Is Hamlet an artistic failure?

T.S. Eliot considers the play an artistic failure. We should better give in his own words why he thinks so: ...
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Analysis of Hamlet’s soliloquies and its purpose they serve

Soliloquies in Shakespeare’s tragedies either reveal the character of the speaker or point to a new phase or development of ...
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Explain And Illustrate Hamlet’s Madness

Hamlet’s Madness is a vexed question. In spite of Hamlet’s own assertion-“I’ll put an antic disposition,” there are critics who ...
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Compare Hamlet with Macbeth, Othello and other Tragedies

Hamlet is marked by the greatest subtlety in conception of character and complication of motives. When we compare Hamlet with ...
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The Role of Ghost in Hamlet By Shakespeare

The ghost is a part of the machinery of the revenge Play, and as much the ghost is in Hamlet. ...
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The Nun’s Priest’s Tale Moves On The Levels, The Animal and The human

The story of The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is throughout played out on two levels: the animal level of cock, favourite ...
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Chaucer Art of Narration with reference to ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

Chaucer is the greatest English story-teller in verse, ‘one of the world’s three or four story-tellers’ Lowes. Other writers have ...
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Skill of Chaucer in his Writing of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale

Chaucer has borrowed his subject-matter freely from other sources like Shakespeare. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is no exception. The story ...
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Discuss the Nun’s Priest’s Tale as a mock heroic poem

A heroic poem is an epic poem. It tells the story of a hero whose adventures and exploits have a ...
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Comment on Geoffrey Chaucer’s language and versification