Among the many early modern poets, William Shakespeare stands as one of the most highly celebrated. The impact of his poetry has extended across many nationalities and ethnicities influencing many of today\'s most brilliant writers. The main reason for Shakespeare\'s huge success is his boundless w...

In today\'s society, one may feel overwhelmed by the thoughts of despair and hopelessness when it comes to true love in a relationship. Divorce has become a fixture in the average American home as well as separation or never settling down at all. William Shakespeare\'s love poems have always provide...

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 ...

William Shakespeare-An Introduction to His Life, Times, and TheatreBy Irvin RibnerMany factors went into Shakespeare's and formed his writings. Including the English Renaissance, and the Elizabethan Theatre. Each played a significant role in plays that...

Magic in Shakespeare's Tempest The Tempest, written in 1611, was one of William Shakespeare's last plays. It has a combination of superb characters, interesting settings, and a good plot line-all held together by the running theme of magic, and its ever- present importance. A clo...

The question of what is literature has been asked many different ways and has been answered inn many different ways. One of the multiple ways one can examine a work for its worth has been presented in Abram's "Ordeal of Fire and Water." This selection argues that a pie...

Othello by William Shakespeare remains an amazing, well-read and often-performed drama, approximately 400 years after it was first put to paper because every person that reads it can relate to a part or many parts of the play. Both the major and minor themes in Othello are emotions that are inheren...

Shakespeare's Sonnet #73, published in 1609, is written in the Shakespearean or English sonnet style. It consists of three quatrains and one couplet at the end, written in iambic pentameters. Each quatrain has its own rhyme scheme, rhyming in alternating lines. The couplet summarizes the precedin...

Literature Essay Question: Discuss the presentation of love and/or death in two or more poems Love is a theme prevalent in texts throughout the ages. However, never has the theme been explored as thoroughly than in William Shakespeares' sonnets. In Shakespeares' sonnet 116, the poet co...

As with many languages the development of English has had many influences. In early times natives of the British Isles were invaded and often conquered forcing the adaptation of new sounds and expressions. Then as England begins to defy the world, the enormous influences of the King James Bible an...

Bylan Dillard4 February 20007th periodThe Globe Theater is probably the most important structure in Shakespeare'sdramatic career. Built in 1599 by the Chamberlain's Company, it stood on the Southernshore of the Thames River in London. At this time Shakespeare was a member of theChamberlain's Compa...

Unrequited love is when one person loves someone but that person is not loved back. Shakespeare and Maureen Daly both used examples of unrequited love in Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream and Daly's short story "Sixteen". In both these stories unrequited love affected the emotions of so...

"MacBeth", although one of Shakespeare's greatest works, disappointed me when seen on stage. Usually, acting captures the raw emotion and depth of a character's feeling. However, in this recent portrayal, I found there was a great lack of true sentiment resulting in confusion and...

If there is one quality that distinguishes Shakespeare from all other playwrights it is his uncanny ability to breathe life into his characters. Most playwrights write plots before they write characters. The characters are then selected based on whether or not they suit the framework of the plot. Th...

The First Staging of Shakespeare's MacbethWilliam Shakespeare's first production of Macbeth was performed at the Old Globe Theatre in 1606. At the time James I was the king of Great Britain and Scotland. In 1606 his brother-in-law Christian IV visited King James. Many scholars suggest that ...

Romeo and Juliet (R&J) is very characteristic of a Shakespearean play because of its recurring themes, language and diction, and story of a tragedy. Much like Hamlet and The Tempest, Shakespeare incorporates themes such as family rivalries, father and daughter relationships, revenge, and obedience ...

Romeo and Juliet (R&J) is very characteristic of a Shakespearean play because of its recurring themes, language and diction, and story of a tragedy. Much like Hamlet and The Tempest, Shakespeare incorporates themes such as family rivalries, father and daughter relationships, revenge, and obedience ...

How do the Shakespearian elements of David Gow's Away, contribute to the overall success of the play.??The Shakespearian elements of the play Away, by David Gow, contribute to the overall success of the play immensely. The play contains elements from a number of Shakespeares plays including King Lea...

Figurative language occurs whenever a poet uses words in ways that deviate from their usual meaning. Sometimes, complex examples of figurative language leaves me puzzled but if I sit down and think about what I am reading, the underlying meanings become apparent. A metaphor is a comparison between t...

"How Courtly Love has Survived"Courtly Love has survived through the years, managing to evolve from Shakespeare to Aerosmith. It is safe to say the form through which Courtly Love is expressed has changed in the process of evolution. We no longer go around reciting poetry to those we admire, o...

Romanticism began in the early 19th century and radically changed the way people perceived themselves and the state of nature around them. Unlike Classicism, which stood for order and established the foundation for architecture, literature, painting and music, Romanticism allowed people to get away ...

Love has many different meanings to different people. For a four-year-old, love is marrying her daddy when she grows up. For an elementary school kid, love is what he or she feels for his or her best friend, who also serves as a boyfriend or girlfriend. To a fifteen-year-old boy, love is what h...

There are many examples that one can come up with to compare Othello with O.J: the fish and juice. They are both stars in there own way, heroes, warriors, and gladiators. So with some of these ideas in mind, this is how I am going to compare the similarities of the two. Othello, who's known a...

The arts are commonly grouped into four categories, those of dance, music, theater, and the visual arts. Dance is the human experience translated by physical movement. It can be anything from the classic form of ballet to ballroom. Music is sound, how pitches relate to one another-composed to con...