Category Archives: Projects Fall 2025

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/06/235767/10-things-i-hate-about-you-rom-com-fest-writer-interview Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and its modern adaptation 10 Things I Hate About You both explore the tension between love and feminism, though they do so in vastly different social worlds. Shakespeare’s Renaissance Padua, romantic relationships are shaped by patriarchal authority, where women are expected to submit to male dominance both inContinue reading “Love and Feminism in the Modern Age vs Shakespearean Age “

Classics like Shakespeare Shakespearian literature is a confusing classical mess of another language that is hard to understand for many. Grade schools love to use Shakespeare in their curriculums, decidedly use it right off the bat at the beginning of the year as an introduction to the literary world.When schools use confusing classics as aContinue reading “Studies in English Traditional Essay”

Every generation thinks it understands love for the first time. Still, they all find the same truth: the world rarely lets love to happen without consequences. Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” tells the story of two young lovers whose passion defies social rules but ultimately leads to their tragic end. In contrast, Saka Mikami’s “The Fragrant Flower BloomsContinue reading “Forbidden Love for The Modern Eyes (Final)”

Over the years, there have been many different adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, and more often than not they maintain a theme of tragedy as the original story did. But one specific adaptation that “. . . creators make significant changes” to while still keeping enough key ideas to be able to identify it asContinue reading “Character Portrayal Changes the Genre”

Charlotte Day November 3, 2025 Traditional Essay Toxic masculinity has been around since the beginning of time, and is still around to this day. All adaptations of Romeo and Juliet have a little bit of a different way of telling the story. One thing that all Romeo and Juliet adaptations have in common is genderContinue reading “Toxic Masculinity in Romeo and Juliet”

West Side Story’s tragic take on racism and loss. Jerome Robbins’s West Side Story, a musical take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, depicts two rivaling gangs fighting for territories in 1950’s New York City.  However, Robbins takes a very interesting route with how this musical plays out. He very cleverly makes the musical not onlyContinue reading “West Side Story’s tragic take on Racism and Loss”

Brody Beaudet Studies in English               When I was assigned this essay, I had a hard time figuring out what I was going to do and then it hit me. One of Romeo and Juliets main themes is tragedy/death mainly being caused from violence. So, with an adaptation like Gnomeo and Juliet, a kids movieContinue reading “How Does the Lack of Tragedy in Gnomeo and Juliet Change the Source Material’s Message?”

At the very tail end of the 1500s, poet and playwright William Shakespeare wrote As You Like It. The play, like many of Shakespeare’s works, is a comedy. While the play has received a few film adaptations over the years, there aren’t quite as many as his more popular works such as Romeo & Juliet.Continue reading “As You Like It – A Bland Adaptation?”

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the character of Lady Macbeth’s complexity lies with her rejection of femininity, and different adaptations skew the meaning of the original text. The gender roles we associate men and women with almost completely reverse in the play. Macbeth is seemingly stripped of his individuality and masculinity, as Lady Macbeth pulls theContinue reading “Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Women in Control”

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is not only a classic revenge tragedy but a powerful exploration of psychological trauma and the unraveling of the human mind. Set in Scotland, the play follows Macbeth, who, in the beginning, was a loyal soldier and nobleman, but ends up descending into paranoia and guilt after murdering King Duncan to gain the throne.Continue reading “PTSD and the Psychological Decay of Macbeth (Updated)”