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Women in Much Ado About Nothing

preserve her image against the confusion of emotions and her denied lust for Benedick" (BookLore). Beatrice is essentially a res...

Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets 18, 73, and 130

While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...

Pygmalion-Romance or Not?

is served by an earthy, half-demon by the name of Caliban and a sprite named Ariel. In the course of the play, we learn that Prosp...

Playing in Hamlet: Ophelia

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

Shakespeare and Jonson and Elizabethan Clowns

This essay pertains to William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Ben Jonson's "Every Man in His Humor," and how each p...

Rudyard Kipling's "If" and Othello

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...

Othello, Role of Gender

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Othello" and the role of gender, race and class. Five pages in length, four sources are cited....

Character Studies: Dr. Faustus, Macbeth

This essay discusses the characterization of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," identifying ...

Character Study of Hamlet

This essay presents a discussion of Hamlet's character. The writer argues that Shakespeare's characterization of Hamlet focuses on...

King Claudius and Machiavelli

This essay pertains to the anthropocentric worldview of King Claudius in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Machiavelli, drawing on his te...

Social Interactions in Hamlet

This essay pertains to the thematic content of Shakespeare's play and provides insight into the relationships that Hamlet has with...

Pain of Exile: King Lear, Inferno

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno and the impact of exile on the protagonists. Four pages in leng...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Literature

in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...

Historical English Plays and Marginalization

In five pages this paper considers marginalization as featured in English plays William Shakespeare's Othello and Aphra Behn's The...

Personal and Political Themes in Henry V by William Shakespeare

he is being facetious, not serious. In fact, the manner in which he plans to "thank him" is by taking France from its king....

Analyzing Twelfth Night's Act V

The multiple plot resolutions featured in the final act of Shakespeare's play are the focus of this five page paper and includes t...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Personality Theory of Sigmund Freud

In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's tragedy within the context of the personality theory of Sigmund Freud. Four sourc...

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and the Fool Feste

but around him revolve some of the most significant issues of this extremely complex play. Feste, whom George Steiner calls "Shak...

Orchestral, Opera, and Dance Versions of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

tragedy and more of an exploration of childhood, innocence and youthful passion. In the course of pursuing their relationship, and...

Addressing the Dead in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

This paper consists of five pages and analyzes usage of the term dead and the concept of death within the context of Shakespeare's...

Antagonist and Protagonist in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper examines William Shakespeare's Hamlet in an assessment of the portrayals of the antagonist and protagonis...

William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' and Homosexuality

In ten pages this ppaer examines the homosexual thematic overtones that are evident both in Shakespeare's play as well as Franco Z...

Oedipus and Hamlet

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...

Psychotic Discourse Framing Analysis

were a child answering her mother (Ribeiro 80). The great playwright William Shakespeare was a keen observer of human behavior, ...

Hamlet and the Film Adaptations by Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these 1948 and 1996 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy with the ...

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...

Lesson Plans For Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

more than 350 years ago still receives such attention. In other words . . . whats the big deal? Why is "Julius Caesar" relevant t...

Macbeth's Dagger Soliloquy

This paper examines Macbeth's soliloquy in Act II, Scene I of Shakespeare's play. This five page paper has no additional sources ...

Victim or Villain Macbeth

In five pages this essay presents William Shakespeare's protagonist as a defendant in a contemporary inquest trial in which prosec...

Richard II by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the treachery of Shakespeare's protagonist in an analysis of his characterization, images, abdi...