William Shakespeare

Throughout King Lear (1606), Shakespeare depicts a dark world torn apart by deception, hate, and selfish values of self-social mobility. In Lear’s distribution of his land and power to Albany and Cornwall – husbands to his daughters Goneril and Regan, respectively – the social order is disheveled, and the result is a brewing civil war […]

The film Omkara, the 2006 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello transplants and updates the play to a world of gangster and politicians in the modern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Although Bhardwaj stays true to the essential elements and the basic storyline he merely transports the action from Venice and Cyprus to a rural Indian setting. […]

William Shakespeare is the greatest English writer, who is also known as The Swan of Avon and who brought a great series of innovation in the domain of literature. He wrote 37 plays (comedies, tragedies and histories), 154 sonnets, 2 long narrative poems and other verses. He wrote in lines, even if we speak about […]

Shakespeare’s King Lear Shakespeare is globally regarded as one of the most interesting and creative writers, as well as a storyteller. His stories are always appealing, entertaining, and in some instances, confusing, and the story of is among the ones that end up perplexing the audience. Shakespeare takes us through the life of King Lear […]

The importance of this scene illustrates how truly innocent Desdemona is, innocent of the crime of adultery, which she has been wrongly accused, by her husband, Othello and innocent in regard to the ways of the world. If Desdemona doubts whether women are capable of cheating, this shows how distant she is from committing such […]

In these two stories, the villains played an important role in destroying the happy marriages of the two protagonists. Through their planning and manipulation, they are able to destroy what these people cherish: their relationship with their loved ones. In William Shakespeare’s “Othello”, Lago played an opposing role against Othello’s position. Lago is portrayed as […]

In this extract especially Shakespeare makes their relationship seem like they hate each other but actually deep down they still have feelings for each other but because their last relationship ended badly, they have hidden the remaining feelings they have for each other. Instead, they have an argumentative relationship and both characters insult one another […]

Have you ever Read a good book that was really interesting but the language was hard to understand? I have. For instance, when I’m reading a Shakespeare play, the language is ancient, and you must annotate and take notes, so you could understand it. Despite this, it’s easier to follow a Shakespeare play by watching […]

The play “Macbeth”, was written in 1606 by William Shakespeare in the reign of King James the first. It was used as a piece of political propaganda made to please the King, who was a patron of Shakespeare’s acting company. Shakespeare had written many plays under this King’s reign, however “Macbeth” most clearly reflects the […]

When the majority of readers read a novel, they have some expectations that the themes of the book will be clear to them as they progress. In many online websites, like Sparknotes, Cliff Notes, and Shmoop, there are already many generally accepted themes. Now, when people were asked to identify the focus of the Shakespearean […]