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Issue Appeasement in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and Romeo and Juliet

In ten pages this paper discusses Shakespeare's efforts at religious, political, and social appeasement in this trio of plays. El...

Depiction of Women in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

This paper examines how women were depicted by William Shakespeare in his comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream in eleven pages with th...

Analysis of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and William Shakespeare's King Lear Act I

In five pages there are four questions answered in an analysis of how metaphor and imagery are employed in these two literary work...

Race Aspects in William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages the blackness of Othello the Moor is considered on various levels. Five sources are listed in the bibliography....

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Foolishness

In six pages the foolishness of characters Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, Helena, Oberon, and Titania as presented by Shakespear are...

Act One, Scene Three of William Shakespeare's Othello

In six pages this pivotal scene and its impact on the characters as well as its tragic implications are analyzed. There are no ot...

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the Roles of Aggression and Violence

In five pages this paper discusses how Shakespeare employed violence and aggression in this tragedy in a consideration of the role...

Mel Gibson's Cinematic Interpretation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Characters of Ophelia and Queen Gertrude

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Revenge

involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...

Injustice and Vengeance in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Euripides' Electra

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Use of Blood Imagery

soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...

William Shakespeare's Richard the Third and Its Cinematic Interpretations

brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...

Persuasiveness of Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...

William Shakespeare's Characters Macduff and Macbeth

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

Closely Reading Ophelia's 'Mad' Songs in William Shakespeare's Hamlet Act IV, Scene V

where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Supernatural

supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...

Deceit and Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

In short, then, Othello has it all, and in Iagos eyes, he has nothing. It is apparent that Iago has worked for many years in the s...

Family Conflicts in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, and William Shakespeare's Othello

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Relationships Both Natural and Unnatural

Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...

'Mystery of' William Shakespeare's Hamlet

hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...

Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Dramatic Irony

In five pages the representation of dramatic irony in these plays are compared in terms of their similarities. There are no other...

Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages this paper presents the argument that Desdemona's love for the Moorish Othello expands romantic love to include fide...

Revenge Theme in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...

'Mad' Protagonist of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

to do so throughout the play as he plots his revenge. "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To...

Motivation of Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

onto that of an innocent man. This cleverly conceived plot is Iagos manner of psychologically fooling the one he is also deceivin...

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 ...

William Shakespeare's Othello Cinematic Adaptations

box office. Welles was a product of his time and though he had tremendous creativity when it came to camera angles and budgets,...

Jealousy in William Shakespeare's Othello

In three pages this essay analyzes Othello in a consideration of jealousy's featured role in the characterizations of the protagon...

William Shakespeare's Coriolanus

men pitted against one another. As a reader, and as an audience member, one does not have any sort of emotional attachment to any ...