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Figurative Language in Two of Shakespeare's Plays

a wound. / But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

TAMING OF THE SHREW: ABUSE, SATIRE AND RHETORIC

match. Twentieth-century feminists, appalled at the role of women in this play, are particularly appalled at Katharinas fi...

Musical Shakespeare

or not music evokes images which have a significant impact upon mans conduct, in terms of virtue and morality. There is an old sa...

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...

Attachment Among Shakespeare's Female Characters

of the common viewpoints regarding interpersonal interactions inherent in Elizabethan literature. The relationship between Hermia...

Five Tales of Anti Feminism

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

Cinema and Aristotelian Considerations

In a paper consisting of five pages the cinematic adaptations of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Much Ado About Nothing, and Sween...

Y2K and Business

In five pages this paper examines the implications of Y2K or whether or not it is much ado about nothing. Four sources are cited ...

Love is Hate: Much Ado About Nothing

whole man governed with one: so that if he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself ...

Ibsen and Shakespeare/Doll's House and Much Ado About Nothing

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

Shakespeare’s “Merry War”: Gender Roles in “Twelfth Night” and “Much Ado about Nothing”

most famous lovers. The "merry war" referred to in the title is that which is waged by this pair; as Leonato says, "There is a kin...

Women in Much Ado About Nothing

preserve her image against the confusion of emotions and her denied lust for Benedick" (BookLore). Beatrice is essentially a res...

Grade Inflation Causes and Evidence

to determine what can be - and should be - done about it. The basic definition of grade inflation is when a student receives a gra...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

How Petruccio Successfully Woos Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew

In seven pages this paper examines Shakespeare's play in a consideration of how Petruccio is eventually able to force Katherine to...

The Taming of the Shrew: Universal Themes of Love and Marriage and Continuing Relevance

This paper considers the continuing relevance of this Shakespearean comedy through its themes of men and women, love and marriage ...

Dramatic Irony - Examples from Theater

Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...

Much Ado About Nothing: The 'Comedy' of Scapegoats

This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...

Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night/On Film

a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet and Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing

sexual liberties but always remains faithful to the spirit of the original play" (Balingit PG). The setting is quickly establishe...

Dramatic Irony in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

'Much Ado About Nothing' vs. 'Measure For Measure'

This paper consists of 8 pages and examines atmosphere, plot, and characterizations in a comparative analysis. There are 6 biblio...

American Theatrical Realism in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams

In nine pages American dramatic realism is discussed in an analysis of Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under Elms and Tennessee Willi...

Much Ado About 'Nothing' in 'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

In six pages this essay considers how this short story by Ernest Hemingway describes 'nothingness' and the despair of loneliness. ...

'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe and Dramatic Irony

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

The Character of Tom in The Glass Menagerie

This research paper examines the character and dramatic function of "Tom" in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menageri...

Shakespearean Women in Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing

The ways in which William Shakespeare depicted women in these tragic and comic plays are contrasted and compared in eight pages. ...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Dramatic Irony

In five pages Twain's use of dramatic irony in Chapter XXXI is examined in terms of Huck's decision regarding Jim's mistake and it...

Lingering Power of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

dysfunction goes far beyond the limits of the household, hinting at a world that is itself out of sync and in a state of disarray....