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This guide is designed for Harvard students and faculty doing research on Shakespeare. Because of the vast number and range of Shakespeare studies, this guide is only an introduction to the field, a survey that is nowhere near exhaustive. The principle of selection was that "less is more": What are the essential readings someone needs to know about to begin research on a topic? It's usually not much more than a couple of classic studies and one or two recent entries in the discussion.

This guide includes reliable editions and key scholarship as well as useful databases, reference works, and research tools (Shakespeare studies is such a vast field that you need a research guide to the research guides). Most of the below items are specific to Shakespeare studies, but sometimes resources used for literary studies more generally are included if they frequently arise when researching Shakespeare. Efforts have been made to provide links, including links to full access for Harvard affiliates, whenever possible.

• Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan (Eds.), The New Oxford Shakespeare (2016)
• Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, and Katharine Eisaman Maus (Eds.), The Norton Shakespeare (3rd ed., 2015)
• The Arden Shakespeare Series
• The Pelican Shakespeare Series
• The Norton Shakespeare Series
• The Shakespeare in Performance Series
• World Shakespeare Bibliography   [ Harvard Access]
• The MLA International Bibliography   [ Harvard Access]

Dictionaries

• Oxford English Dictionary   [Harvard Access]
• Lexicons of Early Modern Englis h  [Harvard Access]
• Ben and David Crystal,  Shakespeare’s Words  (2002)
• Stanley Wells,  A Dictionary of Shakespeare  (2 nd  ed., 2005)
• Gordon Williams,  A Glossary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Language  (1997)

Concordances

• Marvin Spevack, The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare (1973)
• Open Source Shakespeare
• Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2001) [  Harvard Access   ]
• David Scott Kastan, A Companion to Shakespeare (1999)
• Andrew Dickson, The Rough Guide to Shakespeare (2005; revised 2009)
• Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard, A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works (2003)
• Samuel Crowl, Shakespeare and Film: A Brief Norton Guide (2008)
• Arthur F. Kinney (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (2012)
• The Cambridge Companions
• Margreta De Grazia and Stanley Wells (Eds.), The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (2nd ed., 2011) [  Harvard Access ]
• Claire McEachern (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (2nd Ed., 2013) [  Harvard Access ]
• Alexander Leggatt (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy (2001) [  Harvard Access ]
• Michael Hattaway (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays (2002) [  Harvard Access ]
• Catherine M. S. Alexander (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays (2009) [  Harvard Access ]
• Patrick Cheney (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry (2007) [  Harvard Access ]
• Ton Hoenselaars (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists (2012) [  Harvard Access ]
• Stanley Wells and Sarah Stanton (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage (2002) [ Harvard Access ]
• Russell Jackson (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film (2nd ed., 2007) [  Harvard Access ]
• Robert Shaughnessy (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture (2007) [  Harvard Access ]

Annotated Bibliographies

• David Bevington, "William Shakespeare," in  Oxford Bibliographies: Renaissance and Reformation   [ Harvard Access ]
• Andrew Hadfield and Amy Kenny, "William Shakespeare," in  Oxford Bibliographies: British and Irish Literature   [ Harvard Access ]
• Larry S. Champion, The Essential Shakespeare: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies (1986; 2nd ed., 1993)
• The Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies
• David Bevington, "English Renaissance Drama," in  Oxford Bibliographies: Renaissance and Reformation   [ Harvard Access ]
• Shakespeare Quarterly  [ Harvard Access  ]
• Shakespeare: Journal of the British Shakespeare Association   [ Harvard Access ]
• Shakespeare Studies  [  Harvard Access ]
• Shakespeare Jahrbuch  [  Harvard Access ]
• Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation  [  Harvard Access ]
• Shakespeare Bulletin  [  Harvard Access ]
• Shakespeare Survey
• Shakespeare International Yearbook  
• Multicultural Shakespeare

Associations

• Shakespeare Association of America
• British Shakespeare Association
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Shakespeare's Globe

Life and Times

• S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life (1977; revised 1987)
• Katherine Duncan-Jones, Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life (2001)
• Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (2004)
• James Shapiro, 1599:A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2005)
• David Bevington, Shakespeare and Biography (2010)
• E.M.W. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World-Picture (1943)
• J. D. Cox and D. S. Kastan, A New History of Early English Drama (1997)
• John Morrill (Ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor & Stuart Britain (1996)
• John Cannon (Ed.),  The Oxford Companion to British History (2009)
• Geoffrey Bullough, Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957–73)
• Kenneth Muir, The Sources of Shakespeare’s Plays (1977)
• Stuart Gillespie (Ed.), Shakespeare’s Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sources (2001)

Language and Style

• Sister Miriam Joseph, Shakespeare’s Use of the Arts of Language (1947)
• M. M. Mahood, Shakespeare’s Wordplay (1957)
• Richard A. Lanham, The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance (1976)
• Russ McDonald,  Shakespeare and the Arts of Language  (2001)
• David Crystal,  Think on my Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language (2008)
• Peter Mack, Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare (2010)
• Lawrence Danson, Shakespeare’s Dramatic Genres (2000)
• Anthony R. Guneratne (Ed.),  Shakespeare and Genre: From Early Modern Inheritances to Postmodern Legacies (2011)
• C. L. Barber, Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy (1959, revised 1972)
• Northrop Frye, A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance (1965)
• Franquois Laroque, Shakespeare’s Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage (1993)
• A. C. Bradley, Shakespearian Tragedy (1904)
• Stanley Cavell, Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare (1987)
• Paul Kottman, Disinheriting the Globe: Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (2009)
• E. M. W. Tillyard, Shakespeare’s History Plays (1944)
• Lily B. Campbell, Shakespeare’s Histories (1947)
• Peter Saccio, Shakespeare’s English Kings (1977, revised 2000)
• Phyllis Rackin, Stages of History: Shakespeare’s English Chronicles (1990)
• Romances/Tragicomedies
• F.S. Boas, “The Problem Plays,” in Shakespeare and His Predecessors (1896)
• Russ McDonald, Shakespeare’s Late Style (2006)
• Joel Fineman, Shakespeare’s Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets (1986)
• Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1997)

Stephen  Orgel and Sean Keilen (Eds.),  Shakespeare’s Poems (1999)

Textual Issues

• Textual Editing
• Margreta de Grazia,  Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus  (1991)
• Leah Marcus, Unediting the Renaissance (1996)

Sonia  Massai,  Shakespeare and the Rise of the Editor (2007)

• David Scott Kastan, Shakespeare and the Book (2001)
• Lucas Erne,  Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013)
• Ron Rosenbaum, The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups (2006)
•  Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney (Eds.),  Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship (2012)
• The Authorship Question
• Jonathan Hope, The Authorship of Shakespeare’s Plays (1994)
• Brian Vickers, Shakespeare, Co-Author (2002)
• James Shapiro,  Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?  (2011)
• The Shakespeare Authorship Page

The Critical Tradition

• Brian Vickers, Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage (1974–81)
• Jonathan Bate, The Romantics on Shakespeare (1992)
• Ann Thompson and Sasha Roberts, Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900 (1997)
• Michael Dobson, The Making of the National Poet (1992)
• Michael Taylor (Ed.), Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century (2001)
• John Gross, After Shakespeare (2003)

Shakespeare and ...

• Shakespeare and English Literature
• Lukas Erne, Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003)
• Shakespeare and Drama
• Anne Righter, Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play (1962)
• Shakespeare and Literary Theory
• Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman (eds.), Shakespeare and the Question of Theory (1985)
• Alternative Shakespeares (3 vols.: 1985, 1996, and 2007)
• Jonathan Gil Harris, Shakespeare and Literary Theory (2010)
• Shakespeare and the Classics
• Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare and Ovid (1994)
• Heather James, Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire (1997)
• Charles Martindale and A. B. Taylor (Eds.),  Shakespeare and the Classics (2004)
• Shakespeare and Philosophy
• Arthur F. Kinney, Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle’s Legacy and Shakespearean Drama (2006)
• A. D. Nuttall, Shakespeare the Thinker (2007)
• Jennifer Bates and Richard Wilson (Eds), Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy (2014)
• Shakespeare and Politics
• Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield (Eds.), Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism (1994)
• Louis Montrose, The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre (1996)
• Andrew Hadfield, Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005)
• Shakespeare and Law
• Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum, Richard Strier (Eds.),  Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions (2013)
• Andrew Zurcher,  Shakespeare and Law (2014)
• Shakespeare and Religion
• Jonathan Dollimore, Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (1984)
• Allison Shell, Shakespeare and Religion (2010)
• Shakespeare and Psychology
• Ernest Jones, Hamlet and Oedipus (1949)
• Norman Holland, Psychoanalysis in Shakespeare (1966)
• Julia Reinhard Lupton and Kenneth Reinhard, After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (1992)
• Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998)
• Shakespeare and Race
• James Shapiro, Shakespeare and the Jews (1996)
• Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman,  ‘The Tempest’ and its Travels (2000)
• Ania Loomba, Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism (2002)
• Shakespeare and Gender
• Juliet Dusinberre, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women (1975)
• Patricia Parker, Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property (1987)
• Janet Adelman, Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare’s Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest (1992)
• Stephen Orgel, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England (1996)
• Bruce Smith, Shakespeare and Masculinity (2000)
• Shakespeare and Sexuality
• Jonathan Goldberg, Queering the Renaissance (1994)
• Bruce R. Smith, Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England: A Cultural Poetics (1994)
• Madhavi Menon (Ed.),  Shakesqueer:  A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (2001)
• Shakespeare and the Arts
• W. Moelwyn Merchant, Shakespeare and the Artist (1959)
• Jane Martineau (Ed.), Shakespeare in Art (2003)
• Tarnya Cooper, Searching for Shakespeare (2006)
• Shakespeare and Music
• David Lindley, Shakespeare and Music (2006)
• Julie Sanders, Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings (2007)
• Shakespeare and Dance
• Alan Brissenden,  Shakespeare and the Dance  (1981)
• Shakespeare and Modernity
• Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964)
• Richard Halpern, Shakespeare Among the Moderns (1997)
• Marjorie Garber,  Shakespeare and Modern Culture (2008)

Performance

• Early Modern Performance
• E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage (1923)
• Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage, 1574–1642 (Fourth Edition, 2009)
• Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London (Third Edition, 2004)
• Modern Performance
• J. R. Mulryne , ‎ Margaret Shewring , ‎and  Andrew Gurr (Eds.),  Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt  (1997)
• Jonathan Bate and Russell Jackson (eds.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage (revised 2001)
• The Actors on Shakespeare Series
• Film and Television Performance
• Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt, Shakespeare, The Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV and Video (1997)
• Kenneth S. Rothwell, A History of Shakespeare on Screen (1999, revised 2004)
• Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray, Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (2006)
• Barbara Hodgdon, The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations (1998)
• Ton Hoenselaars (Ed.), Shakespeare and the Language of Translation (2004)

Internet Resources

• Shakespeare Magazine
• The Shakespeare Standard
• Shakespeare Post
• Folger Online Resources
• Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet
• Internet Shakespeare Editions
• Royal Shakespeare Company’s Online Resources
• Shake Sphere
• Play Shakespeare
• Encyclopedia Britannica’s Guide to Shakespeare
• The British Library, Shakespeare in Quarto
• The Furness Collection
• JSTOR, Understanding Shakespeare
• Hamlet Works
• Shakespeare’s Globe, The Globe Player
• The English Short-Title Catalogue
• Early English Books Online
• Records of Early English Drama
• The British Universities Film and Video Council, The International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio
• Shakespeare Documented
• Shakespeare Unlimited
• LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection
• Furness Theatrical Image Collection
• Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive
• Royal Shakespeare Company YouTube Channel
• Globe Theatre YouTube Channel
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Kanopy Shakespeare Series
• MIT Global Shakespeares
• Theatre in Video
• Shakespeare Across the Disciplines
• Shakespeareana
• Public Shakespeare

A Guide To Writing Shakespeare Essays, Including Pitfalls & Tips

William Shakespeare is undoubtedly one of the most significant personalities of the world and culture in particular. This dramatist is considered to be an inventor of literary English language, an inventor of modern theater, and the greatest poet in the history of England. Starting in the 15th century, Shakespeare’s poems and plays have been published in a lot of countries and translated into almost all languages of the world. It is no wonder that students have to write a Shakespeare essay despite their disciplines and specialization. The assignments vary. You might get a task to analyze the sonnets or a play of a famous playwright and writer, write a book report, or say some words about his life in a Shakespeare biography essay. No matter what is your writing about, experts from  ProHighGrades  collected some ideas and essential tips that will help.

How to Write a Shakespeare Biography Essay

If you are to write essays about the background of a great author, you need to know his biography, and the peculiarities of the time he lived in. Here are some ideas:

• Describe the town he was born and lived. Stratford-upon-Avon was a small English town, and his family was among the noble ones. You can analyze the primal education and the reasons to move to London.
• Literature resources give a little knowledge of young Shakespeare. No one knows the real day of birth. The authors know he was baptized in April. History did not save much about his school or university education. The period which starts in the year 1585 and finishes in 1593 is called “the lost years of Shakespeare.” An excellent attempt to analyze and make suggestions concerning his real life and a search for additional facts will amaze the professors.
• You can analyze the relationship between Shakespeare and other people. Some works and pages contain suggestions about his love, friends, etc. A good Shakespeare biography essay will try to study the stories related to the company surrounding him. Study the writers he mailed.
• Finally, his last years and death are covered in mystery as well. You can try to find a reason why Shakespeare left a big part of his property to his daughter Susanna. Write about a real reason to move back to Stratford.

A good story about a simple man, people to follow him, the political and historical circumstances and terms, the rights of a human of Shakespeare’s society, popular suggestions, and references to his biography from other sources deserve to appear in an excellent Shakespeare essay.

How to Write an Essay About Shakespeare’s Works

Everybody read the author. Students compose tons of writings, where they give information about his collection of works. In order to claim some originality and score free points on exclusiveness, you need to consider many things:

• All the essays about Shakespeare’s literature are written. People wrote about the classic plays after his sonnet or plots. Scholars read, search, and research the significance of his works in almost every paper. You need something contemporary. New plays and interpretations of the texts appear today (for example, a fresh Hamlet play with Benedict Cumberbatch). New movies come from Hollywood and other countries. Take them into account. Many original Shakespeare essay topics are reserved for you
• If you are in despair, choose a way that worked for centuries. Analyze the title of a particular poem or play. A Midsummer Night’s Dream , the plays entitled by names ( Romeo and Juliet , Macbeth , Much Ado About Nothing and others are a reason to write a good, short essay about William Shakespeare.
• A good idea is to analyze the characters of Shakespeare. His plays are not all full of action, but characters are deep. Conflicts, emotions, experience, and background stand behind every one. To make a Shakespeare paper better, reading work is not enough. Try to watch the performance of actors from plays and movies. Usually, they do not make an exact copy of the text but bring the new interpretation.
• Good Shakespeare essay examples choose famous critics for referencing. A catchy quote or a properly referenced idea will make your essay worth money and effort. Remember that the question you ask in the Shakespeare paper must find its answer despite the length of a paper, and a number of essay pages needed.
• Adjust your essay to a discipline. In every Shakespeare text, you can find something for a history, sociology, culture, linguistics, psychology, arts, mythology, and literature essay.

Shakespeare was not a simple person and now has a truly global identity. His impact on his and further times are great. Many people study him, and increasingly significant numbers will no doubt do so in the future. You can also count on the guys from EditProofRead to check out your paper to make sure it’s good.

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100+ Shakespeare Essay Topics

The enigmatic William Shakespeare remains one of the most studied literary figures, and writing essays on his comprehensive works can be as enlightening as it is challenging. At WriteOnDeadline, we understand the complexities and subtleties involved in crafting compelling essays about Shakespeare’s compositions. Therefore, we are here to assist you in navigating this journey through selecting intriguing topics and offering a helping hand in bringing your Shakespeare essay to life.

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What is a Shakespeare Essay?

A Shakespeare essay is a scholarly composition that explores the various aspects of Shakespeare’s works, including his plays, sonnets, and other poetic works. These essays can delve into themes like tragedy, love, betrayal, leadership, and supernatural elements, to name a few, all frequent in Shakespeare’s writings. Analyzing the historical context, linguistic techniques, character development, and unique plot twists are also integral parts of a Shakespeare essay, requiring a deep understanding of literature, Renaissance culture, and, importantly, Elizabethan English.

Choosing the Perfect Shakespeare Essay Topic: A Quick Guide

Embarking on the journey of writing a Shakespeare essay involves first selecting a topic that is not only engaging but also offers ample avenues for research and analysis. Here’s a quick guide on making this crucial choice:

• Passion Meets Relevance: Choose a theme or character from Shakespeare’s works that intrigues you the most. Your passion for the subject will fuel your research and writing process.
• Scope for Exploration: Opt for a topic that allows multiple perspectives and interpretations. The richness of Shakespeare’s work lies in its complexity and the myriad ways it can be understood.
• Resource Availability: Ensure there are sufficient resources and scholarly materials available for your chosen topic. The depth of your analysis will largely depend on the quality of the research you conduct.
• Originality is Key: While Shakespeare’s works have been discussed extensively, strive to find a unique angle or an under-represented theme that will make your essay stand out.

Captivating Shakespeare Essay Topics Lists

Delving into the world of Shakespeare requires a guide to the possible paths one can explore. Below are unique and engaging topics that can be the foundation of insightful essays.

Analyzing the Tragedies

• The manifestation of political power in “Macbeth.”
• Exploring the theme of revenge in “Hamlet.”
• The role of fate and free will in the tragedy of “Romeo and Juliet.”
• Moral dilemmas faced by characters in “King Lear.”

Delving into the Comedies

• Gender disguises and their implications in “Twelfth Night.”
• The concept of love in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
• Analyzing the comedic elements in “Much Ado About Nothing.”
• Portrayal of friendship in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.”

The Histories and Their Relevance

• Historical truths versus artistic license in “Richard III.”
• Exploring national identity in “Henry V.”
• The role of prophecy and divination in “Julius Caesar.”
• Leadership qualities depicted in “Henry IV, Part 1.”

Unraveling the Romances

• The supernatural elements in “The Tempest.”
• Realism and idealism in “The Winter’s Tale.”
• Exploration of forgiveness and reconciliation in “Cymbeline.”
• Depictions of loss and redemption in “Pericles.”

Sonnets and Poems

• The theme of immortality in Shakespeare’s sonnets.
• Shakespeare’s depiction of love in his sonnets.
• Analysis of narrative techniques in “The Rape of Lucrece.”
• The role of symbolism in “Venus and Adonis.”

Special Topics

• Shakespeare’s influence on modern literature.
• The relevance of Shakespeare in today’s world.
• Shakespeare’s portrayal of female characters.
• The use of soliloquies in Shakespeare’s plays.

Shakespeare’s Worldview

• Shakespeare’s perception of the human experience.
• The idea of mortality in Shakespeare’s plays.
• How Shakespeare’s personal life influenced his work.
• The importance of nature in Shakespeare’s literature.
• Social hierarchies and class distinctions in Shakespearean plays.

Portrayal of Relationships

• Familial bonds in “King Lear.”
• Love versus infatuation in “Romeo and Juliet.”
• Friendship dynamics in “The Merchant of Venice.”
• Manipulative relationships in “Othello.”
• Power struggles in marital relationships throughout Shakespeare’s plays.

Villains and Antagonists

• The psychological profile of Iago in “Othello.”
• Lady Macbeth: Power, ambition, and guilt.
• Richard III’s quest for power and its implications.
• The role of jealousy in creating villains in Shakespeare’s works.
• Aaron the Moor’s malevolence in “Titus Andronicus.”

Supernatural Elements

• The importance of the Three Witches in “Macbeth.”
• The role of ghosts and apparitions in “Hamlet.”
• Prophecies and their influences in Shakespeare’s plays.
• The supernatural as a reflection of human psychology.
• Ariel vs. Caliban: Contrasting representations of the supernatural in “The Tempest.”

Philosophical Insights

• To be or not to be: An exploration of existentialism in “Hamlet.”
• The notion of predestined fate in “Romeo and Juliet.”
• The philosophy of dreams in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
• The concept of time in Shakespeare’s sonnets.
• Views on ambition and its consequences in “Macbeth.”

Lesser Studied Plays

• Exploration of societal norms in “Troilus and Cressida.”
• Themes of betrayal and loyalty in “Coriolanus.”
• The tragic elements in “Timon of Athens.”
• Elements of satire in “All’s Well That Ends Well.”
• Role of disguise in “Measure for Measure.”

Historical and Political Analysis

• Shakespeare’s portrayal of Roman politics in “Antony and Cleopatra.”
• The Tudor myth in Shakespeare’s historical plays.
• Analysis of the political climate in “Julius Caesar.”
• Leadership dynamics in “Henry IV, Part 2.”
• The politics of love in “Antony and Cleopatra.”

Language and Rhetoric

• Shakespeare’s innovative use of the English language.
• The power of soliloquies in driving plot and character development.
• Wordplay, puns, and their significance in “Twelfth Night.”
• Rhetorical devices in Mark Antony’s speech in “Julius Caesar.”
• The language of love in Shakespeare’s sonnets.

Gender and Sexuality

• The role of cross-dressing in “As You Like It.”
• Examining the feminist aspects of “The Taming of the Shrew.”
• Gender roles and expectations in “Macbeth.”
• Exploration of sexuality in “The Sonnets.”
• Female empowerment in “Much Ado About Nothing.”

Religion and Morality

• Religious undertones in “The Merchant of Venice.”
• The interplay of sin, redemption, and justice in “Hamlet.”
• Examination of moral dilemmas in “Othello.”
• Pagan vs. Christian beliefs in “King Lear.”
• The concept of divine retribution in Shakespeare’s tragedies.

Character Development and Evolution

• Evolution of Macbeth: From hero to tyrant.
• Desdemona’s resilience and fragility in “Othello.”
• The transformation of Prince Hal to King Henry V.
• Juliet’s journey from innocence to maturity.
• The multifaceted nature of Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice.”

Symbolism and Imagery

• The symbolism of blood in “Macbeth.”
• Light and darkness imagery in “Romeo and Juliet.”
• Nature imagery in “As You Like It.”
• The role of the handkerchief in “Othello.”
• Sea and land as contrasting symbols in “The Tempest.”

Settings and Their Implications

• The significance of the Forest of Arden in “As You Like It.”
• Venice vs. Belmont: Contrasting worlds in “The Merchant of Venice.”
• The claustrophobic setting of Elsinore in “Hamlet.”
• Social dynamics in the court vs. wilderness in “King Lear.”
• The island’s role as a microcosm of society in “The Tempest.”

Deceptions and Revelations

• The impact of Iago’s deceptions in “Othello.”
• Secrets and revelations in “Twelfth Night.”
• The tragic consequences of deceit in “Macbeth.”
• Mistaken identities in “The Comedy of Errors.”
• Portia’s cunning in “The Merchant of Venice.”

Love in Its Many Forms

• Unrequited love in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
• The destructive nature of obsessive love in “Antony and Cleopatra.”
• Familial love in “King Lear.”
• Friendship vs. romantic love in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.”
• The portrayal of true love in “The Sonnets.”

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Useful References

• Shakespeare Online
• The British Library – Shakespeare in Quarto
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Shakespeare’s Works: A Comprehensive Resource
• Shakespeare Resource Center

Hamlet Research Paper & Essay Examples

When you have to write an essay on Hamlet by Shakespeare, you may need an example to follow. In this article, our team collected numerous samples for this exact purpose. Here you’ll see Hamlet essay and research paper examples that can inspire you and show how to structure your writing.

✍ Hamlet: Essay Samples

• What Makes Hamlet such a Complex Character? Genre: Essay Words: 560 Focused on: Hamlet’s insanity and changes in the character Characters mentioned: Hamlet, Claudius, Ophelia
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• Drama Analysis of Hamlet by Shakespeare Genre: Essay Words: 1635 Focused on: Literary devices used in Hamlet Characters mentioned: Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia
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• Compare Laertes and Hamlet: Both React to their Fathers’ Killing/Murder Compare and Contrast Genre: Compare and Contrast Essay Words: 1188 Focused on: Tension between Hamlet and Laertes and their revenge Characters mentioned: Hamlet, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude
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• The Hamlet’s Emotional Feelings in the Shakespearean Tragedy Genre: Essay Words: 813 Focused on: What Hamlet feels and why Characters mentioned: Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius
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• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Genre: Explicatory Essay Words: 276 Focused on: The role and destiny of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet Characters mentioned: Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Hamlet, Claudius
• Passing through nature into eternity Genre: Term Paper Words: 2900 Focused on: Comparison of Because I Could Not Stop for Death, and I Died for Beauty, but was Scarce by Emily Dickinson with Shakespeare’s Hamlet Characters mentioned: Hamlet, the Ghost, Claudius, Gertrude
• When the Truth Comes into the Open: Claudius’s Revelation Genre: Essay Words: 801 Focused on: Claudius’ confession and secret Characters mentioned: Claudius, Hamlet
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50 Awesome Shakespeare Essay Topics You Should Consider for Your Literature Class

William Shakespeare is the most frequently discussed author in English Literature classes. By assigning the Shakespeare essay, teachers assess students' knowledge of his most distinguished works, as well as their overall ability to analyze literary pieces. Why is it so important? Because knowing Shakespeare's best stories and citing his most famous lines is the mark of how enlightened a person really is.

There are many types of academic essays, but if you stick with an essay on Shakespeare it will probably fall in one of the below categories:

• Descriptive essay (pick a particular idea and introduce it to the audience).
• Expository essay (shed light on a problem with the help of proven facts).
• Persuasive essay (take a position and try to justify it by citing evidence).

Picking Shakespeare essay topics is always challenging, which is why we decided to spare you the trouble and prepared a list of the top William Shakespeare essay topics.

Best Shakespeare Argumentative Essay Topics

• The topic of revenge & love: Does Hamlet reveal his feelings for Ophelia because of the desire for revenge?
• Discuss how real the ghost in Hamlet is.
• Sexual problems in William Shakespeare's works.
• The difference between historical events and the way Shakespeare interprets them.
• How convincing is the presence of the ghost in Hamlet ?
• Polonius's judgment: wrong or right perception?
• What do Shakespeare's characters use for achieving political goals?
• Does Hamlet deserve to die at the end?
• Analysis of films based on Shakespeare's poems.

Topics for Shakespeare Plays

• The role of emotions & social status in Shakespeare's works.
• Analysis of Comedy of Errors .
• William Shakespeare as a playwright.
• What are the similarities between Hamlet and Moby-Dick ?
• Melodrama - the primary genre of Shakespeare's plays.
• The most important feature of Shakespeare's plays (tragedy).
• The role of women in Othello .
• The influence of political events on the author.
• How Shakespeare brought about a revolution in literature.
• The most successful movies based on Shakespeare's famous plays.

Excellent Shakespeare Sonnets Essay Topics

• Choose The Dark Lady and argue the way she would be represented in the real world.
• The conflict between platonic love & carnal desire.
• Homoerotic desire in Shakespeare's sonnets.
• How should the sonnets be divided?
• Provide a couple of examples where Shakespeare criticizes himself for his inadequacies.
• The meaning of the black color in Shakespeare's sonnets.
• The images used by Shakespeare in his sonnets.
• In-depth analysis of sonnets 153-154.
• Methods used to characterize women's identity.
• The financial imagery in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Shakespeare Essay Topics - Female Characters

• The characters who dress up as boys (example: Viola ).
• Ladies with the power to do whatever they want ( Cleopatra ).
• Unassuming female characters who act for the sake of love.
• Shakespeare's common representation of women.
• The topic of sexism in Taming of the Shrew .
• Temptation in Macbeth .
• A feminist perspective on Shakespeare's famous works.
• The way Shakespeare depicts the relationships between men and women.
• Modern reaction to Shakespeare's representation of women.
• Describing female characters in Othello .

Stunning Essay Topics about Shakespeare

• Characters in Henry V .
• The issue of racism in Othello .
• The role of supernatural phenomena in Macbeth .
• What was Cassius' motivation?
• What was the central role of the Fool in King Lear ?
• How do 7 soliloquies represent Hamlet?
• Analysis of Othello's Desdemona.
• Racism in the art of Shakespeare.
• Characterizing King Duncan .
• Hermione from The Winter's Tale .

Which Format to Choose?

Once you are done selecting among the Shakespeare essay topics, think about the appropriate format for your essay. Go with the standard 5-paragraph essay, which usually comprises the following parts: an introduction, at least three body paragraphs, and conclusion. Make sure to include background orientation to the topic, and thesis in the introduction; provide arguments in support of the thesis statement (main idea of the writing) in the body paragraphs; summarize the body paragraphs and restate the thesis in the conclusion. The conclusion should leave a lasting impression on the reader so that you can do that with the help of a hook sentence of your choice:

• Literary quote.
• Rhetorical question.

It's also a good idea to finish your essay with an interesting fact from the author's life or a quote from his work proving your point.

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Verbal images related to the themes of love and jealousy in the later tragedies, "Othello" and "Antony and Cleopatra" help to understand the psychology of the characters, to penetrate into the patterns of these powerful passions. These images are very different from the metaphorical style in the early tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" – where they transmit power to suddenly erupted spontaneous feeling, which seems something sacred to the heroes. Romeo’s first words addressed to Juliet, express awe in this metaphor:

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Sophocles’ play “Oedipus the King” and William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” impose philosophical discussions about fate versus divine providence, supernatural and they both set examples of tragic heroes dealing with tragic events. Although they share common themes and motifs, there are both similarities and differences between the two plays, which will be further explored within the current paper.

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“Medea” and “Twelfth Night” are all examples of how the role of women has changed throughout society. Women in these plays stood up against oppression and took their lives into their own hands. These works offer insight into the strength of women characters and the struggle for women’s rights in today’s society.

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William Shakespeare is the greatest English playwright and poet and one of the prominent playwrights of the whole world. Nearly everybody knows the titles of his famous tragedies, which are played in theaters all over the world: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliette, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, etc. The writer has completed a set of world-famous tragedies, comedies, historical chronicles and sonnets, which fascinate readers of all ages. Every work of Shakespeare is a masterpiece and is considered to be the ideal work of the genre. When one speaks about theater, the first person which appears in mind is William Shakespeare, who being an actor and a playwright managed to create the immortal masterpieces whose quality can not be overestimated. The works of Shakespeare touch upon the most serious questions and problems which have always disturbed people: love, hate, wealth, friendship, selfishness, greediness, devotedness, family relations, politics, etc.

The tragedies written by Shakespeare can be called the philosophical ones, because try to answer all the mentioned questions and find the sense of life. Everybody knows the famous citation of Hamlet: ‘To be or not to be…’ which is considered the most powerful words in literature where the character is looking for the answer for the essential question interesting for people. Like every writer William Shakespeare created his works during the certain periods. For example the first period of his activity is supposed to be the merry one, as he wrote his comedies at that period believing in the goodness of the world. On the contrary, the last periods were the pessimistic ones, and enabled him to write his best tragedies.

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India’s modi promises to create jobs, boost infrastructure if bjp wins third term.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promised on Sunday to create jobs, boost infrastructure and expand welfare programmes if it wins a third term, seeking to address key voter concerns ahead of next week’s elections.

The general election, which begins on April 19, will be held in seven stages until June 1. Votes are due to be counted on June 4 and results expected the same day.

Modi, 73, is widely tipped to win a record-equalling third term on the back of his 10-year record, which includes strong economic growth, infrastructure projects, welfare handouts and aggressive Hindu nationalism.

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Surveys, however, suggest unemployment, inflation and rural distress remain issues of concern in the world’s most populous country despite its strong economy, and addressing these will be Modi’s biggest challenge.

“Our focus is on dignity of life … on quality of life, our focus is also on creating jobs through investment,” Modi said after releasing the manifesto, titled ‘Modi’s Guarantee’, at the party headquarters in the capital.

Modi said the manifesto is focused on creating jobs in sectors such as infrastructure, aviation, railways, electric vehicles, green energy, semiconductors and pharmaceuticals, among others, in a bid to address discontent at unemployment levels that are rising despite strong economic growth.

“India’s youth will not have even imagined the number of opportunities that will come their way,” he told cheering BJP members, including top federal ministers who sat in the audience wearing stoles featuring the BJP’s lotus symbol.

Focus on welfare

Modi also vowed to expand welfare programmes, including bringing all Indians above the age of 70 under an existing free health insurance programme and pushing piped cooking gas connections to all houses, to follow up on a subsidised cooking gas cylinder programme launched in 2016.

Other promises include raising the cap on loans for non-farming small and micro borrowers, offering free housing for another 30 million poor and keeping up a free grains programme for 800 million Indians until 2029. The manifesto said the BJP government would continue to focus on a path of low inflation and fiscal prudence to achieve high economic growth.

“The ambition of the 1.4 billion people of the country is Modi’s mission,” Modi said. “I am placing this manifesto before the people to seek their blessings. Please bless us … to increase our strength … implement this manifesto and ensure a developed India.”

Unemployment was the primary concern of 27 per cent of the 10,000 voters surveyed by Lokniti-CSDS across 19 of India’s 28 states, with rising prices coming second at 23pc, The Hindu newspaper reported last week.

The unemployment rate rose to 5.4pc in 2022/23, from 4.9pc in 2013/14 just before Modi swept to power, and nearly 16pc of urban youth in the 15-29 years age group remained unemployed in 2022/23 due to poor skills and a lack of quality jobs, official data shows.

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