Essays On Play

Shakespeare concludes twelfth night by providing a resolution for certain characters, while leaving others with less satisfying endings that may not fully appease the audience. Viola’s initial challenge is her belief that her brother has passed away. ‘My brother, he is in Elysium.’ (A1S2L4) In Elizabethan times, Elysium was interpreted as ‘heaven,’ the realm where […]

Twelfth Night, also known as What You Will, is a romantic comedy penned by William Shakespeare in the 17th century. It has garnered immense popularity and is regarded as one of Shakespeare’s foremost artistic achievements. This essay aims to delve into the reasons behind Twelfth Night’s status as one of Shakespeare’s most beloved and frequently […]

According to Northrop Frye in The Educated Imagination, literary conventions are typical patterned ways of writing that happen repeatedly over time in the world of literature. To write stories, the writers imitate other people’s work, which they have read before. Therefore literary conventions become commonplace as a traditional way of writing. Also, Frye has mentioned […]

Shakespeare manipulates the audience using a variety of different techniques and tries to make the audience feel certain emotions towards characters. The play Twelfth Night is centred on love, being someone you are not and social class. The play itself is set in the land of Illyria and has two grand households; the heads of […]

Twelfth Night is an intriguing mix of emotions. It combines the sadness of a brother and sister being apart, the excitement of falling in love, and the humor of gentle sarcasm and irony. The play concludes with a joyous ending where the siblings are reunited and find love with their desired partners. Along the way, […]

The only reference to Twelfth Night during Shakespeare’s own lifetime is to a performance on February 2, 1602. A law student named John Manningham wrote in his diary about a feast he attended at the Middle Temple in London where he was a law student and where “we had a play called Twelfth Night; Or, […]

A somewhat topsy-turvy presentation is evident throughout this play: Dogberry and the Watch are very much the “third string” to this play’s bow, and yet have captured the greatest place in public imagination. Likewise, on the romantic front, we may say that it is the second-bow players who have the next most prominent place in […]

In William Shakespeare’s play, Much Ado About Nothing, there are many themes present and one of those is the theme of love. Philia, Eros, and Agape are the three types of love present in the play and are what represent the theme of love. These three types of love, Philia, Eros, and Agape are expressed […]

The play Much Ado About Nothing uses the concept of making order from disorder in a variety of ways, through the writings of its infamous author, William Shakespeare. The comedy is founded on a societal view of marriage, courting, hierarchy and ‘noting’. In the play, there are several main sources of disorder, the outstanding one […]

Much Ado About Nothing is a play set in c1598 in England. The author of this play, William Shakespeare has used various literary techniques to construct and develop its characters. This essay will analyse some of the techniques including tone, character-specific dialogue, dramatic irony, soliloquy, and symbolism that has been used by the author to […]

The theme appearance versus reality or the image of disguise has been very apparent in some of Shakespeare’s masterpieces. Shakespeare uses both the external or overt image of disguise and the element of deceptions and illusions. On his comedy play, As You Like It, clothing and manner of bearing that suggest pretense seems to be […]

In this essay the ideas I will be exploring is the contrasts between a character and how they change throughout the book and the contrasts between different sets of characters. The main protagonists in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ are Cluadio, Don John and Benedick and the main protagonists in animal farm are Napoleon, Snowball and […]

Shakespeare’s play “Much Ado About Nothing” conveys the typical attributes of an English comedy although it is set in Messina, Italy. He manages to present the many difficult aspects of love and romance, as well as portraying the patriarchal society, whilst still keeping the light heartedness that comedy’s of that era showed. The play is […]

Conventionally, feminism has little correlation with Shakespearean comedies; however, Claire McEachern attempts to address this topic with some degree of success in her article published in the Shakespeare Quarterly entitled “Fathering Herself: A Source Study of Shakespeare’s Feminism”.The author herself reveals the adversity face by feminists up against Shakespeare’s male-dominated world by admitting, “Certainly, in […]

One of the most of import facets in “Much Ado About Nothing” is the narrative of love. It is frequently the footing for what transpires throughout the drama and can most easy be seen through the relationships between Hero and Claudio. and Benedick and Beatrice. During the drama the reader learns a batch about these […]

Explore the importance of disguise and deception in Much Ado about Nothing. Are they merely effective plot devices? Much Ado about Nothing was written by William Shakespeare in 1598, towards the middle of his career and during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Disguise and deception are used to great comic effect, as well as to […]

Pretty much all of the key events or turning points in Much Ado about Nothing happen because characters deceive each other. Shakespeare uses deception as a way of structuring the plot because it often results in comedic situations and, after all, Much Ado about Nothing is a comedy. From the very beginning Shakespeare introduces the […]

This play is more then just a story about two young lovers, but also a story about betrayal and trickery. The characters that address these themes are Beatrice and Benedick and Don Pedro. The themes of love and betrayal play a big role in the play, Both Beatrice and Benedick are strong-willed, intelligent characters, whofear […]

A dramatic convention is the specific actions or techniques the actor, writer or director has employed to create a desired dramatic effect/style. Dramatic conventions are significant in Shakespeare’s plays as they created dramatic irony and they got the audience involved, making them feel like they were a part of the trick or lie. Dramatic conventions […]

According to my perspective, ‘The Winter’s Tale’ is a drama centered on the fallibility of humans, acknowledging their potential to err and the difficulty of self-forgiveness. The play accentuates how time can act as a catalyst for remedying and rectifying. Throughout the plot, Leontes embodies the majority of these motifs distinctly. Although Leontes is the […]

Refer to Act one, scene five Describe the relationship between King Lear and his Fool in this passage. How is the relationship developed in King Lear as a whole? In Shakespeare’s “King Lear”, the relationship between Lear and the fool is crucial to the development of the character of Lear and also to many themes […]

What is the Significance of the role of the Fool in ‘King Lear’? `The role of the Fool in ‘King Lear’ is essential to the cause of expressing knowledge and understanding of the plot, and the themes and ideas which Shakespeare used to express his views on the context and nature of the whole idea […]