Im viktorianischen London des späten 19. Jahrhunderts geht Angst und Schrecken um: Ein Serienkill...

Der Perserkönig Xerxes ist bestrebt, sein nahöstliches Großreich auszubauen. Mit seiner gewaltige...

Der Perserkönig Xerxes ist bestrebt, sein nahöstliches Großreich auszubauen. Mit seiner gewaltige...

In dieser explosiven dokumentarischen Fortsetzung seines Films JFK -Tatort Dallas aus dem Jahr 19...

Your Life Pain Free

The Life of Henry V continues the epic story of Richard II; Henry IV, Part One; and Henry IV, Par...

Despite its title, Henry the Eighth deals with three other, more important stories: the fall of C...

Much Ado About Nothing is a delightful play which pits two intelligent, thinking people against e...

Dust in the Wind

As a boy growing up in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas, I had no objective conception of evi...

It is probably natural that a reader feel sympathy for Desdemona; falsely accused, she suffers so...

Of the five major Shakespearean tragedies-Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and Othel...

I do not know how Covered with Darkness came about. The process of creativity is still a mystery ...

Troilus and Cressida retells the epic story of the Iliad, but with an altered focus.The tale of t...

Henry IV, Part Two as a sequel to or continuation of Henry IV, Part One is disappointing. The res...

King John is quite problematic. As the ending is not a satisfying resolution, the audience is lef...

Dust in the Wind

As an instructor of English 102, First-Year Composition, for more than seventy-five times, I have...

Henry IV, Part One is a rich play: rich in drama and intrigue, political machinations, and comedy...

Of the five major Shakespearean tragedies-Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet,King Lear, and Othell...

In only two plays-The Comedy of Errors and The Tempest--does Shakespeare observe the unities of t...

As You Like It could be termed the archetypal Shakespearean romantic comedy: the lovers retreat t...

Proudfoot and Bennett remind us that 'the authorship of Edward III remains speculative' (89). How...

Neither Venus and Adonis nor the Rape of Lucrece is widely read. Both poems were quite popular du...

When I was a boy in Missouri, I could have visited President Truman as Independence was only a fe...

Rails to Light came about as a result of my reading the book Riding the Rails. I was appalled by ...

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night presents a character who is a literary descendant of Sir John Falstaf...

Titus Andronicus, like Hamlet, is a revenge tragedy but one that 'focuses on violence and horror[...

The Two Gentlemen of Verona doesn't enjoy a high reputation among Shakespeareans. As an early com...

Based on Chaucers The Knights Tale in Canterbury Tales, The Two Noble Kinsmen takes as a motif th...

This collection originated in, and is, an interdisciplinary dialogue. The subject of conversation...

The Days of Thy Youth

Like many writers, I suppose I have an idealized picture of the past, of my youth, when everythin...

Coriolanus is a man afflicted by a tragic flaw: Hubris (Hybris), overweening pride. His thoughts ...

Detective fiction is said to have begun in 1841 with Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murders in the Rue Mo...

I have pondered the contemplative life, wondering how it could be useful or applicable to one in ...

Alexandria Hodgemanrepresents a composite of many people I have known, Catholic and non-Catholic,...

Like Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra is an archetypal love story but of more mature lovers...

Love's Labors Lost is 'widely considered Shakespeare's most intellectually challenging comedy' (B...

The Western has become an archetype for the founding of a great portion of the United States. The...

The Tragedy of Richard the Third presents the tale of a Machiavellian: Richard the Third, the arc...

There are numerous townsites in western Kansas where people tried to build a settlement.They trus...

The Days of Darkness

The Merchant of Venice is problematic.Not only does it present the disparate and unrelated storie...

Among teenagers Romeo and Juliet appears to be the most popular of the Shakespeare tragedies.Perh...

Measure for Measure is 'usually considered one of [Shakespeare's] unpleasant comedies' (Asimov, 6...

One recurrent criticism of the First Part of HVI is its cavalier disregard for chronology and his...

Timon of Athens might be regarded as the ancestor of Moliere's Les Misanthrope-in that Alceste se...