'Three Unities'

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

Historical Literature and Family Dynamics

In five pages this report examines how family dynamics were portrayed in epic literature in a consideration of Sappho's poetry, Ar...

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...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and the Fool Character

In five pages this paper examines the dramatic function of the Fool in King Lear by William Shakespeare. There are no other sourc...

'Breathtaking' King Lear by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper examines the significance of taking a breath in this analysis of King Lear by William Shakespeare. There ...

Cordelia and King Lear

In five pages this essay examines the unwavering love Cordelia had for her father King Lear despite his oftentimes less than pater...

Evil and the Great Britain of William Shakespeare's King Lear

In ten pages this paper discusses the three groups of characters, the dual plots, and the evil of Great Britain that are featured ...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and Natural Law

In 5 pages this paper examines how the Elizabethans perceived natural law in a consideration of how it is represented in William S...

Shakespeare and Sophocles, Tragedy, and Heroism

In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

Tragic Hero King Lear

Lear," Lear chooses the love and respect of his children as the highest good, and so can only suffer from loss of their love and r...