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Hamlet and the Film Adaptations by Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these 1948 and 1996 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy with the ...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and Natural Law

In 5 pages this paper examines how the Elizabethans perceived natural law in a consideration of how it is represented in William S...

Orlando Character in As You Like It by William Shakespeare

is off to university, but Oliver has deprived Orlando of schooling and keeps him living and working on the family, actually Oliver...

Thematic Comparison of Othello and Hamlet

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the theme of betrayal as it is depicted in William Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet is discussed....

Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

'Outsider' Status of Othello

of Venice is highly revealing of his character. This characterization is vital to the internal logic of the play because the trag...

War and Propaganda

rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...

Queen Gertrude's Guilt in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

may wish to add that Claudius and Gertrude both attempt to find out what is bothering Hamlet, which only serves to make it more pl...

Odysseus, Hamlet, and the Supernatural

note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...

Protagonist's Ruin in Macbeth by William Shakespeare

whetted it for a more impressive title. It was a seemingly innocuous meeting with a trio of witches that would sow the seeds of M...

Plot Structure of Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

"A Midsummer Nights Dream" are both plays which rely heavily on this sort of humor, though they may be more refined in a sophistic...

Historical Importance of William Shakespeare's Works

book (Rubinstein 28). He apparently married Anne Hathaway in 1582, and their surviving children, both girls, were illiterate (Rub...

The Taming of the Shrew PA Ballet Production

staged "fights" in movies and plays, these actions are real and therefore telegraph real emotion to the audience. When Katherina s...

Director Michael Almereyda's Version of Hamlet

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

Comparing Stage and Film Versions of Othello

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Desdemona's Role

very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...

Luke's Gospel and Shylock's Experiences in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

Characters of Macbeth and Othello

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

Exercise in Dante's 'Inferno'

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

Claudius's Character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

William Shakespeare's 'Romantic Revisions'

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

The Tempest and William Shakespeare's Uses of Imagery

- a group ironically consisting of the very men who had conspired against Prospero - Antonio, the King, the Kings brother Sebastia...

Women of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Women's Roles

often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...

Othello's Noble Change

with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...

Tragedy of William Shakespeare's King Lear

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

Theme of Incest in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

1949. The first soliloquy provides ample opportunity to witness the impact this has upon Hamlet, inasmuch as he simply cannot com...

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...