Certain parallels can be drawn between William Shakespeare's plays, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and "Romeo and Juliet". These parallels concern themes and prototypical Shakespearian character types. Both plays have a distinct pair of 'lovers', Hermia and Lysander, and Romeo and Juliet, respectiv...

THE STRUCTURAL PATTERN OF SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY William Shakespeare was one of the most famous playwrights in the history of theater. Ironically, in his day, his work was not considered literature, but entertainment. Many of the plays he wrote were comedies. The main purpose of the comedy is to ...

Twelfth Night is one of the masterpieces of William Shakespeare. This gender confused romance has always been regarded as a comedy. The story starts when a pair of twins which look very much alike was separated by a shipwreck. The sister in the twins, Viola, disguised as a eunuch to serve the duke, ...

Sunddenly, Bob dashes out into the audience and jokingly asks one of the audience members if she would like to catch a movie after the play. This type of thig was typical at The Complete Works of William Shakespeare in Samuel Park in Dallas. It was an entertaining comedy with many themes and many ...

Certain parallels can be drawn between William Shakespeare's plays, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and "Romeo and Juliet". These parallels concern themes and prototypical Shakespearian character types. Both plays have a distinct pair of 'lovers', Hermia and Lysander, and Romeo and Juliet, respectively...

William Shakespeare has written many different categories of plays: comedies, tragedies, romances, and histories. Comparisons are abundant between many of Shakespeare's works. Numerous comparisons can be made in characters, plot, and speech between Romeo and Juliet, which is a tragedy, and Much Ad...

Much Ado About Nothing is perhaps William Shakespeare\'s most depressing comedy. Although it is ultimately uplifting, throughout the play there are themes that are also prevalent in such devastating tragedies as Romeo and Juliet and Othello. Trickery, deceit, and death are woven throughout this smar...

" If we shadows have offended,Think but this and all is mended,That you have but slumbered here,While these visions did appear.And this weak and idle theme,No more yielding but a dream."A Midsummer Night's Dream by English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare is a comedy combining love, fairies, m...

Romeo and Juliet Today we viewed the beginning of two different versions of Romeo and Juliet. One was the 1968 version, directed by Franco Zefferilli. The second, which I feel had a larger impact on me, is a 1996 film by Baz Luhrmann. This film made a bigger impression on me because of the means...

Shakespeare In Love is a romantic comedy that traces the year in the life of William Shakespeare. The film\'s screenplay was co-written by Mac Norman and Tom Stoppard who created the film by taking actual facts of Shakespeare\'s life and experiences and entwining them with pieces, ideas, and words f...

Choice and Chance In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet there are many instances in which choice and chance play a key part in what occurs in the play. If these chances were not taken or by chance did not occur maybe Romeo and Juliet would have escaped to Mantua. Although in the end their cour...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet Born in a small market town of Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564, William Shakespeare was the son of a successful glove maker, landowner, moneylender, and deal in agricultural commodities (Brooke 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). He attended the free Stratford Grammar School whe...

Watching Sandy Powell's designs for Shakespeare in Love for the second time only reaffirmed my feeling that she deserved the Academy Award, if only for the peacock-feather dress worn by Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth. I was literally drooling over the costumes both times through the film. ...

In the late 1500\'s, male authors were constantly writing sonnets to keep up with the famous craze going throughout the hearts of the audience. One of the legendary sonnet creators in the history of English writing is William Shakespeare. His writing had its own style and individuality that kept the...

Shakespeare and His All Natural Love by Raquel Wood Shakespeare's ability to convey love, whether thwarted or fulfilled, is unparalleled in that he could do it in the form of a tragedy, comedy, or sonnet. He uses nature to convey this love in many cases. From Romeo and Juliet he writes, "But, sof...

\" If we shadows have offended, Think, but this and all is mended, That you had but slumbered here, While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream.\" A Midsummer Night\'s Dream by English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare is a comedy combining love, ...

'Darkness, death and sorrow dominate this play. There are no positive elements to the play.'Do you agree?In the play Romeo and Juliet darkness, death and sorrow are certainly present and often dominant at certain times throughout the story. However, these more negative aspects are not the focus of...

William Shakespeare, the English poet and playwright of the 16th -17th centuries, is known as the best dramatist in the world. He is also known as the best author who has written in the English language. He has written a lot of great plays and sonnets, which are read and admired by people all over t...