Essays on Plays

Peter Pan’s novel by J.M. Barry had a lot of movies and plays on stage. Peter Pan is a Scottish novelist-created story. Peter Pan is a naughty kid who can fly and never grows up. As the chief of his group, the Lost Boys, he spends his never-ending childhood enjoying adventures on the small island...

Within the play ‘Hamlet’, Shakespeare utilises the manipulation of characters in order to convey themes such insanity, greed, and love. These themes are all present at some point throughout the play and mainly conveyed by characters such as Hamlet, Claudius and Ophelia. The quote found within the Shakespearean play “Macbeth” “and nothing is but what...

English essay Introduction William Shakespeare was extremely popular as a poet, playwright, and actor. Famous for his plays such as Mcbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. The question that is being asked is from Mcbeth, “and nothing is but what is not”, meaning everything is not as it seems. Throughout Hamlet, that quote can be...

The importance of being earnest is written by playwright and Irish poet Oscar wilde. Did you ever wonder if the way you turned out was affected and Influenced by your name? The Importance of Being Earnest explores the theme of identity and many perspectives of identity. Throughout the play, the subject of names and personalities...

Introduction The diverse use of setting in ‘Faust’ is central to Goethe’s depiction of the protagonist’s quest to discover his life as part of rational, cosmic order. The play’s setting often mirrors Faust himself and becomes an important indicator of his mood, aspirations, and internal conflicts. Equally, the polarities within each setting also reflect Faust’s...

In the play Macbeth Written by William Shakespeare the will Macbeth has to overpower and succeed drives him to the destruction of his life. Throughout the full play Macbeth is going down in his mental state, further and further into insanity. The influential people in his life convince him of many of these bad decisions...

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a romantic comedic play that reflects and explores the social conventions and values of its context. Written during the Elizabethan era, it profoundly challenges gender roles with the cross-dressing of Viola and her aptitude in a task that had been unsuccessfully attempted by men. It also demonstrates how unreliable social status...

 “A midsummer night’s dream” is a play that has liminal spaces between worlds. In the play Shakespeare uses the technique of iambic pentameter to show the parallels between worlds. Assonance and alliteration are used to contribute the comedic factor to the play. Iambic pentameter is one short unstressed syllable and one long stressed syllable, it...

Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare, is a dramatic play that takes place in a time where woman’s rights weren’t considered. The role of a woman during the Elizabethan era was to be quiet, subservient and dependent on men. The original version of the play, by Shakespeare, tends to focus on social status, resulting...

How does George Bernard Shaw use ‘Pygmalion” to explore the challenges of a rapidly changing world? In your response, you should make significant reference to concepts of language, identity, and culture. Introduction: On the death of Queen Victoria, power was transferred to her son, Edward VII marking the end of the Victorian era. Modernism challenged...