The story of Romeo and Juliet is a romantic-tragedy literary piece written by William Shakespeare. Summarily, the story behind Romeo and Juliet is about conflicts between two rival families and facing challenges that forbid their love to one another. In the stage play itself, I may say that the entire plot and setting is based from the modernized life style and culture that we have nowadays in our society. It reflects to us Filipinos in such away it influences us to accept things in a new perspective
plot device which we can only find in fiction, yet we try to believe in it and make it real, for it is a beautiful lie. The idea of “Love at first sight” in works of fiction was first introduced in Greek plays, and since then they’ve been a common literary resource to make two characters fall in love instantly with no need
Introduction: My essay topic examines the extent to which Macbeth fits into Shakespeare’s formula of tragedy. The research question of the essay is ‘To what extent does the play Macbeth fit into a set tragic formula of Shakespearean tragedy?’ To address this question this essay will examine Shakespeare’s play Macbeth by using the formula of Shakespearean tragedy described by A.C. Bradley in his work on ‘Shakespearean Tragedy.’ I also used ‘Understanding Shakespeare: Macbeth’ by Robert A. Albano
being widely used as a subject for academic study and literary criticism. A close critical analysis of Twelfth Night can