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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 ...

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’s The Tragedy of King Lear compared and contrasted with Kurosawa’s Ran and

In this essay which contains three sources and five pages, the writer compares and contrasts the film of Akira Kurosawa called RAN...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Literature's 'Three Unities'

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

Aging and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In 5 pages this paper compares the aging issues presented in King Lear by William Shakespeare with problems senior citizens curren...

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...

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...

The Best and Worst in on Human nature in King Lea

were planning to abdicate in favor of one of the women, that would be different, but hes not-he is dividing the kingdom without na...

Marx Brothers' Duck Soup and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this report compares Groucho Marx' character Rufus T. Firefly in the 1933 film Duck Soup with William Shakespeare's ...

Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear, a Study in Shakespearean Conflict

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

Families in the Works of William Shakespeare and Happiness

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and its Christian Content

persecuted and killed for their faith. We also note that throughout the play Lear slowly develops into a man who understands hi...

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,...

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...

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...

Insanity of King Lear

enter the hovel, stating that he will pray and then sleep. Lear then prays for all the people who do not have shelter on this nigh...

M.L. King/Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Alabama because he was "invited here" and because of his "organizational ties" to the area (King). Statement of Understanding: H...

Oedipus & Creon as Rulers

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

Peruvian Racial Prejudice and an Application of Martin Luther King's Theories of Nonviolence

In a paper consisting of five pages the similarities between modern Peru and 1960s America are noted in a consideration of how Kin...