First Folio

put this more into perspective, we only need to look as far as the texts that I have been analysing in school of late – William Shakespeare’s dramatic play, ‘King Henry IV, Part 1’ and the RSC’s play within a play production. In the play’s very first scene, the audience are introduced to King Henry speaking about how his son, the next in line, is “riot[ous] and dishonor[able]”. Particularly, in comparison to his glorified namesake, Harry Percy, he is no good. At this point…

Abstract: This present study is about the extended metaphors that Shakespeare used in his plays and the real meaning they have. I am going to present two of his plays, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. These plays, as the most of his, are plenty of extended metaphors. Shakespeare is the playwright and poet who changed drama in England and with his contribution the theater became an established part of London life. The major themes in his plays are love, struggle and ambition with his personalities…

Roderigo, Emilia, and even Iago himself are completely undone. Before Othello lets the handkerchief fall from his brow, we have neither heard of nor seen it. The essential capacity of Emilia's discourse is to clarify the prop's significance: as the first gift Othello gave Desdemona, it speaks to their most seasoned and purest affections for each other. While the fact that Iago "hath a hundred times / Wooed me to steal it" immediately tips off the audience to the handkerchief's imminently…

The tragedy of King Richard II is a play written by William Shakespeare. The setting of the play takes place in England, and much of the play is embroiled in turmoil. William Shakespeare's character John of Gaunt compares the land of England to that of the Garden of Eden and includes vivid imagery in the play with rich comparisons. Through the strong metaphors comparing England and people to the plants and nature, Shakespeare was able to make England, a country, a life of its own. In Act two…

First he puts his daughters through a test, asking each to tell him how much she loves him. Goneril and Regan, Lear's older daughtes, give their father flattering answers. But Cordelia, Lear's youngest and favorite daughter, remains silent, saying that she…

Buckingham’s Desire for Revolution Shakespear wrote many plays during his lifetime, but possibly none as complex and busy as Richard III. It is a complex play where many different characters are portrayed in many different roles. One of those characters is Buckingham, a villain and the right-hand man for Richard for the majority of the play. Over and over again he proved himself to be a rebel in almost every scene he was portrayed in. As a rebel he fought as a revolutionist, desiring change. He…

It is evident from the thematic study of Edward Albee’s Who’s is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in the preceding Chapter that the play is thematically rich. Its themes often overlap and support one another in ways that make the play complex and richly textured. Both George and Martha state the theme of illusion versus reality, the most important theme of the play, explicitly in Act III of the play. Martha is horrified at the prospect of facing life without illusions, but George is not – the…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by the English playwright William Shakespeare on 1590-1596. Shakespeare's plays are known to revolve on 3 genres- comedy, tragedy, and history. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a tale that combines the genres of comedy, fantasy, and romance, which are the play’s ingredient to make it significant even until today. The writing style of the play is also deemed very impressive during the time of his people and also to us today. Aside from its genres and…

The Author Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) was born into a samurai family and was originaly named Sugimore Nobumori. After his father abandoned his Samuria duties, the family feld to to Kyoto where they attached themselves to an aristicracy for protection. It was there where he was exposed to the theatre and grew up to write over a hundred plays. In 1705, he moved to Osake to write strictly for Takemoto Gidayu's Puppet Theatre until his death in 1725. He is still known as one of Japan's most…

Shakespeare Over the years many literary figures have come up and made an impact on the current form of the English literature. However, with more fame and value a person gets the more controversy and rumors are to be spread about them. From the many historical literary figures that have made a strong impact on English literature today is William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is known for his original way of writing plays, stories and poems. He had a way to manipulate the language in an artistic…