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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...

3 Perspectives on London

In five pages this paper examines three viewpoints of London as revealed in such literary works as Howard's End by E.M. Forster, S...

Figurative Language in Shakespeare and Cavendish

the borders on the grotesque, emphasizing the ugliness of oppression and graphically depicts the "natural" struggle between predat...

Lost Children As a Literary Theme

This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...

Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Play and Film Versions

severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...

Film and TV Adaptations of King Lear, Hamlet, and Othello

of Hamlets famous soliloquies, except for the ones which heightened dramatic impact, such as "To Be or Not to Be." He shrewdly ch...

Five Tales of Anti Feminism

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

Perspectives on Authority in Renaissance Drama

The writer examines several of Shakespeare's plays (King Lear and The Tempest), as well as Fuente Ovejuna by the Spanish playwrigh...

Shepard, Ibsen, Hare, and Shakespeare Character Sketches

is certain he will. Nora then discloses how she borrowed the money for their trip to Italy and has been struggling to pay it back ...

Romantic Era Poetry and the Conflict of Man versus Nature

of what we have learned to accept in more recent times. That we are but one race of creatures that has existed for only a short t...

A Streetcar Named Desire Film by Elia Kazan

is still a little to doubt that the cover up of her impending death is just not another part of her overall facade. Yet, because ...

An Analysis of Comedy Of Errors

This seventeen page paper analyzes the intriguing characters in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. The paper emphasizes the critical...

Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Modernism

In eight pages modernism is defined and then Williams' Paterson and Pound's Cantos are contrasted and compared in terms of how thi...

An Examination of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

In five pages this essay considers how Shakespeare's historical play was later rewritten and revised in order to be more applicabl...

American Theatrical Realism in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams

In nine pages American dramatic realism is discussed in an analysis of Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under Elms and Tennessee Willi...

King Lear, Beowulf, the Concepts of Kingship and Hero's Downfall

In five pages these literary characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their deaths with the concept of kingship and what...

Stage Direction in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

In six pages this essay analyzes the thematic importance of props, lights, setting, and stage direction in Tennessee Williams' The...

Life of Tennessee Williams Reflected in The Glass Menagerie

In seven pages this paper discusses how Tennessee Williams' own life and family pain was reflected in the drama The Glass Menageri...

Hypocrisy in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

In eight pages this paper discusses the theme of hypocrisy as it is portrayed in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire part...

Conscience, Action, and Revenge of Hamlet

In eleven pages this paper examines the revenge of Shakespeare's tragic protagonist and how his being caught between acting and hi...

Madness Feigned or Real in Ophelia and Hamlet

In twelve pages this paper discusses the presentation of madness in Shakespeare's tragedy as genuine in the character of Ophelia a...

Madness of Hamlet

In six pages this essay examines the self destructiveness of Shakespeare's tragic character and how this life negation contributes...

The Character of Henry V

Shakespeare's The Life of King Henry the Fifth is discussed along with the protagonist. This five page paper has three sources ...

A Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

This research paper/essay offers a critique of Baz Luhmann's adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The writer discusses ho...

Adolescent Suicide and Romeo and Juliet

This research paper analyzes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compares its narratives to instances of adolescent suicide and fam...

Love or Lust in 'Romeo and Juliet'

In an essay of 5 pages, the paper considers whether the attraction between Shakespeare's star crossed lovers was physical attracti...

Comparing Three Works Thematically

This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...

Shakespeare's Villains, Iago vs. Shylock

Othello's Iago and The Merchant of Venice's Shylock are villains who drive much of the action in the plays. This paper examines Sh...

Poetically Viewing Women

In five pages Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach is compared with James Joyce's Araby and Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 to disccus the co...

The Unredeemed Captive and Puritanism

In four pages this paper discusses Reverend Williams' conduct and how it is representative of his Puritan beliefs. Two sources ar...