1. The Life and Works of William Shakespere
Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. ... The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. ... Shakespeare's Play, Richard III According to William Shakespeare's presentation, Richard III in the eponymous play is a man driven by vengeance, ambition, and a thirst for power. ... Throughout the play, Richard manipulates other characters t...
Its heroine, Katherine, is such a strong willed and overpowering character in the beginning of the play, and when Shakespeare wrote, that was not as common. ... It is the changing of the roles that makes the play unique and keeps the audience interested in the play. ... "Rebellious women- were a concern for Englishmen during the time that Shakespeare wrote his plays (Detmer, Shakespeare Quarterly, 273). ... Katherine was indeed a great source of energy in the play and she was also the play's most complex character. ... He plays mi...
A common theme in the two plays is a contrast of characters. ... However, we also learn early in the play that Kate is not a pushover. ... In fact, Kate can be compared to a wild animal early in the play. ... This belief in her own will is the play's ultimate strength (Bloom 172). ... In 1993, Emma Thompson played the part of Beatrice to great acclaim. ...
Women are portrayed as disconnected from the realm of knowledge; clearly seen in literature, politics, plays, and even art. ... However, in his play "The Winter's Tale," Shakespeare deviates from the standard to which women were regarded. ... In the end of the play, Hermione is represented as a statue. ... Although Perdita does not play a major role until the last act of the play, the audience quickly sees how she resembles her mother, Hermione. ... To compare and contrast pictures of women and pictures of men, is to see the real roles in which they played in the world. ...
He dies in 1616 after completing many sonnets and plays. ... The themes of the play are dreams and reality, love and magic. This extraordinary play is a play-with-in-a-play, which master writers only write successfully. ... Bernard shows the fantasy and reality issues in the play. ... The words moon and water dominate the poetry of the play. ...
Shakespeare has blended the contrasting elements in the play and he highlight that whatever the lovers do has repercussions in the world. The play, Antony and Cleopatra was written in 1606 named as tragedy though it has the element of comedy as well as history. ... It may fall between tragedy and history .However T.S Coleridge rates it one the finest history play as he says: 'Of all Shakspeare's historical plays, Antony and Cleopatra is by far the most wonderful. ... Shakespeare's world ,in this play, stretches from Alexandria to Rome, encompasses Messina, Athens, Actium...
Many critics regard "King Lear" as the greatest, and most tragic, of William Shakespeare's plays; indeed, some claim that it is the most tragic play ever written. ... Critics may go on speaking of the grandeur of Shakespeare's achievement and of Lear as a character, but if the standard readings of the play were correct, a more honest reaction would resemble that of Groucho Marx, when, in a meeting almost as improbable as Lear's encounter with Tom o' Bedlam, he was attempting to explain the play to T. ... Jaffa's reading is true to the text of the play and also to the i...