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70Dear Kent
Dear Kent, I want to put right all that has gone awry. In your letter, you voiced a fear for my father’s sanity, and I too share that fear. I cannot believe this kingdom has sunk so low! It is unthinkable that my father has lost his grasp on...
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80A Critical Examination of Conflict within Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear
Shakespeare’s tragedies are full of conflict, often focusing on a clash between characters. I propose that these conflicts are very rarely a war between good and evil but rather a clash between two goods, and in this way, Shakespeare’s plays are...
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61The Rose Theatre (Theater)
When you are in London next you can stop by Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre and walk the paths around the floor plan of how it stood in the late 1500s. It’s open on Saturdays, 10-5 local time. The pathways on “The Court,” as its exposed area is...
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72The Formalistic Approach to Shakespeare
This is one of the most important lines of approach which has been especially developed in recent years under the impetus provided by what is known as New Criticism. Here the whole attention is concentrated upon the play as an autonomous unit,...
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61Yes, this is the right class... Could you please find another?
I attended various universities and colleges from the Midwest to California. I didn’t have any real course of study, I was just trying to use all the money my uncle Sam gave me for living on an island for him and studying philosophy. That is a...
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76Irrationality and the Human Condition in The Tragedy of King Lear
The Tragedy of King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s greatest dramatic masterpieces as well as a leading tragic play. Based upon the tale of the legendary king of Britain and drawing upon historical incidents from contemporary political happenings,...
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65Shakespeare: What You Really Should Read, Why You Really Should Read It
Shakespeare is sublime. There's not a human emotion he didn't nail. Whatever you read this year, don't miss out on Shakespeare.
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72The Blindness of "King Lear"
A very important, recurring theme throughout King Lear is blindness. Blindness is usually defined as the inability of the eye to see but, as Shakespeare proves, it can also refer to a mental flaw. Shakespeare uses two important characters in this...
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72Shakespeare Quotes That Resonate
Quotes from Shakespeare that resonate. The lines that Shakespeare penned are still applicable today. How they fit and a bit about them.
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49King Lear
King Lear’s Daughters I guess lots of people know about William Shakespeare’s Tragedy “King Lear”. Yet how many of you know about the true reasons for the turning of his daughters against him? ...
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