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71Shakespeare and Film- 10 Things I Hate About You and She's the Man
In response to the trend of transferring classic literature and dramatizations to the cinema, some directors have further attempted to make literature more accessible to America’s youth by...
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61Shakespeare and Film- Cinematography in Michael Hoffmann's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Michael Hoffman’s film production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream exclusively uses close-ups and medium shots, with the exception of two long shots, to limit the viewing pane for the...
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62Response to Shakespeare's King Lear
An underlying concept of King Lear seems to be a struggle between good and evil. For much of the play, evil seems to triumph over good. This begins with King Lear’s appointment of Regan and Goneril to run...
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63Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
As I read Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, my first analysis allowed me to consider the many masks, literal and figurative. In this play, deception clearly plays a significant role. The audience...
0 comments66Shakespeare's Twelfth Night- Gender Roles
When reading Twelfth Night, the most interesting aspect, to me, was the role of gender in love. Many of the characters fall in love with characters, despite their sexes. Orsino declares his love for Viola in...
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64Miscommunication in Diane Glancy's Pushing the Bear
In Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear, she explores the issue of loss of identity for the Native Americans after interaction with Europeans. For many of the Native Americans, and characters in this book,...
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67LeAnne Howe's Shell Shaker- The Cyclical Nature of Life
LeAnne Howe’s novel Shell Shaker interestingly approaches the issues of kinship, cyclical life, making amends, and predestination for the Choctaw people. The story illustrates the idea that an uncorrected...
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64Ella Cara Deloria- Waterlily
I have a bit of a thing for Native American literature, and it goes largely unread by Americans...especially in American Lit classes. This novel is one that maybe a lot of people haven't read, compared to...
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75Oscar Wilde- The Importance of Being Earnest- The Mutually Exclusive Nature of Aristocracy and Leisure
I adore Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray...fabulous. I even chose the proposition scene from The Importance of Being Earnest as a scene to perform in an acting class in College. I also visited Pere...
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69Hamlet's Suffering- Analysis of a Single Word Within a Play
This hub is not an extensive probing into Hamlet. Rather, it's an example of how to use a close reading...a really close reading. This hub only explores the significance of a single word within Shakespeare's...
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