Download or read book The Complete Love S Labors Lost written by Donald J. Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loves Labors Lost is widely considered Shakespeares most intellectually challenging comedy (Bate, back cover). From its extensive wordplay to the plot machinations, a reader (viewer) is continuously challenged. The recurrent bawdy is another factor that forces one to pay close attention. Thus, the play can be quite satisfying. However, it can become tiresome too, especially considering the high-flown rhetoric of Holofernes. Finally, the discrepancy between the mens view of the women and the womens view of the men should stimulate one to examine whether there is depth to the comedy or whether it is all for fun.

Download or read book The Complete as You Like It written by Donald J. Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As You Like It could be termed the archetypal Shakespearean romantic comedy: the lovers retreat to the Forest of Arden, where all their problems are resolved satisfactorily, and all ends in marriage (four marriages, in fact). However, the romance of the play is ameliorated somewhat by the pragmatism of Rosalind who says, Men have died from time to / time and worms have eaten then, but not for love (IV.i.945). There is an air of melancholy in Jaques, who says, I can suck / melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs (II.v.1112). This is also the play in which Shakespeare delimits the seven ages of man (II.vii.14269), an archetype relevant yet today, despite Americans hesitancy to accept it as other than melancholy.

Download or read book The Complete Winter S Tale written by Donald Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blind rage underlies Leontes jealousy in The Winters Tale. Although his jealously is akin to Othellos, it is not carried out to the same extent, thanks to the oracles pronouncement. While Leontess change of heart strains credibility, he does redeem himself and, in the process, changes the tragedy into a comedy, or at least a play with a happy resolution. One might also compare Hermione with Desdemona as both are more sinned against than sinning (Lear, III.2). Despite Leontes reformation, one cannot avoid sympathy for Hermione, she who has been made to pay dearly for her husbands lack of faith and trust. She certainly deserves more.

Download or read book The Complete All S Well That Ends Well written by Donald J. Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plot of Alls Well That Ends Well is illustrated by what one character says (III.66), The web of our life is a tangled yarn. Through all of the twists and machinations, justice triumphs, and loyalty is rewarded. The play is challenging, however, because of the somewhat inconsistent direction; it has been called a problem play. As Bevington states, The web of human life remains a mingled yarn (148).

Download or read book The Complete Cymbeline written by Donald Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cymbeline repeats many of Shakespeares 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, xiii), all of which result in an improbable story (Mowat, xv). As a romance, the play calls to mind the need for Coleridges willing suspension of disbelief (Biographia Literaria, quoted in Greenblatt, 478). Yet it is still Shakespeare.

Download or read book Plants vs Zombies Timepocalypse 1 written by Paul Tobin and published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues). This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PopCap's immensely popular Plants vs. Zombies game returns to comics with an incredible, zombie-zapping sequel! Young adventurers Patrice Blazing and Nate Timely travel through time to fend off a "fun-dead" invasion spanning several eras in Plants vs. Zombies: Timepocalypse! They'll have a little help from Crazy Dave, of course—and tons of help from the many new plants they encounter! This hilarious romp is guaranteed to tickle funny bones and thrill your . . . brains. Paul Tobin (Bandette, Prometheus) and Ron Chan (The Guild, Husbands) deliver another hilarious, all-ages, action filled zombie romp to your neighborhood! The hit video game returns to comics! A humor-filled adventure that all ages can enjoy! Tobin and Chan take us on another original Plants vs. Zombies adventure! A new Plants vs. Zombies comic-book series!

Download or read book The Complete Coriolanus written by Donald J. Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 with his near total naivete, leads to his downfall, especially when confronted by the machinations of Brutus and Sicinius. Despite the wise advice given him by his mother, his wife, and his friend Menenius, he indulges himself by giving expression to his umbrage-deserved, no doubt but ill-advised nevertheless. He is the epitome of self-indulgent pride. Thus, he dooms himself through his own impulsive behavior, especially his speech.

Download or read book The Complete Henry the Eighth written by Donald J. Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its title, Henry the Eighth deals with three other, more important stories: the fall of Cardinal Wolsey, the fall of Queen Katherine, and the raising of Anne Bullen (Boleyn). For Elizabethans, the culmination of the play was, of course, the birth of Elizabeth, heralding their queen and her successor, James. Full treatment of Henry VIII would have to be dealt with by historians. The machinations of court life under Henry were to be continued under Elizabeth but, unlike her father, to much greater political success. James, unfortunately, is another story altogether.

Download or read book Deep in the Darkness written by Michael Laimo and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2024-09-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Michael Cayle wants the best for his wife and young daughter. That's why he moves the family from Manhattan to accept a private practice in the small New England town of Ashborough. Everything there seems so quaint and peaceful at first. But Ashborough is a town with secrets. Unimaginable secrets. Many of the townspeople are strangely nervous, and some speak quietly of legends that no sane person could believe. But what Michael discovers in the woods, drenched in blood, makes him wonder. Soon he will be forced to believe, when he learns the terrifying identity of the golden eyes that peer at him balefully from deep in the darkness.

Download or read book The Complete Pericles Prince of Tyre written by Donald Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though most Shakespearean scholars argue that Pericles is not entirely the work of Shakespeare, similar to The Winters Tale, it continues to attract playgoers. Shipwreck, famine, and other disasters punctuate this wondrous tale, in which a knight in rusty armor fights for his true love and a princess kidnaped by pirates retains her honor by setting a virtuous example for her captors (Daurio, cover). The play is a true romance, or as Joseph Papp states, it is a fairy tale about a separated familys coming back together again. (Quoted in Bevington). Papp also reminds perceptive readers or audience members to look for little bits of wisdom along the way; such is true of the entirety of the Shakespeare canon.

Download or read book Behold the Sun written by Donald J. Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western has become an archetype for the founding of a great portion of the United States. The behavior of the men and women who pioneered the great, vast prairies of the land west of the Mississippi set standards which continue today. Living on the outskirts of formal settlements, they governed their lives and their childrens lives with a code that lives on today, irrespective of formal laws and which serves as an underpinning of a life lived morally and consciously, aware of ones environment, ones neighbors, and oneself. Of course it recognized personal and communal responsibility. One could do much worse than subscribe to such a code in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book The Complete Timon of Athens written by Donald Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timon of Athens might be regarded as the ancestor of Molieres Les Misanthropein that Alceste seems to embody all the negativity of Timon. Timon also illustrates the error of equating friendship with finances. He finds that his idealization of friendship has been an illusion (Mowat, xiv). He is, thus, a man nobly but unwisely generous (Hinman, 17). The play, itself, is one which its author never quite finished (Hinman, 27).

Download or read book The Complete Titus Andronicus written by Donald Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Aaron and Iago and between Titus and Lear, the play extends the genre of revenge tragedy and becomes one of unremitting violence and bloodshed. Although the revenge is supposed to offer some type of catharsis, it is challenging to accept the unmitigated and almost purposeless violence of the play. It is small wonder that scholars have denied Shakespeare as the author.

Download or read book The Complete Troilus and Cressida written by Donald J. Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troilus and Cressida retells the epic story of the Iliad, but with an altered focus. The tale of these lovers (and Pandarus) was told earlier by both Homer and Geoffrey Chaucer. In Shakespeare, however, the epic proportions are reduced to the quotidian details of human passion, including quarrels and misunderstandings, which reduce the protagonists to a pitying level, including calculation and manipulation (Mowat, xv). The result has been called satire; unfortunately, it is satire without bite or humor.

Download or read book The Complete Second Part of Henry Vi written by Donald Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 pattern isnt satisfied, however, as a result of King Henrys lackadaisical style. Throughout the play, it is clear that Henry is ineffectual as a ruler. Not only that, those who represent him are also handicapped. In fact, as Bevington states, The forces of good do not fare well. Henry VI, Part 2 keeps its audience in suspense about the ultimate fate of the king by ending as it does at the beginning of the Wars of the Roses. . . The outcome of these wars will be presented in Henry VI, Part 3 (Mowat, xvii). Resolution will have to wait.

Download or read book The Complete First Part of Henry Vi written by Donald J. Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One recurrent criticism of the First Part of HVI is its cavalier disregard for chronology and historical events. However, Lawrence V. Ryan argues that the disjointing of time . . . enables him [Shakespeare] to achieve striking dramatic and didactic effects (xxx). Thus, one is enjoined to remember Coleridges admonition to suspend disbelief. Ryan argues that 1HVI is by no means a failure as a play for theatrical performance (xl). Bevington seems to accede to Shakespeares nonconventional view of history when he writes. Shakespeares scenes seriously challenge any providential view of history (Introduction, unpaginated).

Download or read book The Complete Measure for Measure written by Donald J. Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measure for Measure is usually considered one of [Shakespeares] unpleasant comedies (Asimov, 635) since mercy is offered to the villain (Asimov). The duplicity of the Duke is debatable too, along with the final resolution that offers mercy toward the guilty. Like Alls Well That Ends Well, the play should foster discussion about the paternalistic and somewhat insensitive treatment of women and their right to control their own bodies. Critics have often debated both the quality of the justice the play delivers and its attempt to balance the respective claims of Law and Mercy (Crewe, xlvii). Such debates continue today.