First Triumvirate

Shakespeare is not just a person who lived 500 years ago, he is the kind that has written about 37 plays and 156 sonnets. His plays were played by only male actors on stage, even the female parts. Phyllis Rackin main point in his book Woman and Shakespeare, in titled chapter ‘Boys Will Be Girls’, has said that women actors play an important role on stage. The women perform the female parts as adequately as the male actors, it arises concern about masculine sexual identity and males on stage…

stupidity, which is defined at this “Behavior that shows lack of good sense or judgement.” Keeping this idea of stupidity in mind while analyzing Odysseus’s actions, we start to see where the line between the two qualities is blurred. Many readers at first glance find Odysseus incredibly brave by planning to attack all 108 suitors alone, at the same time. But it’s likely that this is only seen as courageous because he succeeded. When we look at Odysseus’s actual plan and execution, we see many…

In the play, As You Like it, Shakespeare pens through the character Jaques, the proverbial saying, “all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.” No doubt, we are all players on the world's stage, but like Shakespeare—whether we've ever put pen to page, or fingers to keyboard, to spin a yarn or not—I believe we are all storytellers as well. As the oft-quoted dictum goes, knowledge is power, and stories, ab initio have been its modus operandi. Romantic, or realistic,…

According to the organization dedicated to Shakespeare’s authorship, Shakespeare Authorship, it is listed that the first possibility of another author arose in 1769. “The Life and Adventures of Common Sense” by Herbert Lawrence questioned the possibility that Shakespeare might be a pen name. During the Renaissance era, in which Shakespeare was from, there seemed to be…

Slight Defects The “Glass Menagerie” is a play about memory, specifically the memories of the author Tennessee Williams himself. This play is meant to be biographical, but also is, at times, grossly unrealistic. That was Williams’ intention, however, to give the play a mortifying demeanor. This play is with hidden ulterior meanings as well as glimpses into the true life of Tennessee Williams. The play features Tom Wingfield, the main character and narrator of the play, Laura Wingfield, his…

Through all elements of history, these will always be people who crave for power. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth is an allegory about a gentleman who wants to be a “uile-neartmhor” member of society through unrighteous methods. The question is…who has the most control throughout the story? The possibilities range from many different characters such as Macbeth, the Weird Sisters, or Lady Macbeth, who are all a big part of this classic piece of literature. Power not only flows through them, but they…

prominent settings with opposing forces that are central to the context of the play. These two different settings explain Shakespeare’s underlying messages and themes that he wanted to convey to his audience. The setting the readers are introduced to first, Athens, is meant to represent the harshness of the real world, while the other main location, the forest, has a more lovable and happier notion. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the dissimilarities of the setting enhance the mood and conflicts,…

Documenting Culture on the Map of Canada: Samuel Hearne’s Eurocentric Values Unknown territory left explorers eager to make it comprehensible, “I drew a Map…but left the interior parts blank, to be filled up.” (Brown and Bennett 28) One of these explorers was Samuel Hearne, a European explorer who arrived in Canada at the age of 21. In Hearne’s published exploration narrative, A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean, he describes his encounters with the…

in order to live. Then, he has the audacity to ask Hal if he can claim to have killed Hotspur so he can earn a higher social class from King Henry IV. The man is incorrigible. He is corrupt, and part of that is what drove Hal from his father in the first place. Usually, it looks as though Hal takes better care of Falstaff than the other way around. Between in 3.3 when Hal repays Falstaff’s debts and in 5.4 lines 152–153, “For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, / I’ll gild it with the happiest…

William Shakespeare’s Play Credibility William Shakespeare is a phenomenal writer who had a distinguished career in writing and acting but further studies into his writing has left suspicion of help from other writers. He wrote a gathering of great hit plays and stories that have since shaped American literature and is currently used in American literature classes today. His work spreads through comedy, history, tragedy, and poetry; it was the entertainment of the past and he was in the center…