Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Universality of Shakespeare. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 10 page research paper/essay that explores the universality of Shakespeare's plays. The writer argues that there are qualities in the work of Shakespeare that are not limited to English society or the Elizabethan age, bur rather speak to all human beings. Despite the passage of centuries, the changes in the English language--or the language barrier in general--Shakespeare's work reaches across time and national boundaries to speak to the commonality of human experience. This examination of the Shakespearean canon explores the characteristics of Shakespeare's writing that infuses it with such timelessness. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Page Count:
10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_khuniwill.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
issue in regards to one author. On July 25, 1989, Moi gave a speech that paid tribute to William Shakespeare as a "literary genius of universal acclaim" (Masrui 64). The
Kenyan president awarded Shakespeare a permanent place in the countrys educational system (Mazrui 64). As this suggests, there are qualities in the work of Shakespeare that are not limited to
English society or the Elizabethan age, but rather speaks to all human beings. Despite the passage of centuries, the changes in the English language--or the language barrier in general--Shakespeares work
reaches across time and national boundaries to speak to the commonality of human experience. The following examination of the Shakespearean canon explores the characteristics of Shakespeares writing that infuses
it with such timelessness. According to Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom, great literary texts proceed from "inside the author," and, therefore, constitute an "outward expression of his or her intimate,
individual, personal feelings" (Hawkes). As Bloom puts it, "Shakespeare found Falstaff in Shakespeare, rather than in the social world beyond" (Hawkes). This suggests that Shakespeare possessed the ability to express
part of his own personality, or his observation of others, as fully-fledged characters. In his text, The Western Canon, Bloom maintains that Shakespeare is not merely the "canonical center" of
Western literature, but of the world (Brustein 27). According to Bloom, Shakespeare valued personality above all other elements in drama (Brustein 27). Bloom argues that "Personality and eros...were for the
poet-playwright, Shakespeares primary aesthetic values" (Brustein 27). In later writing, after The Western Canon, Bloom has become even more emphatic concerning the centrality of Shakespeares work to Western thought.
In Blooms book, The Invention of the Human, he asserts that Shakespeare, "in any human context," is the "greatest writer who ever lived" (McConnell 20). In awarding Shakespeare this distinction,
...