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Dr Donald Richardson
King John is quite problematic. As the ending is not a satisfying resolution, the audience is left without a sense of completion. It appears everything is left up in the…
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Coriolanus is a man afflicted by a tragic flaw: Hubris (Hybris), overweening pride. His thoughts are immediately expressed in his speech, never mind the setting or the audience. This, combined…
Measure for Measure is "usually considered one of [Shakespeare's] unpleasant comedies" (Asimov, 635) since mercy is offered to "the villain" (Asimov). The duplicity of the Duke is debatable too, along…
Titus Andronicus, like Hamlet, is a revenge tragedy but one that "focuses on violence and horror[;] . . . its mood is one of revulsion" (Bevington, Introduction). Despite parallels between…
Even though most Shakespearean scholars argue that Pericles is not entirely the work of Shakespeare, similar to The Winter's Tale, it continues to attract playgoers. "Shipwreck, famine, and other disasters…
Cymbeline repeats many of Shakespeare's plot devices: "villainous slander, homicidal jealousy, cross-gender disguise, a deathlike trance, the appearance of Jupiter in a vision, and final repentance, forgiveness, and reunion" (Mowat…
One critic of the Merry Wives of Windsor argues that "no longer does Shakespeare endow the fat knight [Falstaff] with the nimble wit that enabled him in the earlier plays…
One recurrent criticism of The Third Part of HVI, is its cavalier disregard for chronology and historical events. However, Lawrence V. Ryan argues that the disjointing of time…
"The role of prophecy is . . . central in 2 Henry VI, in that it gives to the play a dominant pattern of prediction and eventual fulfillment" (Bevington). This…
Detective fiction is said to have begun in 1841 with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." There are antecedents to Poe, but Poe is the progenitor for…
Dr Donald Richardson (Registrar in Renal Medicine St James's University Hospital Leeds)
Thomas is not so much the doubter he is traditionally labeled as being as he is a thinker. He needs to make sense of things. He’s the kid in the…
