Christopher Marlowe

Duty towards one’s own self is one of the most powerful themes which can be traced in many plays written by Henrik Ibsen, a nineteenth-century dramatist, who is often acclaimed as the father of Modern Drama. This paper argues that to perform one’s duty towards oneself which, according to Ibsen, is to be truthful, one needs to synthesise one’s thoughts, words and deeds. At the initial level, Ibsenian characters lack the unity of thought, word and action which is necessary for responsible living.…

Hero and Leander, Marlowe primarily used Musaeus Grammaticus’s version of the myth, as well as “epistles XVIII and XIX of [Ovid’s] Heroides” as his source material (Keach 86). Like Shakespeare, Marlowe reimagines this classical narrative about love and desire by infusing it with more aggression and sexual conflict. However, the most notable difference is that Marlowe’s poem does not end with the death or “blood” of the titular lovers foreshadowed in the opening (I. 1), as Marlowe himself was…

Henrik Ibsen is one of the most controversial writers ever. Ibsen’s relevance to our times is one of the questions on which no two critics seem to agree. For some, Ibsen has become thoroughly outdated; while, for some others, Ibsen is a dramatist who can never lose his relevance. The paper highlights the fact that Henrik Ibsen, more than anything else, is concerned with the problem of the self, and this is a problem which can never become obsolete. Further, Ibsen shows himself to be way ahead of…

There is reason to believe that William Shakespeare, possibly the greatest writer in the English language, could be a fraud. Even though his name is signed on the collection of works, researchers and analysts have gathered information over the years that opens our eyes to the facts that he was simply unqualified to be the author of this extensive collection of literature. Many have found that Francis Bacon is a much better candidate to claim authorship of these works. Not only did he have…

Shakespeare's plays have been produced for many centuries now. The time it has been done has changed but the words and the feelings in the play have not. Shakespeare was a famous play writer in Queen Elizabeth's time. Many of the things he would put in his plays where influenced on Queen Elizabeth's ways. Now a day when the play is re produced they try and capture that influence and try to relate as much as possible. From Characters to the feelings while producing the play many things are…

Hamlet,one of the most interesting characters in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The protagonist is confronting dilemmas and enduring egregious judgment and pain throughout the play. As the tragic hero, Hamlet is portrayed as a person who has the guts to do it and take the consequences which caused him getting affected and surprised easily by the things around him. Hamlet’s transformation and adaptation about life, death and loss have an enormous change throughout the play. The…

Elizabethan Theatres, And How Theatres Have Changed Theatre, like most things, has evolved over the years, and is vastly different from what it was five hundred years ago. Macbeth by William Shakespeare was written during the Elizabethan era, which had playhouses which are very different from twenty first century theatres. The first Elizabethan playhouse in England was built in 1576, just outside of London’s city boundaries. Simply named The Theatre, this building lead way for The Curtain, The…

Of the considerable number of truths about Shakespeare, one of the most bizarre of all is that, despite the fact that he is viewed as the finest essayist of the English Language that there has ever been, Shakespeare didn't really compose every one of the expressions of some of his plays. Truth be told, a few individuals say that William Shakespeare didn't compose any of his works at all and that William Shakespeare was just a pseudonym that was utilized by some different scholars of his time.…

Shakespeare- Did He Really Write Them All? Little is known about the world-famous playwright William Shakespeare, whose works remain the towering greatness of English literature, centuries after his death. Shakespeare’s plays provided the people of his time as an escape from the monotonous events of day to day life, involving universal themes that are still relevant to audiences today. However, his life is still clouded with mystery and it wasn't until over two centuries later that people began…

The topic of revenge is portrayed over and over in countless works of literature. Revenge is portrayed in the Shakespearean play, Macbeth, as well as in the novel, “Of Mice and Men” which was written by John Steinbeck. In the play Macbeth, revenge is seen throughout the whole text. Revenge is one of the major themes in this play seeing as there are various parts with this topic laced throughout it. The reason why there are countless killings in this play is because when someone sees blood, they…