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Closely Reading Ophelia's 'Mad' Songs in William Shakespeare's Hamlet Act IV, Scene V

where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Supernatural

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

William Shakespeare's Richard the Third and Its Cinematic Interpretations

brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...

William Shakespeare's Characters Macduff and Macbeth

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

Persuasiveness of Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...

Injustice and Vengeance in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Euripides' Electra

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

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...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Use of Blood Imagery

soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest and King Lear and Sibling Rivalry

"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Human Capacity for Evil

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Character of Puck as Protagonist

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...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Subplot

a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...

Hamlet's Treatment of Women in William Shakespeare's Play

in the famous "closet scene," in which he accuses his mother of being a sexual predator, declaring, "In the rank sweat of an ensea...

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and the Character of Shylock

anti-semitism. Religious: The Christian church of the period inherited all the accumulated "demonization", which had occurred ar...

Patriarchy and William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages this paper examines how the social patriarchy victimizes Othello and his bride Desdemona in an analysis of Othello b...

Critical Debates on William Shakespeare's Hamlet

addition, (and not atypical of the Bard) Hamlet has more than one focus. For example, unquestionably the Prince of Denmark is one...

Governance Views in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Sophocles' Antigone

were not performed. However, almost as soon as he has made this ruling - that Polyneices body should lay unburied - Creon is faced...

Fathers in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream

love and regards them as intrusions between his will and his daughters future. He says that Lysander has Turnd her obedience, whic...

Act I Soliloquy of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper considers the ghost of Hamlet's father and his soliloquy in Act I of Shakespeare's play in terms of its p...

Tragic Hero's Journey in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and its Theatrical Staging

play opens, the streets of Verona flash with swords and malice as the ancient vendetta between the wealthy houses of Capulet and M...

Cynicism and Satire in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper examines the language usage in Hamlet in terms of its cynical and satirical aspects. Three sources are c...

Emilia and Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages these two wives victimized by their spouses are examined in a similarities and differences comparison and contrast. ...

Comparative Analysis of William Shakespeare's Play Hamlet and Kenneth Branagh's Film Adaptation

In six pages this paper compares the strong similarities between Kenneth Branagh's cinematic interpretation of Hamlet and Shakespe...

William Shakespeare's Historical Play 'Henry IV' Part I

This paper consists of 10 pages and considers the characters' many contrasts in terms of the play as well as their creation. Ther...

William Shakespeare's Failed Experiment, King John

In six pages this paper discusses the theatrical failure of this historical play by William Shakespeare. There are 3 sources list...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and Love

In ten pages this paper analyzes unconditional and conditional love as it is featured in King Lear by William Shakespeare with the...

Positive Outcomes and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In five pages this paper examines how positive ends are always somehow achieved despite the adversity Lear meets throughout the co...

Evil and the Great Britain of William Shakespeare's King Lear

In ten pages this paper discusses the three groups of characters, the dual plots, and the evil of Great Britain that are featured ...

Double Plot Analysis of William Shakespeare's King Lear

In five pages the dual plots that propel the action of King Lear by William Shakespeare, those of Lear and his daughters and Glouc...