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Literature's 'Three Unities'

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

Orson Welles' 1952 Film Othello

Iago - played by Michael MacLiammoir Iago is roughly thrust into the cage, and by means of a creaking iron wheel and pulley, the ...

Bisexual Sonnets of William Shakespeare

This paper analyzes the bisexual implications of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 20. There are no other sources listed...

William Shakespeare's Protagonists Hamlet and Macbeth

the King. Macbeth, while in a different conflict, is a man who, for the simple sake of his ambition, is willing to murder his k...

Hand of Destiny

In five pages the hand of destiny as it reveals itself in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and tin the films The Man Who Shot Liberty...

Comic Analysis of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

In five pages this paper presents a comic and situational analysis of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Two sources ...

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...

Shakespeare and Mythology

In five pages this paper examines William Shakespeare's use of mythology in such plays as The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, ...

Tragic Hero and Macbeth

its consequences (Hegel as cited in ODair 215). Hegel further argues that all tragic heroes must encounter a pattern of nobilit...

Comic Techniques in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

from the tempest of my eyes" (I.i.132-133). Hermias friend, Helena, meanwhile, is in love with Demetrius, and recognizes that Her...

Classic Literary Poets, Searchers, Lovers, and Heroes

In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...

Major Themes of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Analyzed

intensity of a hurricane, which dramatically sets the plays tone. Shakespeare recognized the importance of the ghost, which essen...

Shakespeare's Villains

In five pages this paper contrast hero weaknesses with the villains in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Othello, Richard II, and...

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...

American 'Palefaces' and 'Redskins' in Literature

In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...

Marital Disintegration in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

In five pages this essay examines what tensions led to the disintegration of the Macbeth marriage within the context of William Sh...

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 ...

Predictions of the Trio of Witches in Macbeth by William Shakespeare

almost always determined to meddle in the business of the divine or the immortal. As a result, there is never a truly positive out...

Shakespeare and the Importance of Setting

historical piece in that regard, as are all other Shakespearean plays it would seem. In providing us with this particular time per...

How the Amish Perceive Life

this framework. The Amish and the Mennonites are the antithesis of Macbeths nihilism, as these Anabaptist congregations reject th...

'Closet Scene' of Hamlet and New Historicist Criticism

prior to and following the death of Elizabeth I (Kelly and Kelly 677). Through certain key scenes in Hamlet, Greenblatt contends ...

Examining Shakespeare's Comedic Dream

In this we are set up with a very quiet and harmless love that is only waiting for consummation. It is a pleasant little scene tha...

Analyzing Lines in Macbeth from Act II, Scene iii 100-105 and Act V, Scene v 20-29

/ I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant / Theres nothing serious in mortality. / All is but toys; renown and grace is ...

Aristotle's Concept of the Tragic Hero Applied to Hamlet

remind the audience that because of his noble status, he must avenge his fathers murder not only for himself but also for the Dani...

Suicide and the Symbolism in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

him become worried at this change of character and personality. Everyone offers their opinion, but the Queen decides that she will...

William Shakespeare's 'Dark Lady' Sonnet 127

In this way the sinfulness is likened to the darkness, since evil and dark tend to go hand in hand. And the fact that one is a mi...

A Macbeth Analysis

audience would see this dark scene as entrancing and somewhat frightening. We can envision this when we hear the first witch ask, ...

Innocence Lost in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

Hamlet and Images of Disease

a Denmark in decay, resulting from the marriage between Claudius and Gertrude, which enables the cunning brother to seize the thro...

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,...