Shakespeare's late romances

Macbeth Macbeth tells the story of a man named Macbeth and his struggle for power. He and his friend Banquo are told by three witches that Macbeth will become King and Banquo’s children will become king as well. Macbeth, content with his prophecy, goes home to tell his wife. Lady Macbeth, his wife, tells him that he should just go kill the king and take control of Scotland on his own. Hungry for power, he kills King Duncan, frames Duncan’s chamberlains for the murder, and takes his throne. He then

A young love that first caused disagreement and violence brings two rival family together in peace and harmony. The very well-known tragic drama Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare during the late 1500s, but it takes place back in the 1300s. The plot is developed in Verona, Italy where two teenagers from two rival families, Capulets and Montigues, fall in love with each other. The relationship becomes nearly impossible due to the enmity of their families and, eventually, they lose

The Discourse of Dance in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Rough Draft) Alan Brissenden, a noted dance critic and Shakespearean scholar, asserts that “when Shakespeare uses dance it always contributes to plot, character, or imagery, and sometimes to all of these at one time (“Jacobean” 249). In the comedies, dance is used in the first few acts of the play to create an atmosphere of dramatic irony: dance, in its fundamental purpose in the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater was to create a sense of harmony and

In 1961, West Side Story, a filmed version of the hit Broadway musical that was inspired by William Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet," was released to viewers, who just could not resist the energy and excitement of the movie. Thirty-eight years later, viewers, like myself, still cannot resist it. I had never seen the film, which was directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, before, but I had always wondered why people loved this multi award-winning movie so much. After viewing the film, I think

Acceptance of Loss of Time in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 and Keats’s When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be      Time spent fearing the passage of time wastes the very thing that one dreads losing. Both Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 73" and Keats’s "When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be" reveal the irrationality of this fear and explore different interpretations of this theme: to Keats death equates an inability to reach his potential, to accomplish what he desires; to Shakespeare death (represented

William Shakespeare’s character Hamlet once said, “To be or not to be: that is the question whether tis nobler in mind to suffer…”. Music, poetry, and plays were important parts of entertainment during the Elizabethan era. Musicians composed new types of music, poets expressed their feeling through poetry, and playwrights wrote plays of different types of genres. Social classes and gender roles also contributed to the entertainment culture. During the Elizabethan era, people were entertained by

two concepts or two aspects of something; a dualism. It can be expressed in different ways such as: love and hate, good and evil, right and wrong, etc. Duality is mainly expressed in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as life and death but there are also other forms of it, for instance, love and hate because of the romance between the two warring parties. Duality is also expressed in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which focuses on the duality of mankind and how everyone

ENGLISH ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, is one of William Shakespeare’s most celebrated works in history and is known to be one of his most comedic pieces of literature. With its’ lighthearted sense of a late 1500’s Elizabethan era work, the famous play showed many relevant ideologies of society according to its particular era in history. Many of Shakespeare's works have been adapted into successful films that were made to suit the society of a new and different age, for example, his piece ‘The Taming

Many aspects of today’s society have been heavily influenced by ancient Rome. Creation of law, development of democratic government practices, designs in architecture, literature and art are all areas where influences of the Roman ideas are present. One significant area impacted by Roman culture is entertainment. Entertainment has always played a vital role in every society, not only in the community, but also through the expansion of knowledge and culture. However, in Roman society, entertainment

or play should have. The setting is a café, and the first scene describes the characters as “Betty, a woman in her late twenties, is reading at a café table. An empty chair is opposite her. Bill, same age, enters.” (Kennedy, Goia 1187). The vague descriptions of the setting and characters led the audience to focus their