# 14159 Curso Monográfico de Literatura
Inglesa. Shakespeare in Performance Grupo A
Student´s name : Ródenas García, Ana
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Here you can find my
papers about some characters and topics in five of William Shakespeare’s comedies. I hope they interest you!
“KATHERINE (THE
TAMING OF THE SHREW). From the shrew to the obedient wife”
Abstract : Katherine is not
a plain character; she suffers a process of transformation through the play. In
the beginning she is a temperamental woman who always contradicts everyone and
who is always angry, but in the end, she is a soft and delicate woman who
always obeys her husband; she has become the most obedient wife in the play.
But what are the reasons for this change of attitude?
“TITANIA (MIDSUMMER
NIGHT’S DREAM). Does she manipulate, or is she manipulated?”
Abstract : At first sight, one could think Titania is a great manipulator,
since she appears as the queen of the fairies and the fantastic world, which
has power over the real and the unreal. For instance, in her first appearance
in the play, Titania seems to be at the same level of power as Oberon, the
greatest manipulator. However, I personally think she does not manipulate as
much as she is manipulated, and I will try to show this idea through this
paper.
“ROSALIND (AS YOU LIKE IT) & KATHERINE (THE TAMING OF THE SHREW) Their love stories”
Abstract : Rosalind is not the conventional young aristocrat who falls in love
with a man, but a young woman who pretends to be a man in order to
“educate” her lover, Orlando, in the process of love, meanwhile,
confirming whether or not his feelings towards her are real or not. The fact of
trying to “educate” Orlando
seems to have something in common with the “taming process”
Katherine suffers by Petruchio. However, Rosalind and Katherine act in a
different way; the former is who carries out the action, and the latter, who
receives it. Anyway, although they seem to be different at first sight,
actually, they are not so different.
“MELANCHOLY IN AS
YOU LIKE IT, TWELFTH NIGHT AND MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING”
Abstract : “An epidemic of melancholy was sweeping through England
during the late 16th and early 17th Centuries.” (Elizabethan Melancholy).
This could be one of the main reasons why it is usual to find different
characters in Shakespeare’s plays who suffer from this illness, which is
closely related to sadness, another feeling very typical also in
Shakespeare’s plays. Sometimes, this melancholy is made explicit through
the words of some characters, and sometimes, it is implicit in the
characters’ behaviour. What I want to show in this paper is an analysis
of the characters that suffer from melancholy, or just present any kind of
sadness, giving evidence of the reasons and consequences for that.
Auto-evaluation
Academic year 2006/2007
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Ana Ródenas García
arogar3@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press