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The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare and Elizabethan Usury

In five pages this paper examines the customs of moneylending that existed during Elizabethan times in this consideration of a let...

Act I, Scene iii Analysis The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Lines 183-228

In five pages these lines are analyzed in terms of assessing Shakespeare's choices, his use of such literary techniques such as rh...

King Lear, Disguise and Deception

In a paper consisting of 6 pages the themes of deception and disguise as they manifest themselves in Shakespeare's play are consid...

Female Athletes and Injuries to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament

In eleven pages the reasons that women are eight times more likely to suffer injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament than men p...

Medea Characterization by Euripides

In three pages this research paper contends that the playwright conceived of Medea as a character that would inspire sympathy in a...

A Hamlet Soliloquy Analysis

This paper consists of five pages and considers how the five soliloquies contained in Shakespeare's tragedy reveal the Prince's se...

Game of Chess Represented by William Shakespeare's Hamlet

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

How Petruccio Successfully Woos Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew

In seven pages this paper examines Shakespeare's play in a consideration of how Petruccio is eventually able to force Katherine to...

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

In Defense of Brutus

Cassius proposed that they assassinate Antony also, Brutus opposed it. He argued that the assassination of another man would make ...

British Women During the Victorian Era

The angel required Woolf to participate in her writing only within boundaries, and without stepping passed cultural limitations. ...

Labor and Public Activism of Women

duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...

George Bernard Shaw's 'Mrs. Warren's Profession'

poverty and very dependant and aware of the dangers associated with honest work such as the dangers of lung disease and premature ...

Sociology Of Drama And Theater

impossible for women to live independently. One of their options was to become successful and financially independent prostitutes....

Conflict in Hamlet

she wants to be as close to the seat of power as possible and will do anything to keep her power as queen" and this sets him on a ...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Enduring Love

the only thing they share: "Othello reveals a more detailed acknowledgment of Desdemonas sexual appeal. As he discusses her death ...

The Violation of Athenian Social Norms and Lysistrata by Aristophanes

their worthiness within the stringent boundaries of a male-dominated existence speaks volumes about the inherent fortitude that co...

Macbeth and Christian Symbolism

people who dabbled in witchcraft were conspiring with "the Devil" (Fripp 646). According to St. Paul, "And then shall that wicke...

Importance of Setting in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

consents not to give sovereignty (Shakespeare, Act 1, Sc. 1). However,...

Love in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet A Campbell Analysis

Romeo simply stopped at this infatuation then the tale would not have been so tragic. Romeo gets to know Juliet, and the friar aid...

Caliban, Political Powers, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Images of Night and Day

the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...

Women, Society and Gender/Rome, India and Han China

to many other like-minded societies, Romans looked upon women as possessions to be treated in often a violent manner. What this i...

Nazi Women and Baldur von Schirach

M?del (BdM) in 1930. Within the next few years, all female Nazi groups were incorporated into the BdM under von Schirachs leaders...

Do Not Speak the Speech, I Pray You

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

Was Hamlet Sympathetic or Unsympathetic?

lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet Compared

has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...

Putting Sir Toby on Trial

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

Carol Berkin on Women in the American Revolution

propaganda; they raised money for the army and to support the new government ("About this book"). Berkin shows how they ran farms ...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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 ...