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Ill follow thee and make a heaven of hell,/ to die upon the hand I love so well" (Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene 1, lines 241-244). W...

supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...

Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...

and helps to keep the play from floating off into fairyland entirely. Likewise, when Egeus says that his daughter Hermia will ei...

toying with his free will it seems. But, for the most part Theseus, is a noble and heroic duke who loves Hippolyta in the real sen...

(Foakes 23). Until this time, many directors seem to see the play as a literal fairy tale for children and staged it as such; Broo...

popular comedy. The antics of Bottom and his friends, the eerie majesty of the fairies, and the mixed up relationships among the y...

even death. Rather than comply, Hermia elopes with Lysander, fleeing into the woods. Shakespeare emphasizes the enormous consequen...

logic. The play consists of a quartet of couples - secondary characters King Oberon and Queen Titania, and Theseus and Hippolyta;...

for fear Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there" (Shakespeare II i). This is a very magical surreal image, but also a very fun ...

the Christmas hymn by Charles Wesley is drawn from "No. 2 (The Lied) of Mendelssohns Festgesang, for male voices and brass instrum...

famine as being the direct manifestation of her conflict with Oberon) and the madness itself is generated by the very human desire...

This essay pertains to "The Comedy of Errors" (1594) and "Twelfth Night" (1601) by William Shakespeare and "The Rivals" (1775) by ...

Twelfth Night and The Tempest by William Shakespeare share a number of comedic scenes and an undercurrent of comedy as well. This ...

In five pages this paper discusses how love, characters, and Feste's role are presented in this Kenneth Branagh production of Twel...

sign of love for the two, likely having been together for a long time, demonstrate that love is by no means unchanging and without...

and Oberon are the sovereign spirits of the woods and in their own right are exotic royalty. Yet again, the issue of appearances ...

This paper consisting of six pages employs a priori interpretations in a discussion of this play and the ways in which this interp...

In five pages this research paper concentrates on how Shakespeare uses the rude mechanicals and the true purpose they serve in thi...

In this paper consisting of five pages the star crossed lovers of Hermia and Lysander, Demetrius and Helena, and Hippolyta and The...

In this seven page paper these two classic plays are compared and contrasted in regard to allegorical reference, imagery, locale, ...

In twelve pages a discussion of whether or not Shakespeare represented chastity as threatening in these works concludes the chasti...

In eleven pages this prologue that closes Shakespeare's comedy is analyzed for its political and sociological message that is cont...

to a convent or even death. The image of a snake conjures the possibly of death, and suggests that Hermia is not as brave as she...

reigns supreme, The Tempest is more contemplative and probes the more sinister side of humankind. The mood, setting, and themes a...

and nothing to do with the prank that Oberon is playing through Puck. They happen to enter into the midst of the chaos however, an...

the play, and enable him to comment on the actions and feelings of his fellow characters with some distance. He is not fully inte...

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

In portraying Beatrice in this manner, Shakespeare shows insight into female psychology in that he realizes that women are frequen...

go to her, but only if she will profess love for her father to eclipse the love of any other man. Only if she promises not to mar...