The history of William Shakespeare, poet and playwright, is anything but one free of controversy. There are several arguments challenging his very existence. Over the years, every aspect of his life has been studied and researched comprehensively. One of the most intriguing aspects of his life und...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET NUMBER THREE Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb Disdai...

Shakespeare had multiple goals in mind when he sat down to create one of his masterpieces. Whether it was a sonnet or play, much of his work was dedicated to his patron, the Earl of South Hampton, named William Herbert. In the introduction to The Complete Sonnets and Poems, it states that Herbert ...

Literary texts are always concerned with the construction of gender and the meaning of belonging to one sex or the other. In the play Othello, by William Shakespeare the gender construction is used to define the roles of men and woman during the time in which the play was written, the Elizabethan er...

William Shakespeare is known for not having the best of times with women or getting the best women. For his time he was not an awesome catch, but if the ladies only knew what they would have had if everything were theirs in the end, then things may have been different. In his time he was doing ok wi...

The meaning and importance of love in marriage has changed throughout time. In our society, most marriages exist solely because of love. Marriages occur between all sorts of people; the influence of family, social status, and especially wealth has much less to do with the marriages of today compared...

Women in ShakespeareOften in literature, parallels are used to accentuate certain things. William Shakespeare utilizes this tool in both The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream. In both of these comedic plays, there is a set of women who are at odds with each other. These relationsh...

\"Twelfth Night,\" a play by William Shakespeare, seems to be a very romantic story that has a lot of interesting twists involved. Everyone appears to be in love but within all of these love stories, there is a lot of drama that surrounds the play. All of the main characters find themselves to be in...

Controversial Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare has been christened by modern audiences as one his most controversial plays. The story is a rendition of a classic folktale in which a husband tames an abysmal wife. Katherine [Kate], the "shrew," is portraye...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a romantic tragedy about a family feud that causes the death of two young people caused. Shakespeare's character, Juliet, transforms from an innocent child to a rebellious teenager. As J.A. Bryant Jr. states, "Shakespeare's real miracle...was Juliet, tran...

Chikamatsu Monzaemon and William Shakespeare were literary cornerstones of their time. Although separated by a continent of land and nearly a half-century in age, they both used their workings to bring their respective time period to life; Monzaemon gave insight into the pre-modern Edo Period of Jap...

Love or Arranged Marriages The first time I saw the movie 'Romeo and Juliet' was in English class. The film is an adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare about two teenagechildren from warring families who fall in love. Convinced that their families will never al...

Lies and Deceit Can you recall, at one time or another, being approached by a good friend or possibly an acquaintance with these opening lines, "Let me tell you what I heard." William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, is a play primarily about gossip. The charact...

Hamlet Exam Is Hamlet an Oedipal character? After the reading of the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, one may concluded that Hamlet is not an Oedipal character. According to the story of Oedipus, his father, Laius, learned from a prophet that Oedipus would kill him. Upon this revelation, Laiu...

The play written by William Shakespeare of Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy containing one main element that makes the play a comedy; it is the element of sex. This is a play that involves an elaborate chain of schemes, tricks, and deceit to achieve an ambiguous "true love" effect. The play is bas...

Much Ado About Nothing is one of William Shakespeare's many comedy plays. Much Ado About Nothing differs from most of the other comedies in that it has "naturalized" the romantic materials. There are not any fairy kingdoms, as in Midsummer to help the story flow better. Even the language does not ...

The infamous Shakespearean play Hamlet is a story of irony, tragedy, and uncertainty. Based upon many themes and motifs, these ideas create the foundation of this profound literary work. William Shakespeare causes the reader to rethink the essence of life and to consider its uncertainty. The themes ...

In Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, each character has their own different view of love, but Romeo and Juliet's are the most different, with their thoughts, you can compare and contrast many different ideas...When Romeo first saw Juliet, he was stunned at her beauty, but did not tak...

Women in Shakespeare Often in literature, parallels are used to accentuate certain things. William Shakespeare utilizes this tool in both The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream. In both of these comedic plays, there is a set of women who are at odds with each other. These relationship...

In many works of literature a character gives a statement that relates to another characters condition. In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the ghost gives Hamlet a statement that relates to Hamlets condition. " Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest....

Does Kate end up at a casualty of male power games or is she liberated from her own self-inflicted defensiveness in her relationship with Pertruchio?In the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Katherina Minola is the daughter of Baptista Minola. He is known as a wealthy man with two ...

William Shakespeare must have been endlessly fascinated by the relationships between men and women. The Bard's most popular plays dealt with the male and female dynamic, which were often played for laughs in satirical comedies, like Much Ado About Nothing. The play's action and conflict revolved aro...

The movies, The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare, and 10 Things I Hate About 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, are both about two sisters who are completely different. These two movies, although similar in plot and summery, are both very different. The two movies are...

Hamlet Through life people encounter different incident and situations where one has tomake choices. Everyone is not alike, so there are numerous ways in which people deal with these encounters. In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the main characterHamlet undergoes a bunch o...

In William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, there are many forces that effect the final tragic ending. Fate, Destiny, Love, and Hate all seem to control Romeo and Juliet's lives. The effect of hate is particularly harmful. It engrosses the minds of all Capulets and Montagues and corrupts thei...