Foster‚ Edward E. "Hamlet‚ Prince Of Denmark." Masterplots‚ Fourth Edition (2010): 1-4. Literary Reference Center. Web. 3 Feb. 2013. Critical Evaluation: Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark has remained the most perplexing‚ as well as the most popular‚ of William Shakespeare’s tragedies. Whether considered as literature‚ philosophy‚ or drama‚ its artistic stature is universally admitted. To explain the reasons for its excellence in a few words‚ however‚ is a daunting task. Apart from the matchless artistry
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Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker "Our Country’s Good‚" a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker‚ is about a group of English convicts bound for Australia by sea in 1788. In the first scene‚ Sideways‚ a convict on board the ship‚ is being brutally whipped and we are introduced to the constant‚ overwhelming fear‚ hunger and despair that the convicts are going through. We are also introduced to all the officials on board. They are debating the punishment of hanging that three of the convicts
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Shakespearean Intertextuality: Studies in Selected Sources and Plays. London: Greenwood Press‚ 1998. Marlowe‚ Christopher. Doctor Faustus: A- and B- texts. Ed. David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen. Manchester‚ UK: Manchester UP‚ 1993. Mebane‚ John S. ―Metadrama and the Visionary Imagination in Dr. Faustus and The Tempest.‖ South Atlantic Review 53.2 (May 1988): 25-45. Muir‚ Kenneth. ―Marlowe and Shakespeare.‖ ―A Poet & a Filthy Play-maker‖: New Essays on Christopher Marlowe. Ed. Kenneth Friedenreich‚ Roma
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