The Staple of News is Jonsons proactive literary response to the emerging news industry of the early seventeenth century This essay attempts to appreciate Jonsons critical attitude to his contemporary journalism which has resonance for our own era as well In analyzing the play, the essay carries out a tripartite dialogue between Jonsons dramatic text, Habermass ph..
Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra is a transitional play from his great tragedies to the late romances In his last plays Shakespeare represents his expanded and comprehensive vision of life with his centrifugal images and expansive symbolism Thematically this vision is dramatized by the achievement of the virtue of patience by his long-suffering and meandering sea-tosse..
This article aims to understand the protagonists other-ness in Othello in terms of race, religion, culture, and geography Even though Othello isnt a Venetian, hes a nobleman in that society It mainly owes to his prowess as a full soldier Still its ironical that he protects the Christian world as a general Because he is from Moor, a muslim world He marries a Venetian..
Lee YoonTaek can be regarded as the representative playwright and director of Korea in adapting Shakespeares works with Korean traditional style He, in his plays and performances, has tried to restore traditional theatre by connecting Shakespeare works with Gut and traditional entertainments Lee YounTaek has supported Oh TaeSuks theatrical movement of Korean Ra..
This paper tries to analyze the feature of ambiguity of Euripides female characters through Medea, Hecuba, and Bacchae, with the female ambiguity fluctuating between witch and heroine The heroic females are, featured as gods thyrsus, challenging the corruption of anomos(lawless, godless) society, a society that is, with a patriarchal bias, putting women on the other ..
The starting point of this study is Renans idea that forgetting is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation and the basis of national identity is not memory but amnesia This study investigates the above issue focusing on the way how the monarch tries to control historical memory to answer traumatic loss and establish national unity in Shakespeares King Henry IV, Part ..