In Prospero’s Books, the Peter Greenaway film adaptation of Shakespeare’s romance The Tempest, the arranged and apparently consummated marriage of Claribel and the African King Tunis is depicted in the most grotesque fashion. A miserable and sexually . . .

Discusses the artificiality in William Shakespeare's Romances. Characterization of Shakespeare's late Romances from the point of view of critics; Nature of art in Shakespeare's works; Effect of conscious artificiality on the audience.

Discusses the establishment of the ameliorative tradition of the production and critical interpretation of the play "The Taming of the Shrew." Creation of a play-within-a-play structure in the Christopher Sly Induction; Information on the historical c . . .

An essay is presented on English dramatist William Shakespeare, on the plays he wrote, on the overall effect of his actors, boys and men in particular, in his company and the parts they were capable of playing. It discusses seven distinct roles and th . . .