I enjoy creative writing. I haven't written very much, mostly because I have
trouble finding good ideas. Here's what I've decided to put up:
- Bakhtin's Theory of Carnival in Hamlet
- A paper about a paper by Michael D. Bristol about the Theory of Carnival
in relation to Shakespeare's Hamlet. I really wish that I'd written something
cooler about Hamlet.
- Eliza Vs Roxy
- A comparison between Roxy in Mark Twain's "Pudd'nhead Wilson" and
Eliza in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which my professor seemed to
like much more than I did.
- Dr. Faustus Source Study
- A comparison of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus from the German source material. On a
side note, the 1967 movie version may be wildly uneven, but 1967 Liz Taylor
is so stunning as Helen of Troy that you'll believe that hers could be
the face that launched a thousand ships.
- Fishbowl Blues
- The story of a man and his magical fish. I wrote this one back in 1999 or 2000,
but didn't have much luck selling it to magazines. I'd be interested in what
you think of it!
- Guinevere's Redemtion
- A nifty essay on how the evolution of Arthurian myth included a gradual transformation
of the character of Queen Guinevere from traitorous harridan to flawed, but sympathetic
heroine. This one was actually one of my personal favorites, even if my professor wasn't
impressed.
- Hal Vs Hotspur
- A discussion of how and why Shakespeare transformed the historical Hotspur
into a perfect foil for the superhuman Henry V.
- Macbeth Source Study
- Wherein I discuss exactly how the paranoia of King James shaped on of
Shakespeare's best loved tragedies. It's the same preoccupation which led to
the King James translation of the Bible being stuffed to bursting with references to
witchcraft where they don't belong.
- Midsummer Night's Dream
- An essay so stunningly mediocre that I didn't even bother to give it a
proper title.
- Orfeo and the Other World
- An essay I wrote for my English 311 class about the middle english romantic fairy poem
called "Sir Orfeo". It's pretty short and I can still remember that I didn't have enough
words (as the instructions included a very strict length restriction) to go into as much
detail as I wanted to, and didn't get to mention the fairy king's courtyard of horrors
at all!
At least I still got an A.
- Volpone the Fox
- My essay about Ben Jonson's genre-defying play Volpone.
- Zenobia's Romance
- A study of Zenobia from Nathaniel Hawethorn's "Blythedale Romance". I don't think
this is the final version, as the last paragraph in my file was mostly sentence
fragments which I've deleted.
I'll look for the hard copy, but I suspect that even the final draft was mediocre at best.
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