First Triumvirate

Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe. It was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe’s death and at least ten years after the first performance of the play. Doctor Faustus is the story of a man coming to grief by his unbridled thirst for knowledge and power which leads him to his final damnation. It is a play of deep questions concerning morality, religion and man’s relationship to both. This play actually feeds the desire of the supernatural beliefs of the Elizabethan…

Throughout history, people have been writing about love that cannot be, but even with all those stories out there, some of them engaged the reader more than others. Each story that is written has the same main idea and plot, but yet they are so different. All of them show that nothing good can come for a fued or segregation.Two stories that grabbed the attention of everybody worldwide are Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, and “Pyramus and Thisbe” by Ovid. While Romeo and Juliet…

will critically be discussed in terms of different characters’ actions and their choice of words. According to DeLuca (2015) words can be a powerful tool when it is used for deception. The first technique that…

Lear appears to grow throughout the course of his story and eventually learns the importance of humility before his tragic death. For example, Lear is very condescending towards the fool for the first half of King Lear, but eventually proves his worth as a person and redeems himself before he dies. The first acknowledgement of this change is where the text reads, “My wits begin to turn.- / Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold? / I am cold myself” (III. ii. 73-75). The concern he shows for…

Analyzing Romeo and Juliet through the view of Aristotelian principles of a tragedy Romeo and Juliet is one of the famous love story as well as a Shakespearean tragedy written by William Shakespeare probably in 1591 and 1595. The play was published in 1597. It is mainly about two young lovers whose family did not get along, but later a tragic death occurs to them which reconcile the two families. Shakespeare got inspiration from a poem called “The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Luliet,” by…

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt (A discussion on the similarities and differences in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing) When renting movies nowadays, the movies are often organized according to their genres. There are thrillers, comedies, rom coms, action/adventure, horror, etc. The list goes on for ages. Before there were movies, there were plays. Shakespeare is the most famous playwright in history. He often wrote plays in three genres. Comedies, tragedies, and…

If Romeo and Odysseus are the heroes of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Homer’s The Odyssey respectively, then Juliet and Penelope, the wives of both men, are the heroines. The relationship between Juliet and Penelope holds similarities only insofar as they share similar situations and the effects of them. The true differences in the lives of these woeful women lie within their responses (i.e. their love for their families in addition to their husbands) to the similar occurrences in their…

Moral ambiguity, a phrase often used to describe the character of Caliban from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, meaning that he is neither good nor bad when it comes to ethical decision making. This essay aims to show that Calibans’ moral ambiguity may be a result of Shakespeare using him as a representative of the injured party of colonialism, indicating that he is a victim of the era and does not fully comprehend the western clarification of moral decision making. The Renaissance began with…

‘Macbeth’ is a play by William Shakespeare set in 10-11th centuries. Appearance and reality is key theme throughout the play to explain the character's actions and thoughts and the differences that occur between them. Shakespeare uses a number of techniques to show appearance and reality including metaphors, contrast and caesuras. These create a number of effects to show appearance and reality in different ways and views. One way Shakespeare explores appearance and reality is through…

This epistolary writing, titled “The hush within turmoil”, is an adaptation of the play “The Tempest”, by William Shakespeare. These are a bunch of diary entries by “Miranda” as seen in the original play “The Tempest”. However, she is given the name “Myra” in this adaptation. This story is based on an Indian modern day backdrop as opposed to the Renaissance setting on a Mediterranean island in the original play. The names of some characters are changed due to the change of the geographical area…