Love's Not Time's Fool

by Herminne Tonita - The greatness of Shakespeare's work, the peculiar quality which distinguishes it from that of all the other writers is beyond definition. Perhaps Dryden's saying that Shakespeare had an " universal" mind is the best brief attempt to describe this quality, which justifies John Hales' famous claim that whatever has been well said by any other poet has been better said by...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

by Herminne Tonita - "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare develops at three stages simultaneously according to an intricate, yet very symmetrical structure. These three sub-plots are linked by certain common elements: one character, Puck, the place, the woods of Athens, the time, Midsummer Eve and a certain type of experience, the dream. The three sub-plots have three different...

Hamlet's Questions

by Cristina Nuta - Shakespeare serves a wide variety of cultural purposes, from political nationalism around the globe to modern-day instruction in ‘leadership’ for business and corporate culture. He is in a way always two playwrights, not one: the playwright of his time and the playwright of our time, whatever time that is. Both ‘of an age’ and ‘for all time’, Shakespeare is the defining...