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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...

Viktor Frankl's Theories and Meaning in Macbeth and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper examines how life's meaning and human suffering's relationship is represented by these William Shakespeare...

The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare and the Evil Protagonist

In five pages this paper presents a psychological analysis of Shakespeare's evil protagonist Richard III....

William Shakespeare's Use of Fools in Comedies A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night

In five pages the characters featured in these plays are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Symbolism of the Terms 'Denmark' and 'King' in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In seven pages the symbolism surrounding the use of the terms Denmark and King are examined within the context of Shakespeare's tr...

An Analysis of Tragedy in Three Plays

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

Leontes in A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

In five pages Sicilia's King Leontes is analyzed in terms of his character's functions in Shakespeare's tragedy. Five sources are...

The Comedy of Romeo and Juliet

plays make it clear that Shakespeare is being funny. However, one of the many examples of Shakespeares masterful skills is demonst...

The element of Tragedy in King Lear

when she comes across her father once more, when he is mad and lost and truly a tragic figure, she does the right thing and stands...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Dramatic Effects

While she has gone to do this, Macbeth, again imagines that he hears knocking and sees an image of a hand plucking out his eyes. ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Dramatic Irony

the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...

Othello Questions and Answers

In a paper consisting of twelve pages study questions pertaining to Shakespeare's tragedy are answered in break downs according to...

King Lear, Act V

This essay presents an analysis of Act V of King Lear and how it relates to the patterns established previously in the play. Three...

Familial Relationships in “King Lear”

first act. The play opens with Lear deciding to divide his kingdom among his daughters. He is getting old and no longer wants the...

Seven Soliloquies of Hamlet: A Journey into Madness

things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...

Hamlet and the Attractive Prospect of Suicide

his mother Queen Gertrude announces she eloped with Claudius, her brother-in-law who will now succeed Hamlet Sr. as King. The Pri...

Jealousy, the 'Green-Eyed Monster' and William Shakespeare's Othello

The depiction of jealousy in William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is the focus of this thematic analysis consisting of 5 pages. ...

Shakespearean Conflict Analysis

of honor. Macbeth is one of Shakespeares darkest and most intriguing plays- a tragedy of ego, obsession, guilt and ambition. Ma...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Characterizations of Laertes and Prince Hamlet

In five pages these 2 characters featured in William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy are contrasted and compared. There are no ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Sympathetic Character of Claudius

In five pages five scenes from the play are presented in an argument that Claudius is in fact a sympathetic character in William S...

1952 Film Version of Othello

In five pages this paper considers the unique opening scene of Orson Welles' 1952 adaptation of William Shakespeare's famous trage...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Women's Roles

often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...

Claudius's Character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

Women of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

Comparing the Cinematic Versions of Hamlet by Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

Macbeth and Blood

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

Contrasts in William Shakespeare's Othello

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

Director Michael Almereyda's Version of Hamlet

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

Film Versions of William Shakespeare's Othello by Directors Orson Welles and Oliver Parker

In five pages this paper critiques 2 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. One source is cited in the bi...

Blame and King Lear

In five pages William Shakespeare's elderly protagonist is examined in a discussion of whether or not he can be blamed for the tra...