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On Thursday 22nd May, I saw a performance of William Shakespeare‘s ‘Taming of the shrew. ‘ It was a matinee performance and took place in the Royal Shakespeare theatre, in Stratford upon Avon. The play is about a father (Baptista) with two daughters, Katherine and Bianca. Bianca is sweet and well behaved, and there are…

Nature of Study: In the Beginning of Both A Doll House by Ibsen and The Metamorphosis by Kakfa, Nora and the Samsa family seem to be overwhelmingly dependent of Torvald and Gregor. However, they both continuously change throughout the play and the novel. And my intent is to examine this change and come to the…

The main characters in both ‘The Fly Paper’ by Elizabeth Taylor and ‘The Withered Arm’ by Thomas Hardy are women. These women come from everyday life and are set in the social settings of the writers’ own times. Thus, the characters in ‘The Withered Arm’ come from Victorian rural England. Rhoda Brook is a poor…

Animals are living things that we see in our everyday lives yet we don’t seem to give them any importance. Very few people give them the respect they deserve. The poems I am going to compare are based on animals. The animals are given human qualities, which are done purposely by Ted Hughes to make…

Sydney Walker speaks to the gods. Which ones? William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and other deities of the theatre, who have taken time off their otherworldly duties to talk with the veteran San Francisco actor. Actors will be envious of Walker. Others may be skeptical. But it’s impossible not to believe the…

The first American Shakespeare company to claim the distinction of having its entire repertoire booked into London’s West End offers a succinct statement of its artistic philosophy: “To put the shake’ back into Shakespeare.” Indeed, the American RSC Reduced Shakespeare Company, that is does everything succinctly. The three-actor troupe crams all 37 plays plus the…

In ‘Julius Caesar’, William Shakespeare instantly identifies the differences of status and class between the characters. He manages this by using different techniques such as ‘prose’ and ‘blank verse’. The devices help differentiates the character’s class by the way they speak. The low class – commoners – who are called “idle creatures” by the tribunes…

In Elizabethan contexts, women are often portrayed to play a peculiar and often stifled role in society. Considered to be one of the greatest writers in the Elizabethan era, William Shakespeare often uses female characters to assume the roles of somewhat rebellious women in the era. In addition to this, views on women and marriage…

Topic: Additional scene for Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” occurring shortly after Nora has left. Torvald receives a visit from Krogstad. (Scene: Torvald is standing, staring at the door that Nora just walked out of. Behind him, the fireplace is slowly going out. The door knocks then opens, and Krogstad walks in and stands next to…

In this essay I will be examining the two funeral speeches; additionally I will be analysing the content of each; and I will be describing why Anthony was more successful than Brutus in swaying the crowd. The funeral speeches are made by Brutus and Anthony, both for the Caesar’s funeral, I will quickly summarise the…