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Importance of the Fool Character in William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Critical Assessment

might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...

Murdering a Friend in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

This paper examines why Marcus Brutus would murder his friend Julius Caesar in a five page analysis of William Shakespeare's histo...

Defending the Character of Othello

In nine pages this paper defends the title character of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. There is included a bibliography....

Tragic Irony in Othello by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper examines how irony heightens the tragedy in William Shakespeare's Othello. There are no other sources li...

Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet

In each, their gestures of submission paradoxically enable the expression of desire. This shows female characters that inhabit th...

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...

Justifying Authority

The ways in which authority has been justified in literature is examined in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' William ...

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 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...

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...

William Shakespeare's 'Romantic Revisions'

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Connection Between Othello by William Shakespeare and Poetics by Aristotle

of patriarchy and the political state (Shakespeare, 1994 and See Also Lambs Tales from Shakespeare - Othello, 2001). This essay ...

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...

Fitzgerald and Williams in Terms of Style, Theme, and Characterization

In six pages the stories 'Crazy Sunday' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin' by Tenness...

Hamlet, Was He Insane?

has credible reasons for his melancholy state, as his father has been dead only two months, and his mother has already remarried. ...

Character Study of Hamlet

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

Star Wars by John Williams

This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...

Lord and Lady Macbeth's Relationship in William Shakespeare's Tragedy

man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...

Othello's Disintegrating Spirit in William Shakespeare's Tragedy

In six pages this research paper on Othello by William Shakespeare focuses upon the protagonist's spiritual disintegration. Five ...

'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...

Tragedy of William Shakespeare's King Lear

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard the Third and the King's Treatment of Women

In seven pages this paper considers Queen Elizabeth, Queen Margaret, and Lady Anne in terms of how they are treated by Richard III...

Comparison of Richard Loncraine's Film Richard III and William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard the Third

The caricature representation of Richard in both film and play is discussed in ten pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliograp...

William Shakespeare's Tragedies and Patriarchal Structures

so heavily reliant on the patriarchal system. She is passive and obedient, indicating that she easily goes along with the society,...