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William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' Act I, Scene III

they are in committing to marriage. The imagery evoked by "violet in the youth of primy nature" implies that Hamlet is interested...

Crime Fiction and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, there is a third option, w...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Deadly Character Flaws

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

3 Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Richard III

most notably, but not really missed, were Queen Margaret, and Edward IV. Some of the lengthy dialogue was taken out without detrac...

College Stage Performance of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

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...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet Performing Arts Review

In four pages this review includes discussion of character and plot development, staging, and considers how they support the actio...

Homer and William Shakespeare's Portrayal of Women

In three pges this paper contrasts and compares the characterizations of Penelope in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Desdemona in Othel...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Film Adaptations by Directors Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh

should take place in the nineteenth century, a time characterized by scandalous behavior, which he believed would make 400-year-ol...

Oliver Parker's Film Interpretation of William Shakespeare's Othello

In six pages this paper examines the alterations Oliver Parker made to Shakespeare's play in his 1990s' interpretation in terms of...

Comparative Analysis of the Film Versions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares Laurence Olivier's 1948 Hamlet adaptation with Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 interpret...

Kenneth Branagh's Production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

In five pages this paper discusses how love, characters, and Feste's role are presented in this Kenneth Branagh production of Twel...

William Shakespeare's Sonnet Fifteen

This paper paraphrases Sonnet 15 by William Shakespeare in five pages in an analysis that includes argumentative quatrain point an...

Analyzing the Character of Rosalind in William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It'

This 5 page paper emphasizes how Rosalind is a woman truly ahead of her time in Shakespeare's comic farce, stronger and more intel...

Dramatic Structure in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

five-act pattern. The setup creates the plays "world", introduces us to the characters, and lays the groundwork for some of the c...

Soliloquy Analysis of 'To Be or Not to Be' in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Ophelia in the process. The burden of these struggles is more than the emotionally fragile prince can bear, and when he utters th...

William Shakespeare's Sonnets 'Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds' and 'My Mistress' Eyes'

In three pages these sonnets are examined in an analysis of such criteria as tone, verse, symbolism, and theme. There is no bibli...

Prospero in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Don Quixote in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

In this research paper the differences and similarities between these characters are examined in an analysis of the assertion, 'Do...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and the tales of this one mans adventure. The man is Odysseus and his adventures are legendary. He is not a man searching for the ...

William Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth and Sophocles' Oedipus

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way good and evil and father and son relationships in these two plays. There ...

Women's Roles in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles are depicted in these two classic works of literature. Five so...

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

In eight pages these works are contrasted and compared in terms of the relationship between the marriage concept and the female ch...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's 'Inferno' Compared

leaves Cordelia dowerless. As luck or providence would have it, through a twist of fate, Cordelia became the queen of France. Go...

Macbeth by Shakespeare and Characterization

perplexed, sudden and desperate in act, from a distrust of his own resolution. His energy springs from the anxiety and agitation o...

Tragic Hero and Heroine Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

of fate. In the process, our sympathy is aroused" (The tragic hero). Within this definition, tragedy also is included in that it ...

Friendships and the Impact of Virtue or Lack of Virtue in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar

both politically as well as personally. For Brutus, virtue was a trait that could never be compromised for it was synonymous with...

'The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality' by Bernard Williams

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

Macbeth's Tragic Nature

acts cowardly. Much of this comes from predictions of three witches, and after the deaths begin, the witches make further predicti...

Greed and Power in Characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

by killing King Duncan. But, he is hesitant about doing such a thing. It is, however, Lady Macbeth who urges him on. It is Lady Ma...

Tragic Themes in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Sophocles' Antigone and William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...

Macbeth's Character Traits

battle, but this passive character allows others to control his fate. One cannot deny that Macbeth expresses a unique fascinatio...