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. ...

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 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." ...

If we would appreciate the writings of Shakespeare, if we would read him with comprehension, if we would grasp the full import of his thoughts, it is well not to ignore the ideas of his age, since these are naturally ...

One of the most effective methods of studying any writer is to read his works in the order in which they were written. Custom in literary history sanctions the practice of studying an author period by period. When a literary ...

This thesis is the result of a special interest aroused in the reading of the continental plays of Shakespeare during the course of a study of all his plays. The impression received from the mere reading was that the ...