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Shakespeare's use of Clowns

one author, his "role in this Illyrian comedy is significant because Illyria is a country permeated with the spirit of the Feast o...

Disguises in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

thou hast a mind that suits With this thy fair and outward character. I prithee, and Ill pay thee bounteously, Conceal me what I a...

Literary Nature of Comedy

this suggests, comedy provides numerous benefits. When the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean lay on his deathbed, it is reput...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and 5 Questions

Sir Toby Belch is Olivias kinsman and the primary comic conspirator in the play. Sir Toby treats Malvolio and Sir Andrew as fools ...

Annotated Bibliography on William Shakespeare's Tweflth Night

Lamb, Mary Ellen. "Tracing a Heterosexual Erotics of Service in Twelfth Night and the Autobiographical Writings of Thomas Whythor...

Final Scene from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

the fact that he is likely the only man of her social standing in the entire realm. Instead she falls for one who is nothing more ...

How Identity is Mistaken in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

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...

Putting Sir Toby on Trial

an end to Tobys activities. Even Maria has warned Toby that the Lady Olivia is growing impatient with him: "Your cousin, my lady, ...

Comparing Film Versions of Twelfth Night

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

2 Dutch Masters, Leyden and Steen

earnings from his art were meager ("Seven Dutch Masters: Jan Steen"). In the popular imagination, Steen is associated with the i...

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...

Satire: 12th Night vs. Miller's Tale

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale." The writer asserts that Chaucer's narrative ...

Idealist, Realist Women, Shakespeare, Sheridan

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

As You Like It, Twelfth Night and Cross-dressing

plays, the audience is also presented with descriptions that conjure androgyny, which was a prevalent idea in the Elizabethan era....

Gender, Women, and 2 Plays by William Shakespeare

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

Themes and Supporting Images in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

the juxtaposition of the two worlds: that of humanity and that of the fairies. They exist side by side by do not interact; in fact...

The Theme of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...

Dreams, Magic, and the Difficulty of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

indicates that "The theme of loves difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance-that is, romantic situati...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of the woods and the rebellion theme in an analysis of A Midsummer Night's Dream...

Irvin D. Yalom's Love's Executioner

revealing aspect of "Loves Executioner" which makes the book a tremendously useful and constructive resource to practicing psychot...

Agape, Eros, Philios, and Storge Types of Love

that man and woman should be attracted to each other, fall in love, marry, and produce new life. This is Eros love" (Eros. Philios...

Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman and Other Works of Literature

the government offices depicted in Elena Poniatowska?s The Night Visitor. In Poniatowska?s story as well, the author is striving f...

The Bumpy Course of True Love in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

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

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and Customs of Elizabethan Love and Marriage

In five pages this paper examines how Shakespeare portrays the love and marriage customs of his Elizabethan era within the context...

Theme of Slavery in 3 Literary Eras

slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...

“The Romantic Movement” by Maurice Cranston

said to have been a reaction against classicism. In Germany it was a reaction rather against rationalism, emerging together with a...

The 'Unreality' Theme of A Midsummer Night's Dream

In five pages unreality is the focus of this paper on the comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. There is one s...

Romantic Emotion and the Differences Between Emily Dickinson and John Keats

all (Hinze PG). Dickinson is described as reclusive and shy. Although she was well educated, she is said to have often deferred ...

Aristotle and Plato on Human Nature and Love

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...