Shakespeare Comedies
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Major Themes of Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Tempest is Shakespeare's most popular comedy, touching on varied themes throughout the course of the story.
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The Minor Characters of Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night has a variety of characters. Alongside the main roles there are smaller characters who still have their own important part to play.
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Character Analysis in Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is a comic play with characters that display intelligence, wit and humour.
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Plot Summary of Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is a comedy, showing the humourous problems caused by disguise and mistaken identity.
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The Universe Within A Midsummer Night's Dream
This article explores how Shakespeare's literary genius captures the hearts of readers and audiences by envisioning a setting that is both magnificent and realistic.
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Worlds of Character in A Midsummer Night's Dream
This article analyses how the intertwining of diverse worlds of characters contribute to creating an atmosphere of dreaming in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Marriages in A Midsummer Night's Dream
This article considers the dramatic role of the three marriages between humans in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the realism of each marriage.
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Jaqueys' All the World's a Stage Soliloquay
Jaques' "All the world's a stage" monologue emphasizes the importance of the theatrical world in the plot of Shakespeare's comedy.
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Merchant of Venice Movie Review
Michael Radford's Merchant of Venice (2004) is the most recent feature film adaptation of the Shakespeare play. Read on for important differences between play and movie.
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The Quality of Mercy Is Strain'd
Portia's "quality of mercy" speech from The Merchant of Venice is a brilliant example of rhetoric, but has troubling overtones of contemporary antisemitism
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Benedick and Speech in Much Ado
Benedick's name suggests Shakespeare's concern in Much Ado About Nothing with "speaking well", and its moral, social and entertaining consequences.
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Names in Twelfth Night
By paying attention to the names Shakespeare gives to his characters, new ways of reading of the Twelfth Night can be opened up.
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Antonio's Fate in Twelfth Night
How a director chooses to interpret Antonio's silence at the end of Twelfth Night can affect the whole resolution of the play.
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Antonio in Twelfth Night
The character of Antonio in Twelfth Night has caused disagreement: is he a bluff comrade of Sebastian, or tormented by a homoerotic attraction?
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Ben Kingsley as Feste
Ben Kingsley played Feste in Trevor Nunn's 1996 film version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, giving a truly engrossing portrayal of an elusive character,
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Feste in Twelfth Night
Feste in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, is an fascinating character: a fool who seems to know more than most of the people around him.
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Malvolio in Twelfth Night
Malvolio, played by Nigel Hawthorne in the Trevor Nunn film of Twelfth Night, is brought down by his own hypocrisy and weakness.
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The Quality of Mercy
Often confused with a soliloquy, Portia's speech "The quality of mercy is not strain'd" is a clever piece of courtoom oratory.
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Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing
Claudio, the idealist lover in Much Ado About Nothing, presents a dilemma for modern readers: is he an impulsive and likeable young man, or an immature misogynist?
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Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing
Dogberry the Constable in Much Ado About Nothing, played by Michael Keaton in Kenneth Branagh's film version, is a richly comic invention.
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A Character Study of Don John
Don John acts as a symbol of discord in Much Ado About Nothing, disrupting the intended wedding of Hero and Claudio. But who is he?
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Love and Friendship in Verona
Though often called a romantic comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona stresses the bonds of male friendship over love, and calls out for a feminist reading.
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Love and Comedy in Verona
Two Gentlemen of Verona provides comic subplots based on love, alongside the more serious romances of the main characters.
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Title of Much Ado About Nothing
The title of "Much Ado About Nothing" is so familiar that we take it for granted. But what does this casual title actually mean?
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Quince and the Mechanicals
The mechanicals, led by Peter Quince and dominated by Bottom, produce a play inside A Midsummer Night's Dream - an ambiguous piece of symbolism.
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