“Hamlet” – Still Debated After All These Years
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“Hamlet” – Still Debated After All These Years: This 6-page essay examines a number of critics’ opinions relevant to some of Shakespeare’s themes in “Hamlet.” Undoubtedly, this play and most all of the Bard’s work will continue to be a prime source of much armchair discourse for additional centuries to come. Bibliography lists 5 sources. SNHamlet.doc
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Paper Title: “Hamlet” – Still Debated After All These Years

“Hamlet” and “Coriolanus” -- Examples of Shakespeare’s Portrayal of Self-Destruction
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This 5 page report discusses the dramatic tone and devices used by Shakespeare in both “Hamlet” and “Coriolanus” is one of bitterness, tinged with a sense of betrayal. He also presents his audiences with characters who are completely self-absorbed. In both tragedies Shakespeare explores the nature and effects of evil that exists in the actions of human beings. The fact that one character is a broody and almost manic Dane while the other is an arrogant and determined Roman soldier is not the point. The point is the connection that exists between power, misperceptions, and betrayal. Mention is also made of the title characters’ mothers and their role. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Paper Title: “Hamlet” and “Coriolanus” -- Examples of Shakespeare’s Portrayal of Self-Destruction

“Hamlet” as the Most Important of Shakespeare’s Plays for 19th Century Romanticists
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This 5 page report explores the idea that “Hamlet” was what literary critic Northrup Frye described as the “central and most significant play, because it dramatized a central preoccupation of the age of Romanticism: the conflict of consciousness and action...No other play has explored the paradoxes of action and thinking about action so deeply.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Paper Title: “Hamlet” as the Most Important of Shakespeare’s Plays for 19th Century Romanticists

“King Lear” – the Best and Worst in Human Nature
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This 3 page paper explores the play “King Lear” and explains how it depicts the best and worst in human nature. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Paper Title: “King Lear” – the Best and Worst in Human Nature

“Macbeth”
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A 5 page paper which discusses several elements in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” No additional sources cited.
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Paper Title: “Macbeth”

“Madness in Hamlet”
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A five page paper which looks at the theme of madness in Hamlet, in relation to Hamlet himself, Ophelia and Claudius, and the different ways in which they react to the pressures and stresses which they suffer in the course of the play. Bibliography lists 2 sources
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Paper Title: “Madness in Hamlet”

“Othello and Sonnet 87”
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A five page paper which looks at the theme of jealousy in Shakespeare’s Othello, and contrasts it with the more mature and rational perspective on emotional relationships which is demonstrated in sonnet 87 (Farewell, thou art too dear …) Bibliography lists 2 sources
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Paper Title: “Othello and Sonnet 87”

“Othello”
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A 5 page paper which examines several elements in the Shakespeare play “Othello.” No additional sources cited.
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Paper Title: “Othello”

“Other” in Shakespeare’s Othello and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
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A 5 page paper which examines the notion of “other” in Shakespeare’s Othello and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. No additional sources cited.
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Paper Title: “Other” in Shakespeare’s Othello and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

“Political issues in Shakespeare”
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A five page paper which looks at some of the social and political issues in Shakespeare, including gender politics and the politics of ambition, with reference to the Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, and The Merchant of Venice.
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Paper Title: “Political issues in Shakespeare”