Shakespeare's plays

creative writers into reshaping literature in today’s day. With its popularity, it has become the most written and analyzed play that retains intensity and complexity to move its readers. The prevalent theme of revenge makes it the most well-known tragedy worldwide evoking countless critical opinions of the characters. But before Hamlet, speculation arose that in Shakespeare’s earlier life he had traveled and worked as a schoolmaster as well as being a “lawyer, soldier, sailor, actor, printer”…

Macbeth by William Shakespeare is a play centered around king, country, and best laid plans. In 1785, Robert Burns wrote the poem To a Mouse, a tale about how even the best (or worst) ideas can have terrible consequences. The most famous quote relates to Lady Macbeth and how her plans d0 not turn out the way she imagines they will: “The best-laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/ Gang aft a-gley,/ An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,/ For promis’d joy! (Burns, 39-42). When she encouraged MacBeth to…

been translated to hundreds of languages around the world. Till today his works are highly acclaimed off and his plays are still performed across the planet. Shakespeare produced most of his incredible works between 1589 and 1613. He started with comic and history related plays and then moved to tragedies. This was the period where he was most acclaimed for and his writings and ideas on plays like Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello were highly appreciated. From there he moved to writing romances…

husband. I also think that Lady Macbeth is such a great dramatic character because of her transformation from a dominant position and the initiator of the blood spilling into a fragile women who loses control over her husband. At the beginning of the play she has the courage…

Hamlet is a play written by William Shakespeare around the year 1600. Hamlet is the longest play written by Shakespeare. The play takes place in the Kingdom of Denmark and is about one of Denmark’s princes, Prince Hamlet. The story is about how Hamlet gets revenge for his father’s murder. Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, murdered King Hamlet and took the throne and married the queen. The struggles that Hamlet goes through to finally achieve his goal of revenge show the tragedy that he has to endure.…

From the beginning of the play to the end, Edgar evolves from being the innocent, naïve brother whom Edmund deceives to being the powerful, confident man who kills Edmund and ends the horrors he has helped release on the land. This battle between brothers is Edgar’s redemption scene where he finally gets justice by killing the man who caused him so much suffering. Albany does not have a scene anything like this scene between Edgar and Edmund. Not only does he have nothing substantial to revenge,…

Cupid painted blind.” - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s dream. (Goodreads). William Shakespeare’s works, especially his sonnets, namely sonnet 30, sonnet 55 and sonnet 116 included ideas of love, friendship and marriage. Topics of such, are important to Shakespeare because of what went on in his family life during the time of his works and also what had occurred in Shakespeare’s past, thus, his personal issues and circumstances ended up being depicted and portrayed in his…

it all for his country, a true hero by nature; this man is Othello. Othello is no typical hero though. He is a hero full of admirable qualities and one flaw: a flaw that proves to be fatal. William Shakespeare’s Othello, is considered to be one of his most underrated plays and a classic tragedy. This play takes us through the ups and downs of Othello and ultimately leads to his demise as well as the supporting characters’. Othello’s tragic flaw, although argued to be jealousy or egotism, is…

made the truth problematic" (Levine). This research shows that most often humans lie simply because the truth would cause more problems than the lie therefore it would be easier to gloss over some parts. This kind of deceit can be seen throughout Shakespeare's comedy, "The Twelfth Night", most notably with Viola posing as a male. In the time, it would've been fairly risky for a wealthy, and pretty, young woman to be on her own, additionally she had little to no family left that she was aware of,…

(lines 1-2) is the start to Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 20,” which has most critics riddled about Shakespeare’s sexuality. Within the first quatrain, the sonnet leads the reader to believe the speaker is talking about a woman; however, in the last three lines the gender of the subject is revealed to be a man. Critics debate whether or not Shakespeare himself is a homosexual because of the way his sonnets are written and to whom they are about. In “Sonnet 20,” Shakespeare’s sexuality is questioned by…