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The Spanish Tragedy is very often referred to as one of Shakespeare’s sources for Hamlet. In fact, both are revenge tragedies and there are some very solid and outstanding parallelisms between the two plays. Some aspects of this connection are studied in this essay. As for the common characteristics, we can list for example: jealousy,…

  As he reads the reader’s mind is not continually assaulted by the physical brutality of the corpse’s position on stage, thus reducing tension and emotion. The most important speech in the play is Gutierre’s soliloquy in which he invents the metaphor of being a ‘mi?? dico’ and finding a ‘receta’ to cure his honour….

Two long epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey were written by Homer. The Iliad and the Odyssey set the start of all Greek literature. The setting of the Iliad and the Odyssey is in ancient Greece in the time frame at around 1200 B. C, up to 500 years after the Trojan War took…

A monologue from the play by Thomas Kyd NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Spanish Tragedy. Thomas Kyd. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1898. GHOST: When this eternal substance of my soul Did live imprison’d in my wanton flesh: Each in their function serving other’s need, I was a courtier in the Spanish…

A monologue from the play by Thomas Kyd NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Spanish Tragedy. Thomas Kyd. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1898. BEL-IMPERIA: Is this the love thou bear’st Horatio? Is this the kindness that thou counterfeits? Are these the fruits of thine incessant tears? Hieronimo, are these thy passions, Thy…

  In ‘The Jew of Malta’, Marlowe uses the character Machevil to introduce the play in his prologue. This representation of Machiavelli instantly introduces the ideas and principles associated with his political ideas, and Machevil admits his villainy openly. He immediately exposes the conflicting attitudes that people would have had to his works, ‘Though some…

What particular contributions did the Greeks make to the development of urban form? How did the Greek approach to city planning affect later urban development? The Greeks assisted the development of urban form with numerous imperative contributions, all of which promoted each other in succession. Firstly, there was the colonisation movement, which evolved as a result…

Although the goblins depict Rossetti’s opinion of men as sly, scheming creatures, they also refer back to the fairy tale context of the poem. The personification of the goblins would appeal to children as they often appear in fairy tales and folklore. References to the goblins as “little men, hobbling down the glen” create an…

Set against the backdrop of desolation and inactivity, Beckett presents us with the underlying nature of human relationships, through the social dynamics of Pozzo and Lucky, and Vladimir and Estragon. We are shown their emotional reliance, interdependence, and inability for severance, through the extended metaphor of ‘ties’ and the ubiquitous imagery of ropes and ‘being…

The Flute family are made dysfunctional by the harsh rural landscape and the times they live in. Assess the validity of the statement in reference to Thursday’s Child. In Sonya Hartnett’s “Thursday’s Child”, Harper narrates her family’s struggle to survive on the hot and impoverished land during the long years of the Great Depression in…