Taming Of The Shrew vs. Romeo & Juliet / Marital Choice
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An 8 page paper looking at William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet. The writer notes that whereas Juliet, initially the more socially-conventional of the two, took a forceful and active hand in choosing her own mate, Kate the Shrew found herself forced into not only a marriage but a role in life which did not reflect her personality, with a man so unlike the person she would have been expected to marry that her personality was altered to fit. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Romshrew.wps

Taming vs. Much Ado # 2 / Use Of Dramatic
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A 3 page analysis of the use of dramatic irony in "Much Ado About Nothing" and "The Taming of the Shrew." The writer argues that the use of dramatic irony in "Much Ado About Nothing" is more subtle then in "The Taming of the Shrew," and that the more obvious use of dramatic irony in "Shrew" facilitated the play's ribald nature and broad humor. No additional sources cited.
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Taming vs. Much Ado / Shakespearean Pairs
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A 3 page analysis of "Much Ado About Nothing" and "The Taming of the Shrew," which focuses on Shakespeare's frequent use of pairs, i.e. two plots, two female leads, two male leads, etc. and how this structural device was used both to progress the plot and also to aid characterization. No additional sources cited.
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The Page Comes to Life / Shakespeare Observed
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A 5 page paper on the recent book by Samuel Crowl. It shows how Samuel Crowl focuses on the performance of Shakespeare as opposed to the solitary explication of it, and shows how very different these two modes of writing are, and what different demands they make on both the writer and his 'audience'. No additional sources cited.
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The Postmodern Shakespeare
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A 10 page analysis of the validity of the opinions of philosopher Stanley Cavell regarding Shakespeare's five greatest tragedies -- Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. The paper concludes that Cavell's insights, contained in his book Discovering Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare, can be appropriately applied to Shakespeare, because Shakespeare's mindset was very similar to that experienced by many people in the late twentieth century -- as well as aberrant for the early seventeenth. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Price Of Love In Shakespeare's Comedies
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A 10 page analysis of 4 of Shakespeare's comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, and All's well that ends well. The writer discusses these plays from the standpoint of the obstacles which the lover's had to overcome in order to reach a happy ending. The writer argues that these obstacles, as well as making a good story, also served to illustrate the purity and high spiritual level of the lovers' devotion. No secondary sources cited.
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The Search For Meaning In King Lear & Macbeth
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A 6 page paper looking at these two Shakespearean plays in terms of twentieth-century psychologist Viktor Frankl's theories on the relationship of suffering and meaning in life. The paper concludes that both Shakespeare and Frankl show that without a sense of meaning whose ground is in the self, life has no meaning at all. Bibliography lists four sources.
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The Tempest and All's Well That Ends Well / Liberation & Coercion
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A 6 page paper comparing pairs of characters in these two Shakespearean plays. Specifically, the paper compares the way Prospero restricts Miranda's freedom versus the way Helena entraps Bertram, and contrasts the two plays' very different resolutions. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Villains in Shakespeare
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A 5 page paper which argues that the villains in "Hamlet," "Richard II," "Othello," and "The Tempest" are made more villainous by the apparent weaknesses in the heroes. The primary Shakespearean work focused on is "Hamlet." Bibliography lists 8 additional sources.
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Works of Shakespeare / The Importance of Reviewing Critical Literature
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In this 5 page essay, the writer recounts how remarkably important critical sources (i.e., books, articles, etc;) were in helping them to understand various plays of Shakespeare and truly appreciate them. The writer presents what they "got" from plays like Macbeth, Othello, & King Lear on their own, and then to what subtle points other authors helped them open their eyes. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Shakelit.wps