Play Essays

Facts Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc. (Playboy) challenged the constitutionality of Section 505 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which requires cable TV operators providing channels dedicated to sexually-oriented programming to either fully scramble or fully block these channels or limit their transmission to hours when children are unlikely to be …

Summary When “online games” come as the subject, it is almost automatically associated to youthful men who devote their time and resources to playing games which usually involve violence, christened “gamers.” However, online gaming is currently expanding its market at the expense of a new breed of gamers: the “casual …

  This paper will analyze the character of Nora from the play entitled ‘A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen. We will do this by looking at act 1. The setting of this play is in the Helmer’s apartment in Norway. The events in the play occur against a background of …

Shakespeare’s characterization of Gertrude and Ophelia in Hamlet is paradoxical as it challenges as well as complements the contemporary social traditions and norms. Gertrude is the best example of this paradox that is manifested through her extraordinary supremacy over all the major characters of Hamlet, her influence in the court …

            The model of the tragic hero and heroine has enthralled audiences from antiquity to date.  Few, if any themes are more fascinating than seeing a larger than life character pursue an errant action which results in personal catastrophe, only to be reborn through the trial by fire and restored …

            William Shakespeare came down in history as one of the greatest playwrights of from his times and for generations to come. His legacy included the best works of literature, even in the present age. Hamlet and Macbeth were two tragedies that he had written that reflected his place literature. …

            Shakespeare’s Othello is a timeless emotional saga of lust, jealously, conspiracy, duplicity, and murder, all essential assets for a drama ripe for endless interpretation.  Of some things and characters we can be certain.  Othello’s wife, Desdemona is a beautiful woman desired by many.  She is also an innocent victim, …

In William Shakespeare’s Othello, desire manifests itself in Iago, compelling readers to see him as if he were a leech; Iago drains Othello of all his moral qualities until he is sucked dry. Similarly, Shylock in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice indulges in seeing Antonio sucked dry of money. Both …

Never assume, for you run the risk of making an ASS out of U and ME. That is the underlying theme of the Shakespearean comedy The Twelfth Night. Mistaken identities and incorrect assumptions are the rule rather than the exception in the mythical land of Illyria. A shipwreck has stranded …

Shakespeare‘s Hamlet is the most famous revenge play ever written. The story centers on murder and succession in the Royal Court of Denmark. But there is more afoot at Ellsinore. + Hamlet is more than a simple “revenge play”. *Themes such as political intrigue, madness and death envelope several characters …