Shakespeare Essays

 Oedipus Rex and Hamlet are two tragedies with regicide at the centre of their plots. The theme of the first play by Sophocles is subjection of free will to divine design. William Shakespeare’s play is also about the limitation of man in respect to the divine. The latter is however …

Duke senior describes how, at Arden, he could see ‘tongues in trees”, “sermons in stones” and had no enemy except the harshness of the elements of nature- “churlish chiding of the winter’s wind”. The pastoral existence was devoid of the “painted pomp” back at court which shows the carefree, pleasurable …

Macbeth Probably composed in late 1606 or early 1607, Macbeth is the last of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies, the others being Hamlet, King Lear and Othello. It is a relatively short play without a major subplot, and it is considered by many scholars to be Shakespeare’s darkest work. Lear is …

Shakespeare on Religious Dehumanization: Bringing Awareness, Not Change Discrimination and hatred across religions can be often become a normal part of everyday life, and can be difficult to eradicate and extinguish. In William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, the idea of the “normality” of everyday prejudices comes across in interactions and …

Evaluate the ways in which Shakespeare’s representation manipulates his audience and provokes insights into the text you have studied. William Shakespeare wrote many of his famous plays during his ‘great tragic period’, he wrote them with an aim to not only entertain his audience but to educate them through a …

Richard II, by William Shakespeare, is a play about a King whom is a poor chose in spending his countries wealth, separated from his subjects, and makes unwise decisions for counsel. Richard II then begins to lease land to wealthy noblemen and takes the money from a deceased uncle to …

“The Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare is a captivating play about revenge, justice, deception and friendship. Held within the brutal time of the 16th century, the play is about a pronounced character known as Shylock, who is a reasonably wealthy Jew, lending one of his enemies, Antonio, three thousand …

It’s very easy to see William Shakespeare as an amazing literary genius who had a perspective on life that, to simply put it, no one else has ever had. However Shakespeare was the product of the English Renaissance. The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement spanning from the …

Components in Shakespearean comedies is Happy ending which as a rule includes marriage between the characters, Separation and re-unification, debate between characters, both inward and outer clashes, and a twist amongst Apollonian and Dionysian esteems. Merchant of Venice appears a tragicomedy it has a comic structure however Shylocks, he resembles …

Everyone has his or her own ideas about what happens in life and everyone lives in the same reality. However everyone’s perception of that reality is different. It’s different because our ideas shape our views of what is happening around us. William Shakespeare explored this idea in his play Hamlet. …