All's Well That Ends Well: The Bed-trick
This essay examines why the off-stage bed-trick contributes to the characterization of All's Well That Ends Well as a "problem comedy". All's Well That Ends Well
Discusses the theme of youth and the conflict between wisdom and folly in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well.
Antony and Cleopatra: Roman Letters
Explores the transformations of two aspects of Antony and Cleopatra: performance and writing. Antony and Cleopatra: Tragedy of Imagination
Joyce Carol Oates examines how tragic figures confront and attempt to define "reality" in Antony and Cleopatra. As You Like It: Jaques
A short critique of Jaques from a student's point of view. As You Like It: Instruction Versus Deception
Compares Shakespeare's As You Like It to its source, Thomas Lodge's Rosalynde, and examines Shakespeare's deviations from Lodge's work. Bringing Deformed Forth
David Lucking posits that this is a play 'about what it means to be about anything' and the title holds the key to its complexities. The Comedy of Errors
A brief overview of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, written by Kim Pereira for the 1995 Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Criticism Collection
Hundreds of scholarly essays on Shakespeare's life, plays, and sonnets, and on Elizabethan England in general. Doubles and Likenesses-with-difference
Double meanings and their interplay within the text of two of Shakespeare's plays: The Comedy of Errors and The Winter's Tale.
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