Essays on William Shakespeare

The playwright ‘Twelfth Night’ written by William Shakespeare and the film adaptation ‘She’s the man directed by Andy Fickman, both tackle the idea of love during the duration of the narrative. Shakespeare’s depiction of love is usually seen as an impressive representation of emotion, as…

Shakespeare is undoubtedly one of the greatest playwrights in history and one of the most commonly studied figures in schools’ English literature curriculums all around the world. Quotes such as “ To be or not to be” from Hamlet and “Some are born great, some…

In exploring these two works, Twelfth Night and Othello, we see that deception is of considerable causality in the damnation of the othered characters Malvolio and Othello through significant tokens of a counterfeited letter and an embroidered handkerchief. As both Maria and Iago are aware…

As presented in the brilliant work of William Shakespeare himself, the theme of racism amongst a few other themes was very evident throughout the text. Othello struggled a lot throughout his relationship because he was colored. He was faced with several racial slurs and names…

Shakespeare is known as the most prominent figure and the greatest writer in English Literature. He wrote poems and sonnets during his lifetime but his plays are the ones which are more known and famous among people even today. Shakespeare uniquely portrayed women in his…

The play Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona. It is a story about a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families and this causes tragic results for the main characters in the play, Romeo and Juliet. The events in the play contrast hatred…

The noun “invention,” – stemming from the Latin word; invenire and inventio- indicates a sense of creative license that is withheld by writers, in any form of literature. However definitively, “invention” also implies fabrication and fictionalisation, within poetry and sonnet writing, the poet my use…

According to Meyer, “an extended metaphor is a sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors” (Meyer 926). In William Shakespeare’s sonnet 73 “That time of the year thou mayst in me behold”, the speaker uses…

Despite standing out through the dramatic genre, Shakespeare also turned to the lyric and produced 154 sonnets that are among the most beautiful in all world literature, with diverse themes such as love, time, beauty. The poetic self in the sonnet 73, is described as…

William Shakspere ‘s Sonnet s were first collected in Book volt-ampere. in 1609. Among the most famous of the 154 sonnet s is Sonnet XVIII, which includes the logical argument, ‘Shall I comparison thee to a summer time ‘s day light ?’ With three exception,…