Shakespeare Essays

Both poems – Sonnet, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Sonnet 138, by William Shakespeare – share a number of common ideas and similarities, with one particularly important similarity: their theme is love. The two writers are very passionate and understanding about this topic, and this is really effective in convincing …

‘The Arden Shakespeare’, argues that Othello is the ‘third of greatest tragedies, contains arguably the best plot and two of Shakespeare’s most original characters’. Originating from a tale written by Cinthio, Othello is seen as one of the Bard’s most passionate and intricate tragedies. The play, originally identified as The …

Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” was first published in1603, a time when women were very much seen to be second class citizens and inferior to men in almost everyway. She is possibly one of Shakespeare’s most confusing characters throughout his plays. More questions are raised throughout the play about her than are answered. …

Romeo and Juliet is a classical play written in the Elizabethan period, between the years 1550’s and 1600’s. It is an archetypal love story, written by Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) in the year 1595. Theatres were not as enhanced as today then. Hence the plot and the scheme of the …

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, But no such roses see …

This play begins with a sonnet, a form of prose usually reserved for a lover addressing his beloved. The sonnet is a very structured form of prose, lending itself to order. Shakespeare cleverly contrasts this orderly sonnet with the immediate disorder of the first scene. Thus, the scene quickly degenerates …

This term in the unit William Shakespeare we have been learn the context and tragedies of Romeo and Juliet. We have also learnt that the play is a big tragedy then was written over 350 years ago. Despite the age of Romeo and Juliet it still inspires the teenage audience …

Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV Part I’, presents the young Prince Henry as an ambivalent and enigmatic character who is politically cunning in his ability to read situations and respond accordingly. He is a man of the world through his association with his friend Falstaff, but by the end of the play …

The shipwreck in Act I, Scene 1, in a 1797 engraving based on a painting by George Romney The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set …

The Twelfth Night is a comedy written by William Shakespeare and was set in an island across the Adriatic called the Illyria. The main characters are Viola, Sebastian, Orsino and Olivia. These characters, coupled with a few more, make up the tangled web of chaos that is depicted in the …