Ur-Hamlet

In The Wife of Bath’s Tale, the queen commands the knight to discover the answer of ‘What is it that women most desire?’, or he will die. The lust drives the knight lost then he takes away the virginity of a maid. Hence, he seeks the answer for one year. The knight searches for the answer far and wide. He gets many of the various answers: people said women are eager for wealth, glory, beauty, luxury outlook, sexuality, remarriage, adulation, the support of husband (for anything the wife wants to…

Christopher Marlowe born in 1564, he was an english playwright, poet, translator of the elizabethan era. He was born to shoemaker John Marlowe. He was just two months older to his contemporary William Shakespeare. He was educated at King’s school Canterbury and at the Cambridge University. He was the foremost elizabethan tragedian of his day. Christopher Marlowe, he was the greatest dramatist of the medieval period. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was based on German Faustbuch. Marlowe’s…

Perceiving People Perfectly: How F. Scott Fitzgerald Uses Characterization in The Great Gatsby to Help Readers Understand the Characters Juliet fakes her death. Chris Mccandless abandons society. Atticus Finch strongly defends Tom Robinson. One of the biggest challenges for people is often understanding others and their situation. “Why did they do that?” “Why won’t they tell me?” “What’s happening?” But, if they knew what was happening in other’s minds and life, knowing their motives and…

In The Yellow Wallpaper, I believe the narrator is suffering from insanity. Her insanity is not due to any prior mental health issue. I believe it is directly because of her detrimental relationship with her husband. Her husband, John, means well, but he is a symbol of male dominancy and the negative consequences it has on women. He assumed throughout the novel what was best for the protagonist, never once asking her herself. Whenever she verbally voiced her feelings to him, he would ignore…

Hayavadana, Naga-Mandala, Tale-Danda and The Fire and The Rain. He has been widely acclaimed by both the theatre and drama critics for certain aspects of his plays: plot construction, characterisation, song, symbolism, use of myth and folktales, reinterpretation of history, projection of contemporary social and psychological problems. In this paper ,an attempt has been to examine critically Karnard's depiction of contemporaneity in his play, Yayati . By exploiting myths and legends, he tried to…

The “Romeo and Juliet” 1996 film co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann, is the adaptation from the William Shakespeare’s Play “Romeo and Juliet” of late 1590’s. The screenplay is written by Craig Pearce in early 1990’s. The success of adaptation depends on how the director visualize through his ideas. Baz Luhrmann has cut the dialogue by almost one-third but its essence has been kept intact (Gyde, July 1997). The costume has been designed well to illuminate an important element of the…

Shakespeare lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth l, commonly known as the Elizabethan era. The Elizabethan epoch is seen by many as the pivotal point in English literature; historians regard it as being the golden age in England’s history. A plethora of books, movies, and plays, including many of Shakespeare’s works, were based on ideas and interests of the time. Consequently, many of his works are reminiscent of values and ideals found throughout this time period. Learning about the…

How Shakespeare expresses England through imagery Imagery helps to set tone and express emotional ties or discomfort to other characters or places and forces the reader to use their imagination for perspective in a literary work. Emotion and perspective guide how imagery affects us. For example, most literate people are aware of the description of heaven and hell. A sickness plaguing a community or village in an era where medicine and disinfectants were non-existent can be described as a…

The Tempest Reimagined “The Tempest Reimagined” depicts two stories in two different timelines, which are acted by the same actors separately in different scenes. The stories were Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ and one depicting the struggles of the Yolanda victims in Tacloban. This would have been brilliant if they were able to pull it off. However, this may have rather caused confusion on my part, especially at some point in the play wherein these two timelines get mixed up, which may have…

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most acclaimed dramas in the history of the English language. It is also one of the most topical, or at least subjective in its own morality. To say that the book is by any means subtle in its use of the ideals of destiny and fate is to do it a disservice. That said, the cliches that this story would have been heavily critiqued for had it been published today didn’t exist during the time of the story’s original creation. Speaking to this, it’s almost contrived that…