Shakespeare's romance The Tempest along with many other works of that time help represent the arts and drama which were large parts of the Elizabethan Renaissance. Queen Elizabeth I made many of changes and influenced all England and also much of the world during her reign. She was Queen of England...

Authority is represented in many different ways in the drama of the Renaissance period. Looking different leaders in the different texts and the way that they use their power and authority and how it affects the other characters in the plays one can see this. In Shakespeare's play Macbeth, ...

SHAKESPEARE Let me tell you a story of two young lovers torn apart by the wrath of their parents... oh, you've heard this one already? How about the story of the evil villain plotting to overthrow his king? Heard that one too? Surprisingly enough, these stories came into creation o...

THE EVIDENCEWHEN the first performance of Hamlet ended, a column of people streamed into Maiden Lane and then dispersed, radially through the fields and thoroughfares of Southwark, eastward to London Bridge, northward along Horseshoe Alley to the fleet of wherries waiting on the Thames. A litter of ...

Virginia Woolf\'s Vision Almost sixty-five years have lapsed since Virginia Woolf spoke at Newnham and Girton colleges on the subject of women and fiction. Her remarkable words are preserved for future generations of women in A Room of One\'s Own. This essay is the \" first manifesto of the modern f...

A Critical Analysis of Hamlet's Character and Motives in Shakespeare's Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark In a tradition of literature and remarkable for its exacting and brilliant achievements, the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods have been said to represent the most brilliant centur...