Shakespeare - Science topic

Doç. Dr. Sedat Bay, Sivas’ın en büyük halk ozanlarından olan Aşık Veysel’i dünyaca ünlü William Shakespeare ile kültürel ve sosyal bağlam, dil ve üslup ile farklı tematik konular açısından değerlendirip karşılaştırdığı, “Doğudan Batıya İki Ses, İki Ozan: Aşık Veysel ve Shakespeare” başlıklı çalışmasında; Doğu ve Batı’nın iki önemli şairi olan Aşık...

Dramatizing the alliance of Caesar and the commons, or the Caesarians, from Plutarch, Shakespeare traverses a contradictory historical situation. This article is a comparative study of the nature of the alliance between Caesar and the masses in Plutarch's Lives and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. It demonstrates that Plutarch pays much attention to ma...

Time is a major subject in Shakespeare's sequence of sonnets. Noticeably, the word "time" is mentioned seventy-nine times in the collection along with other relevant words like seasons, weeks, days, hours, and minutes. This study aims to analyze Shakespeare's use of mental time travel (MTT) in his collection of sonnets, especially those addressed t...

William Shakespeare demonstrates a high ability to monitor human behavior and a variety of natural phenomena. In his plays, the groundbreaking playwright incorporated the knowledge of his age about natural human phenomena and further described many clinical and mental disorders. This study aims to analyze Shakespeare's portrayal of sleep disorders...

This research article intricately explores the sensuousness in the selected works of two literary giants, John Keats (1795-1821) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) in a nutshell. Keats, renowned for his extraordinary ability to evoke sensual experiences, is widely regarded as a masterful exponent of sensuousness. His poetry is distinguished by viv...

This article studies Jane Rogers’ The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011). Elucidative emphasis is placed on this novel as a woman-authored contemporary rewriting of the classical myth of Iphigenia articulating an intricate intersectionality between reproductive dystopias, fairy tales, gothic fiction, the Bible and Shakespearean drama, as well as posth...

This study examines how patriarchal norms and societal expectations perpetuate oppression against women across centuries, drawing parallels between the fictional life of Judith Shakespeare in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own and the lived experiences of Afghan women under Taliban rule. It explores key areas where women's rights are curtailed—ed...

T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land stands as a quintessential example of modernist literature, renowned for its complexity and intellectual rigor. This paper examines the multifaceted challenges that contribute to the poem's enigmatic nature. Central to its difficulty is Eliot's esoteric approach, reflecting a deliberate departure from popular accessibili...

n the context of humanities, teaching and reading Shakespeare will be viewed as a significant process for language usage. Such activities have little scope in EFL context. It will be looking odd or obscure when one comes up with the concept of teaching Shakespeare to EFL learners. Choosing such complex materials may dismay both the teacher an...

What collaborative process can teachers offer in order to stimulate their students’ reading of and writing on Shakespeare’s plays? How can new technologies contribute to facilitating the classroom experience? The eZoomBook (eZB) template was designed for teachers to create and share multi-level digital books called “eZoomBooks” that allow readers t...

The work is composed of two mutually structuring moments. First, it briefly and critically reconstructs the broader spectrum of the health crisis surrounding Covid-19 that came to light in 2019 and which, in a distant or more recent period, received unique attention in the literary work of Shakespeare and Camus. Second, it provides an account of an...

Sic semper tyrannis. Der fiktive Attentäter Wilhelm Tell. Macbeth – der fiktive Königsmord. Der Gunpowder Plot von 1605. Das Politische Attentat in der Kunst (Band 3) Im fesselnden dritten Band unserer Reihe widmen wir uns den berühmtesten Attentaten, die das politische und kulturelle Gefüge des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit (scheinbar) gepr...

Identifying heroes, Albert Schweizer, Bob Dylan, Francis Yunkaporta and “the Buddha”: Letter to My Grandchildren and the Canberra Shakespeare Forum. Outlines the influence teachers at school, university and in the wider intellectual and practical realm have had on my life.

In 1971, only two years after the massacre of his family on behalf of Charles Manson and his “disciples”, Roman Polanski directed a controversial film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy produced by the Playboy tycoon Hugh Hefner. The result of this peculiar combination of intents is a raw, often visually brutal film in which the c...

Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1610-1611) is one of the controversial plays regarding whether to be placed in the purview of colonialism or anti-colonialism. The bard sketches two antithetical characters in the course of the play, Prospero and Caliban, who form the two extremes of the self against the other dichotomy. This study aims at proving Shakesp...

The (supposed) Inca drama Apu Ollantay was published first in Vienna in 1853 and is an enigma since because the revolutionary momentum of the drama is given by a sudden twist of the standard plot of such love dramas: unlike Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the lovers did not die by their own hands, but fought successfully for the right to love due t...

In Measure for Measure Shakespeare addresses a question that is both straightforward and hard to answer: how do we make people obey the law? Over the course of the play, this simple question gives way to a complex set of problems about human will, political legitimacy, and the origins of sovereign power. Measure for Measure is concerned with illici...

U romanu "Mirisi, zlato i tamjan" (1968) Slobodana Novaka pripovjedač više puta aludira na Shakespeareovu komediju "Na Tri kralja" ("Twelfth Night"), uglavnom kad napominje da se ekskrementalni kalendar, koji ravna njegovim pripovijedanjem, ima podudariti s Bogojavljenjem: otud i naslov romana. Već sam pisala o tome da Novakov Shakespeare nije samo...

In the works of William Shakespeare, time and space are often presented not as fixed dimensions but as fluid constructs, capable of manipulation and transformation. Through his deft use of dreams, illusions, and magical realms, Shakespeare explores the interwoven relationships between past and present, reality and imagination, in ways that challeng...

William Shakespeare's plays, renowned for their exploration of human nature, emotions, and social structures, frequently engage with the concepts of time and space in ways that transcend their Elizabethan context. Through the use of dreams, visions, and fantastical settings, Shakespeare's works invite audiences and readers to reflect on the malleab...

Artykuł poświęcony jest konfliktowi w rodzie Zamoyskich na początku lat dwudziestych XVII w. Anna z Wiśniowieckich Zamoyska, wdowa po strażniku polnym koronnym i kasztelanie chełmskim Janie Zamoyskim, została oskarżona o wysłanie do Zamościa czarownic, które miały rzucić urok na Katarzynę z Ostrogskich Zamoyską, żonę wojewody kijowskiego Tomasza Za...

Ian McEwan’s (1948- ) Nutshell (2016) has drawn the attention of academic spheres as a modern adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet since its publication. That is why the novel has been mostly studied as a rewriting in which the existential questionings of Shakespeare’s Hamlet are attributed to a modern-day foetus. Employing a foetus as a narr...

This paper explores the role of ambition, power and corruption that were reflected in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus during the Elizabethan period (1558-1603). During that period, society was characterized by the desire for power, unrestrained ambition, and corruption. The desire to have a lot of power was hi...

This new collection reveals that Shakespeare’s plays have always been embroiled in political and cultural debates. From the Elizabethan/Jacobean stage to modern classrooms, his works provoke conversation, challenge conventions, and ignite controversy. Nonetheless, Shakespeare’s central position in the traditional cultural establishment is facing re...

This article explores the genesis of The Peasants, a novel by the Polish writer and Nobel Prize award – Władysław Stanisław Reymont. The analysis incorporates perspectives from both Polish and European scholars. To shed light on the novel’s origins, the study draws parallels between Reymont’s work and selected novels by French authors, specifically...

This thesis makes a comparative study of French playwright Aime Cesaire’s A Tempest and Shakespeare’s The Tempest to present the conflicts between two important characters in both plays, Prospero and Caliban. By analyzing the relationship between the two characters, it is easily acknowledged that the relationship between the two characters is that...

Il saggio presenta un nuovo testimone della traduzione di Montale del Midsummer-Night’s Dream: il copione di Guido Salvini, che collaborò con Max Reinhardt alla regia dello spettacolo per il Maggio Musicale Fiorentino del 1933. Il copione contiene la prima forma della traduzione, anteriore al testo utilizzato da Reinhardt (deteriore, come il nuovo...

Fuseli's education took place under the guidance of Bodmer, who introduced him to the reading of Pseudo-Longinus and the great works of world literature. From Bodmer he derived the idea that the artistic transposition of the so-called “violent” or “tumultuous” sublime produces pleasure mixed with displeasure. His painting was strongly influenced no...

In both A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, sensory experiences play a significant role in shaping the narrative, character development, and thematic depth of the works. These two texts, though written centuries apart, delve into the realms of dreams, perception, and illusion, and expl...

The Restoration era in England witnessed a seismic shift in the way Shakespeare's works were approached, performed, and interpreted. Among the many adaptations of Shakespeare's plays during this time, one of the most striking transformations occurred with the reworking of Macbeth by Sir William Davenant. Davenant's version, first staged in 1663, wa...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a work that has endured for over four centuries, continuously adapted to fit the cultural, political, and aesthetic concerns of each new era. One of the most significant reimaginings of Shakespeare's play occurred during the Restoration period when Sir William Davenant produced a revised version of Macbeth in 1664....

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play imbued with the complexities of love, illusion, and transformation, elements that are deeply resonant with Ovidian themes. Central to the play's exploration of these themes is the pervasive use of animal imagery and dream symbolism, which draw heavily from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This paper de...

The Restoration era marked a significant turning point in the interpretation and performance of Shakespeare's works, with many of his plays undergoing adaptations to suit the sensibilities of the time. One of the most notable adaptations is Sir William Davenant's version of Macbeth, first performed in 1664. Davenant's reimagining of Shakespeare's t...

The Restoration period in England, marked by the return of Charles II to the throne in 1660, ushered in a new era of theatrical performance, characterized by lavish spectacles, elaborate costumes, and the reestablishment of the monarchy. Amidst these dramatic shifts in both political and cultural spheres, playwrights such as Sir William Davenant so...

In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the fantastical and dreamlike atmosphere allows for an exploration of themes rooted in Ovidian mythology, notably the concept of transformation. One of the most striking ways this theme manifests is through animal imagery, which plays a central role in the dream sequences and overall narrative of...

The interplay between sensory perception and dream symbolism plays a crucial role in both William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. These two works, written in different cultural and historical contexts, demonstrate how sensory experiences-especially sight and sound-are used to construct drea...

Holy Bible is the classic of Christian, having a deep and far-reaching influence on the thought and the everyday life of western people. The elements in Holy Bible were shown everywhere in Shakespeare’s tragedy: King Lear. This article aims to explore the essential propositions of Christian: sin, punishment and redemption as the clue, and analyzes...

The exploration of dreams as a bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind is a theme that permeates both Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, albeit in distinct manners. In both works, dreams serve not only as narrative devices but as immersive, multisensory experiences that blur the line...

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare creates a whimsical, dream-like atmosphere where the boundaries between reality and illusion blur, and transformations take center stage. Among the many themes explored, the interplay between love, desire, and identity is crucial to the unfolding of the plot. This essay examines the role of animal imagery i...

Concepts have always played an important part in our intellectual history. In this paper, I will deal with two often-neglected periods in the history of ontology and theology (late Antiquity and early modern Switzerland). I will elucidate the way thinkers debated over what should be the "ground rules" for thinking about how theological concepts rel...

Gertrude’s characterization in Hamlet is extensively analyzed with regard to her infidelity, promiscuity, and ostensibly virtuous nature. Further, much criticism on Gertrude is based on the content of Hamlet and the Ghost’s parlance which is male-oriented in perspective. Within the domain of revisioning literature, Gertrude and the characters who h...

The review presents a research project implemented at the University of Ljubljana and the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and published with the support of the State Agency for Science of the Republic of Slovenia – a two-volume collective monograph devoted to the problems of national translation. The collective set its...

Kupiec wenecki Williama Szekspira opowiada historię niespełnionego kontraktu. Jeden z głównych bohaterów dramatu, żydowski lichwiarz Shylock, pożycza obywatelowi Wenecji o imieniu Antonio sumę trzech tysięcy dukatów. Strony umowy ustalają, że jeśli dług nie zostanie w ciągu trzech miesięcy spłacony, Shylock będzie miał prawo wykroić funt mięsa z ci...

Edward Bond’s historical play Bingo, written in 1973, dramatically depicts Shakespeare as an exploiter and a suicide. It has given rise to lasting arguments in western academia ever since its première. Based on the focus of the disputes since the 1970s and the historical background of the enclosure movement, the characterization of this play is ass...

This paper attempts to explore the concept of “cras es noster” through revealing John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars as a postmodern narcissistic pastiche. The study demonstrates how Green deviates postmodern literary traditions to offer viable solutions to contemporary writing impasses. Therefore, it examines the characters as embodiments of postm...

The field of distributed cognition has been accused of being overly concerned with the “dogma of harmony,” valuing smoothness and success and neglecting moments of failure, contingency, noise, and chaos. This paper examines this proposition through a historical case study. Performances, whether theatrical or cinematic, depend upon deploying powerfu...

The study uses a Corpus Assisted Feminist Stylistic Analysis to look at how women are portrayed in Hamlet by William Shakespeare. This current study carries out these analyses with the help of adjectives. The adjectives are identified from the play with the help of computer software Sketch Engine. The study examines how women, notably Ophelia and G...

The concept of evil has been researched since the Medieval era, leading to the conclusion that human beings have the freedom to choose good from bad, or evil from good. The origin of evil based on the religious teachings is Satan, who is described as the Rebel Angel, as explained by Dante in The Divine Comedy (Alighieri, 1957). Satan tempts human b...

This study means to analyze Shakespeare’s use of mental time travel (MTT) in his collection of sonnets, especially those addressed to his young friend. It also hopes to amplify that Shakespeare’s versification of MTT anticipates modern neuropsychological studies on the topic. The article tackles MTT in light of four different premises induced from...

This paper argues with the feminist scholars that Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew is essentially a romanticized version of male's dominance over woman, which reveals a historical context where gender crisis was salient. However, it proposes that the play presents the idea of marriage in such a way that the relation of the wife--the potentiall...

The article studies the conceptual metaphors of time in the sonnets of Shakespeare in light of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) of Lakoff and Johnson (1980) presented in their book, Metaphors We Live By, and Kovecses’ (2002) informative views in his book, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. The extracted metaphors selected from a variety of son...

This study explores the application of a collaborative approach to the teaching of poetry translation as a literary genre to university Arabic speaking students. The collaborative approach is applied to the translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII “To His Love” into the Arabic Language. The participants in the experiment are two groups of female s...

Shakespeare is among those theatrical icons highly celebrated in the Arab world. The aim in this paper is to investigate acculturation strategies commenced by theatre amateurs in performing Shakespeare’s plays in Saudi Arabia. Major to the acculturation process is Hakim’s argument to eradicate Arabic versions from supernatural elements rejected in...

On the basis of the relevant research status at home and abroad and in-depth study of the drama texts, combining with Chinese and Western cultural traditions, social backgrounds, and the creative thoughts of playwrights, this paper compares and analyzes the similar characteristics, different artistic functions and underlying reasons of the “garden”...

Othello, hailed as one of four major Shakespeare’s tragedies, is a play in which various types of imagery can be found. As with most of Shakespeare’s plays, the function of imagery is to aid not only characterization but also the reinforcement of the main themes as it helps to convey meaning, establish the dramatic atmosphere of the play and facili...

Beauty, one of the most reoccurring words throughout Shakespeare’s Sonnets, is the principal subject of the poet’s meditation. “From fairest creatures we desire increase, / That thereby beauty’s rose might never die” begins the first poem in the sonnet sequence, a statement about beauty that can be understood as the first articulation of the Sonnet...

Shakespeare’s sonnets are a summit in terms of their thematic profundity as well as their rhetorical beauty and emotional exquisiteness. This paper attempts to make an exploration of the thematic uniqueness of Shakespeare’s sonnets through analyzing the themes of time, beauty, and love in the cultural context of the Renaissance. These sonnets show...

As the greatest playwright and poet in the English Renaissance, William Shakespeare, a pious Christian for a life-long time, laid in the rich symbolical Christian tone and religious implications his devout and personalized beliefs in Christianity bestowed upon his humanism ideal. In his play The Tempest, Shakespeare contains much deep meaning by us...

Shakespeare’s As You Like It is no doubt a successful pastoral model, whether read as a play of complete celebration of the spirit of pastoral romance or as a sheer satire of the pastoral ideal, in which the pastoral quality should very much rely on its characteristic pastoral setting, the Forest of Arden in comparison with Sicily and Arcadia. Howe...

This article is an attempt to explore the inclusion and the use of superstitious elements in Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Shakespeare’s play Macbeth (1611). Superstition involves a deep belief in the magic and the occult, to almost to an extent of obsession, which is contrary to realism. Through the analytical an...

This paper aims to delve into Desdemona’s mind in Shakespeare’s Othello. In this paper, Desdemona’s utterances are perused through conceptual metaphor analysis. The objective of this study is to disclose Desdemona’s cognitive complexity, and conceptual metaphor analysis offers an opportunity to enter Desdemona’s cognitive world notwithstanding the...

I have traveled to and enjoyed the productions at seven Shakespeare festivals in the following states: Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. And over these years I have concluded that we miss something valuable in our understanding of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries by investing our academic, scholarly interest in performances by...

Shakespeare was not known to the Chinese until Lin Zexu’s (1785-1850) translation of Hugh Murray’s (1789-1845) Cyclopedia of Geography (1836). Since then, the Chinese perception of Shakespeare has changed several times, from his being regarded as a story-teller to being fully received as a seasoned playwright and poet, through to his plays being re...

Critical discourse on Shakespeare’s Hamlet often discusses Polonius as a victim, ignoring Shakespeare’s creativity in depicting the complexities of the human psyche. Therefore, this paper attempts to study Polonius’ character from a new perspective through answering questions such as: what is the meaning of the death of a whole family that has appa...

This study is an attempt to explore the intrinsic behavior of Richard, the tragic hero of Shakespeare’s renowned historical play Richard III. This paper interprets deformity is a cause or excuse behind Richard’s wickedness that leads him towards his appalling disaster. It further evaluates the internal conflicts of Richard’s mind, his lust for the...

English literature is taught around the world. Most teachers of English in China are non-native English users. Most adapt literary texts for their second-language classrooms. Little research explores their processes of modifying texts. This study analysed data from 202 in-service and intending teachers, over four years. Teachers were asked first to...

This paper addresses the role of meaningful sounds in poetic communication. A sound symbolic system (Whissell, 2000) was employed to score Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets in terms of the percentage of Harsh (e.g., sh, oo, r, k, p) and Gentle (e.g., l, long e, th, eh, m) sounds in each line. Significant differences in the employment of emotional sounds ac...

Sonnets written in the Shakespearean or Petrarchan form are both assumed to present and then answer a problem, but they do so in different ways. The two forms have different rhyming schemes. The volta or turn is predicted to occur between lines 12 and 13 in the first and lines 8 and 9 in the second form. It is argued that sound in poetry is emotion...

در این نگارش «کشمکش» در شخصیت‌های محوری و اصلی نمایشنامه­ی هملت شکسپیر و لیلی و مجنون نظامی بررسی‌شده است و هدف این بود که جنبه‌های مشترک روانی­ شخصیت‌های نمایشنامه هملت شکسپیر و لیلی و مجنون نظامی را شناسایی کرده و به این سؤال‌ها پاسخ دهد که آیا در شخصیت‌های محوری و اصلی نمایشنامه‌ی هملت و لیلی و مجنون کشمکش­های روانی وجود دارد؟ و آیا شخصیت‌های اص...

This study evaluates the performance of TF-IDF weighting, averaged Word2Vec embeddings, and BERT embeddings for document similarity scoring across two contrasting textual domains. By analysing cosine similarity scores, the methods' strengths and limitations are highlighted. The findings underscore TF-IDF's reliance on lexical overlap and Word2Vec's...

Most contemporary playwrights acknowledge that Shakespeare’s dramas are for use as raw material to be assimilated into contemporary mould, not to be revered strictly as untouchable museum pieces. Being the model of all dramatists, Shakespeare had a great influence on English theatre, his plays are still performed throughout the world, and all kinds...

The presence of pictorial art in the various film adaptations of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been traditionally expounded as part of an exercise in stylization and historical localization. Elaborating upon a comparative and revisionist approach, which draws on Douglas Lanier's (2014) "rhizomatic" methodology, this paper reexamines th...

Shakespeare's Dark Lady has generated not only a great deal of speculation as to her identity, but also a number of literary treatments in fiction, drama and even poetry. This paper will provide an overview of these depictions, only to focus on two of the most recent and most prominent examples, these being the theatre play Emilia by Morgan Lloyd M...

Michael Madhusudan Datta writes his major poems and dramas in aesthetic style which is the use of blank verse. He chooses a distinct medium of literary terms in the free verse and it delineates the features of uncommon preferences. He is highly subjective in the imagination of writing poetic quality of contemporary trends that precisely one of the...

Albeit Othello’s loyal service to Venice is clear, ramifications of the Blackamoor in the text has called upon a continuous scholarship of interest over the last two decades. One begins to wonder, whether the Blackamoor’s presence in a Venetian setting serves a purpose to the English readership? If so, to what extent did Shakespeare refine the repr...

The article reviews Javor Gardev's recent production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice on the stage of the Bulgarian National Theatre in the context of the play's long debated generic ambiguity and the "unpleasant" issues it confronts. It argues that even though, due to good historical reasons, the issue of antisemitism has attracted most of...

The intricate and nuanced roles that women play throughout William Shakespeare's tragedies, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which female characters navigate power, agency, and rebellion within the patriarchal frameworks of their different realms. Through an in-depth examination of significant characters like Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Cleop...

The play Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedies. This research is intended to analyze the functions of Lady Macbeth as the other self to Macbeth. She is not only the motivator of Macbeth’s self-assertion, but also the silent bearer of Macbeth’s burden of conscience and the reflector of Macbeth’s self-alienation. Undoubted...

Diferente da tradição das últimas palavras de Júlio César, “Até você, meu filho!”, preservada por Suetônio (Iul. 82, 3) e Dião Cássio (44. 19, 3), Shakespeare, na Tragédia de Júlio César, atribuiu ao seu protagonista o seguinte: “Et tu, Brute? Então, que morra César” (Ato 3. Cena 1). Os críticos literários da peça, a exemplo de Spevack (2004), Heli...

In this article, we focus on the association of sound and sense harmony in the collection of sonnets written by Shakespeare in the XVI° beginning of the XVII° century and propose a new four-dimensional representation to visualize them by means of the system called SPARSAR. To compute the degree of harmony and disharmony, we automatically extracted...

Objective: This article addresses the specific problems of state protection for deaf women who are victims of domestic violence who, in addition to the frequent problems of the system, face linguistic and cultural barriers in accessing the State and the Judiciary. Theoretical framework: We used the theoretical foundations of the concept of disabili...

The article presents a human resource perspective on the character Iago from Shakespeare's play Othello. The article explains and describes Iago as a disgruntled employee, due to him being passed over for a job promotion.

Zinnie Harris (1972 -) is a prominent contemporary British playwright known for her original plays and rewritings of renowned Western male playwrights’ works. In her rewritings, Harris gives new stories to the popular female figures of Western drama to challenge the dominant strand of criticism about the original plays, especially regarding the com...

This article proposes an analysis of Adriana Falcão’s novel Sonho de uma noite de verão (2007), a parodic reinterpretation of William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We aim at investigating the inherently metafictional nature of this novel, emphasizing that its parodic composition already situates it within the realm of reflexive or m...

This article addresses a conceptual and artistic issue that is vital for Norwid’s entire work, namely the relationship between time and movement. This question has preoccupied philosophers and poets since antiquity, giving birth, for instance, to the ingenious concept of time-space developed by Alfred Einstein, and leading further to string theory,...

This is an essay that discusses traditional to modern allusions to multicultural Shakespeare. Major emphasis is placed on discussing proverbs and idiomatic expressions that help us understand the meanings of Shakespeare's plays, though they can be deeply hidden and difficult to catch for people from a completely different cultural context. Shakespe...