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Leadership in Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare

during his reign. For a number of years, King Henry VIII relied on Cardinal Wolsey, his principal minister, for guidance in his l...

Imagery in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

believing in ghosts was akin to presuming that Satan had taken on the appearance of the dead so as to overtly jeopardize the decea...

Shakespeare/Sonnet 73

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

Oresteia

the thematic meaning by indulging in revenge and violence, the characters are behaving more in terms of instinctual, animal behavi...

Symbolism and Imagery in The Glass Menagerie

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

Role of Religion in 2 Irish Plays

the Virgin Mary are frequently called upon in the characters speech to protect them and deliver their society from the hatred that...

Luigi Pirandello, Madness, and the Plays Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV

another prosperous sulfur merchant, culminated in their marriage and the birth of a daughter (Coppolillo 73). But whatever domest...

Miller, Williams, Fantasy and Wishful Thinking

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie and Portrait of a Girl in Glass

visit is an old school friend of the son and daughter. In the play there is a similar sense of expectation involving this man as T...

Comparative Analysis of August Wilson's Play Fences and Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun

While some claim this is a story of "An African American family pursuing the American dream of owning a home" it is really about o...

Analysis of Tom in "The Glass Menagerie"

her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams and the Isolation of the Pollitt Family

in the direction of other family members. Outside their own room and their private conversations, however, the subjects they rais...

Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Jungle Fever

takes place between Stanley and Jungle Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the peo...

Single Women in Toni Morrison's Sula and in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

In five pages this paper considers the portrayal of single women in this comparison and contrasting of Morrison's novel and Willia...

Works of Tennessee Williams and the Theme of Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses how sexuality is thematically portrayed in Tennessee Williams' short story 'Desire and the Blac...

Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and Dual Conflicts

In seven pages along with an outline of one page this paper presents an analysis of the dual conflicts that appear throughout this...

Act II Scene ii of Hamlet Within the Play's Overall Context

In six pages the response of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern to Claudius and Gertrude, the response of Claudius to 'The Murder of Gon...

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 ...

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...

Glass Fragility in Tennessee Williams' Play The Glass Menagerie

"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

Memory Play Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

decides rather early on that each of them would be better off without the other to feed, fuel and nurture the dysfunction of their...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

Miles Gloriosus Play by Plautus

"heavy father ... [who] is often led into the vices and follies which he has reproved in his son" (Bates, 1906, vol. 1). These com...

Theater of Pain - Hedda Gabler and Equus

is a social climber; and she has no respect for her husband or his scholarship, finding it and him both incredibly boring. She is ...

Play Therapy and Behavior

allowed for recognition of human thought as an "integral part of human behavior" (OConnor, 1991, p. 26). Prior to this point, beha...

The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco

In six pages this research paper considers the playwright's Holocaust observations and how they contribute to the play's meaning. ...

Play and Film Versions of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...

Prince Hal's Maturation in Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper examines Prince Hal's maturity in this Shakespeare historical play in an analysis of the roles played by F...

Four Essays On Literature

This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...

Mexican Drama and Xavier Villaurrutia

to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...