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"Mere Madness": A Study of the Portrayal of Women's Mental Health in Shakespeare's Plays
In this paper, I study the suicides of Ophelia from Hamlet and Lady Macbeth from Macbeth, and point out how their words and actions correlate with what was called madness at the time, but what we understand as depression ...
A Tale of Three Butterflies: Etymology and Entomology in Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" (thesis)
To locate the butterfly's importance in Coriolanus, I will trace the butterfly's heritage from two perspectives - first as a word in English, and secondly as a literary symbol in the cultural tradition spanning Hebrew, ...
Shakespeare's Folly: A Methodology of Fooling (thesis)
In Feste, Touchstone, and Lear's fool, we see the care Shakespeare bestowed on these characters. While neither particularly romantic nor overly dramatic figures, their role significantly aids the dramatic progression of ...
Quantifying Love: Shakespeare's Comedies and Modern Adult Attachment Theory
By looking at Shakespeare's comedies within the framework of modem adult attachment theory, I hope to validate the practice of both psychological and psychoanalytic readings of his works; to provide a new way of doing so; ...
The Story of Cleopatra in English Literature
Perhaps no story is better known than the story of Cleopatra. Even the ordinary child would have a pretty definite idea of beauty if someone would say to him that such and such a girl is as beautiful as Cleopatra. In spite ...
Shakespeare and Succession Crisis: Shakespeare's Reimagining of Elizabeth I's Legacy in Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, and King Lear (thesis)
If Shakespeare's works can tell us anything, it is that the Elizabethan time was one filled with as much uncertainty as our own. There was no surety that we would all remember Elizabeth as the greatest queen in English ...