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William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Elizabethan Women

beautiful and good-tempered woman and Baptista is aware that will have no difficulty in finding her a husband; however, Katherine ...

Shakespeare Heroine Analysis of Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, Rosalind in As You Like It, Maria in Twelfth Night, and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing

her. She vows, "The devil a Puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a / time-pleaser; an affectiond ass that cons state wi...

Gender, Women, and 2 Plays by William Shakespeare

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

Hamlet as a Reflection of Past and Present Times

is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...

Shakespearean Film Productions and the Depiction of Women

a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...

Elizabethan Society, Women's Role and Portia in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...

Los and Grief Expressed in Poetry

soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...

Comparative Analysis of To Penshurst by Ben Jonson and Description of Cookham by Aemelia Lanyer

In 5 pages this paper presents an ideological analysis which compares Lanyer's text to Jonson's poem. Two sources are cited in th...

Writings of Ben Jonson and Their Significance

to tell than did the others. His work, whether comedy, drama or poetry, also had an extra acerbic "bite" that audiences enjoyed (...

Envy and Virtue in Volpone by Ben Jonson

An ethical analysis of Jonson's satirical work is presened in a paper consisting of a six page discussion that the world is driven...

'To Penhurst' by Ben Jonson

In two pages this paper discusses how Jonson's poem reveals the ideal English society in the Penhurst country estate. There is no...

Ghosts of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Elizabethan Superstition

Elizabethan superstition with regard to ghosts helps to fuel the supernatural inferences in Shakespeares Hamlet, because the two e...

Literary Psychoanalysis of Sir Epicure Mammon, Malvolio and Falstaff

the view we are given of these characters is attributable to an author is critical given the powerful could control art for their ...

Renaissance Racism and William Shakespeare's Othello

to Todorov, the Spaniards could not conceive of the Native Americans as "equally human but culturally different" (Berry 315). The...

Elizabethan Drama, Scriptures, and the Christian Church

In fact, Lewis Wagers 1567 morality play based on biblical teachings, The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, presented a chara...

Music During the Elizabethan Period of William Shakespeare

ways to evoke feeling and mood. This was an important aspect of the plays he wrote and the inclusion of music was standard for hi...

Elizabethan Theatrical Drama Represented by the Film Shakespeare in Love

significant influence on the literature being written. Words, turns of phrases, double-meanings were all of the utmost importance ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and Customs of Elizabethan Love and Marriage

In five pages this paper examines how Shakespeare portrays the love and marriage customs of his Elizabethan era within the context...

Romeo and Juliet and Fate in Elizabethan England

In 6 pages Elizabethan concepts of fate are examined within the context of The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and ...

Elizabethan Social Issues in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

This paper consists of ten pages and examines how the important Elizabethan social issues of Christianity versus superstition, cla...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and its Quatrains and Couplets

In five pages the quatrains and couplets that were so popular during the Elizabethan period are considered as Shakespeare masterfu...

Life of Playwright William Shakespeare

17-18). It is probable that their sensitive son was aware of his parents marital discord, but losing himself in books was never a...

Past and Present Interpretations of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Caesar with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who was at that time entering the twilight of her life.6 At the time it was initially...

Social Expectations and Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

also survived the wreck to conceal her true nature. Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become T...

Shakespeare's Tempest and Colonialis

European descent of Prospero and his belief that by taking over the rule of Caliban, he can "help" the people and bring "civilizat...

Ben Jonson's Play Epicoene, the Silent Woman

"The stylish young Ned Clerimont, apparently drunk, stumbles in, sips a cup of who-knows-what, sips another cup, and then proceeds...

Ben Jonson's 'A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces' Explicated

narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...

Ben Jonson's Humanism

of man; the belief that the only values that matter are human values" (Read, 161). And J.A. Cuddon adds that it is "a form of phil...

Punishment of Volpone in Ben Jonson's Volpone

In five pages this paper discusses the fact that while Volpone received punishment in this play by Ben Jonson, whether or not it w...

Ben Jonson's Comedies and Characters That Overreach

make him sick in actuality. To relieve his masters distress, Mosca tells the lady that her husband is riding off in a gondola with...