YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Contemporary Perspectives on Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Essays 541 - 570
In four pages this essay analyzes the character of Queen Gertrude and argues that her state of denial is responsible for her actio...
In ten pages this paper presents a character analysis of Shakespeare's innovative portrayal of the tragic protagonist. There is t...
In five pages this paper discusses Prince Hamlet's identity search within the course of Shakespeare's play. There are no other so...
leaves Cordelia dowerless. As luck or providence would have it, through a twist of fate, Cordelia became the queen of France. Go...
In three pges this paper contrasts and compares the characterizations of Penelope in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Desdemona in Othel...
In this research paper the differences and similarities between these characters are examined in an analysis of the assertion, 'Do...
In six pages this paper examines the alterations Oliver Parker made to Shakespeare's play in his 1990s' interpretation in terms of...
In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares Laurence Olivier's 1948 Hamlet adaptation with Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 interpret...
In five pages this paper discusses how love, characters, and Feste's role are presented in this Kenneth Branagh production of Twel...
In four pages this review includes discussion of character and plot development, staging, and considers how they support the actio...
sent to the town of Illyria in which she becomes a servant of Count Orsino which is played by Horace Jackson. Viola causes many p...
should take place in the nineteenth century, a time characterized by scandalous behavior, which he believed would make 400-year-ol...
In three pages these sonnets are examined in an analysis of such criteria as tone, verse, symbolism, and theme. There is no bibli...
This 5 page paper emphasizes how Rosalind is a woman truly ahead of her time in Shakespeare's comic farce, stronger and more intel...
and the tales of this one mans adventure. The man is Odysseus and his adventures are legendary. He is not a man searching for the ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way good and evil and father and son relationships in these two plays. There ...
Durang's satire of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is considered in this report of five pages in which the author's succes...
In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles are depicted in these two classic works of literature. Five so...
In eight pages these works are contrasted and compared in terms of the relationship between the marriage concept and the female ch...
flies. Though that his joy be joy, / Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senato...
shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...
which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...
wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...
not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...
indicates, Lady Macbeth provides the necessary motivation for the initial murder. She tells Macbeth that if she had sworn an oath ...
for the rest of the world, There will never, never be another Laurence Olivier" (69). The article goes on to report that at the "s...
true circumstances of her first husbands death, and the exact nature of her guilt. There does not appear to be much in the play th...
the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...
forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...
as he did during the fateful dinner when the guest at the Brabantio table was the victorious General Othello, his treasure could n...