"The prince, who is the hero both of the comick and tragick part, is a young man of great abilities and violent passions, whose sentiments are right, though his actions are wrong ; whose virtues are obscured by- negligence, ...

The memory of a lost earthly paradise remains with fallen man, who seeks to regain Eden at least in part even in this world. This instinctive longing is perhaps the basis for that vast body of literature termed "pastoral." ...

Today some schools do not include in their curricula the plays of Shakespeare; but we who know the wholeheartedness and wholesomeness of Shakespeare to satisfy man in all walks of life cannot but deplore this omission. Are ...

An Intense interest in Shakespeare has possessed the writer ever since she took a course in the rapid reading of hie plays ease years ago. Learning of this interest Rev. Paul F. Smith, English advisor, suggested the topic ...

The Renaissance with its enthusiasm for all things classical made a profound Impression on the literature of England. This is especially true in regard to drama. Plautus, Terence, and Seneca came to be studied in the English ...

Shakespeare had his favorite words. One of them was "heaven." This is evidenced in Bartlett’s Concordance to Shakespeare, which lists three hundred nine quotations containing "heaven." It is enlightening to read these ...

William Shakespeare, of whom Ben Jonson said, "He was not of an age, but for all time!" was, as is any author, a product of his own era. In his works are reflected the manners, morals, and ideas of the Elizabethan period. ...

Shakespeare’s art has teen the subject oi intensive study since the seventeenth century, scholars have paid tribute to Shakespeare the lyricist, Shakespeare the dramatist, Shakespeare the poet, wo phase of his varied genius ...

The best laid plans of mica and men "gang oft aglee"; therefore, it is advisable to proceed toward a final goal with definite objectives. In writing this thesis it has been necessary to consider a two-fold aspect of modern ...

The lyrical strain in Shakespeare's early drama is "brought out "by Chambers in his statement that |"With Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, it (Richard the Second) belongs to the period of a deliberate literary ...