A five page paper looking at the Elizabethan concept of natural law in relation to this play by William Shakespeare. The paper asserts that Shakespeare s audiences believed that there was a natural, cosmic order of things ordained by God, and Lear violated it so many times in the first act alone that the tragic results were his just desserts. No additional sources. A 5 page analysis of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet,' looking carefully at Hamlet's speeches and behavior patterns to determine whether he is, in fact, mad. The paper points out that in the very first act, he warned his friends he might sham an 'antic disposition,' and he continues to do so throughout the play while he hatches his plot for revenge.
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This 6 page research paper compares and contrasts Shakespeare's Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet with Sophocles' Oedipus. Specifically discussed are the ironic literary settings exhibited in each play, as well as common tragic themes of betrayal, murder and suicide, providing quotations from the plays' texts to support argument. Bibliography lists 3 sources.