William Howe

In his play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Dario Fo, a playwright and left-wing activist, uses comic elements to narrate the story of the suspicious death of a railwayman and anarchist, Giuseppe Pinelli. Although the details of the case have been twisted by Fo, this farce is successful in provoking thought in the minds of the audience. Pinelli’s name is not present in the dialogues, but the prologue states that the play is a reconstruction of the case. As per the police report the anarchist…

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare began and ended with death, but the story continues to live on. Romeo and Juliet was written in 1500’s and showed how relationships worked back then and how Shakespeare saw relationships. It is important to use lenses because, “The different lenses also allow critics to focus on particular aspects of a work they consider important.” (McGinn research, via Tyson, Richart). The relationship lense is looking at the different types of relationships and see how they…

Romeo and Juliet, Pyramus and Thisbe and Romeo and Juliet in Bosnia are all very similar and different stories. Each show a story of love, beauty, and tragedy. Their differences are what make each tale stand out. Their genres are very impactful on each story. Each tale shows that love is a powerful force that can be deadly at times. The three stories are similar in many ways. They all follow a similar plot and all have a similar theme of the dangers of love. Two young lovers meet, but…

The dramatist has divided the play Bravely Fought the Queen in three acts with titles for each. The title of the first act is ‘The Women ‘deals with the women characters in the play who are Baa, a widow and the mother of Jitin and Nitin, Dolly, wife of Jiten, Alka, wife of Nitin, Daksha, daughter of Dolly and Jiten, Lalita, wife of Sridhar, an employee in Nitin and Jitin’s advertising agency. Act II is titled as ‘The Men’ which is dominated by men characters of the play as Jitin, Baa’s elder…

one purpose which can be to mislead another individual in order to gain knowledge, to get revenge, or to reveal a plan unknown to the public eye and keeping it that way for the dutiful well-being of the Kingdom of Denmark. In the tragedy Hamlet by William Shakespeare, deception develops into the character trait that initiates the actions, heartbreak, and revenge driving this play. This attribute held by Hamlet is the leading cause of this same flaw development in Ophelia, King Claudius, and many…

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most well known play from all of william shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was written in the 1595 and now their has been many things that the movies have in common and they are also very different. One big difference would be how the characters are portrayed in each of the movies since shakespeare never included stage directions and shakespeare also did not give the actors the whole script but only some of the actors lines so that they could make the play more…

In the 17th century, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were philosophers who developed beliefs about the nature of man, which influenced their political philosophies and ideas about the social contract between the people and their government. Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans were naturally wicked and selfish. He stated that without a government there would be war with every man against each other and life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Meanwhile, John Locke believed that…

Because the fascination and fear of preternatural creatures, and the persecution of witches and in Elizabethan England, Shakespeare included an abundance of supernatural elements into his works. The presence and significance of magic is most prevalent in Shakespeare’s play of Macbeth, with the Three Witches and their influencing, visionary powers of dark sorcery and the ostensibly mad Lady Macbeth. The witchery exhibited in Macbeth, (written around 1600–1606), is arguably a reflection of the…

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, a phrase that has become assimilated commonly with Macbeth. People don’t always show on the outside what they truly feel inside. Sometimes they hide their real feelings to fake a different appearance. Some Shakespearean plays contain dichotomies between appearance and reality. These dichotomies are one of the leading themes in Shakespeare’s works; he thrives on contradictions and ironies. One example of Shakespeare’s usage of this theme is in the play Macbeth,…

Othello: An Empiricist ABSTRACT: Shakespeare, the king of English literature, reached the summit of his power over English. In the art of characterization, Shakespeare has no rival. The beauty of the art lies in its characters. We come across many characters that portray nobility, ire, jealousy, conspiracy, etc. in his plays. One of the fascinating characters is Othello- the portrayal of jealousy and suspicion, an icon of empiricism who digs his own grave. This paper focuses on…