Chapters

The chapters in the thesis were going to be: Hamlet, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, MacBeth, Nature of Narrative.  I believe they’re now going to be, and this is very exciting:
Hamlet-Successful Narrative Usurptation
Richard III-Failed Narrative Usurptaiton
Non-Protagonist Usurpation- Prophesy, Messengers, and the internal audience
The Nature of Narrative
This organization just makes sense.  Don’t worry, you’re going to [...]

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Monologue in Richard III and Hamlet

            Soliloquy, at the turn of the century, is being re-identified, and begins to change in form from a long speech integrated into a dialog, to a mode of expressing the otherwise internal thought process of a character (de Grazia 74).  Still acknowledged as communication between two units, it becomes the dialog between the mind [...]

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Senecan Anger

            King Lear is a play without Providence, but with a strong conceptual understanding and hope there for.  From the beginning of the tragedy, which is instigated by Lear’s failure of judgment, Providence abandons the scene, and although there are many instances when the characters might again call forth reason and thereby gain salvation, but [...]

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Messengers Ant and Cleo

            Messengers play a prominent role in The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra from the beginning of the play.  Although their prominence fades as the play continues, there is still an unusual emphasis both on delivering messages, the messages themselves, and how the deliverer of messages is treated.  In the last lines of Act I, [...]

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