Glossary of Literary terms

 

Hamlet Culminating Activity

Crucible Culminating Activity 

 

Hamlet

Hamlet and the Evolving Code of Honor

Hamlet on the Couch (about madness)

Early Modern Philosophy of Mind

Madness and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare 

Hamlet and His Problems

Hamlet's Antic Disposition  

 

Antigone

The Woman as Hero and Victim

The Two Burials in Antigone

The Opening of Sophocles' Antigone

The Antigone as Cultural Touchstone

Notes on Sophocles

Female Control of Funeral Rites

Creon and the Ode to Man in Sophocles' Antigone

Assumptions and the Creation of Meaning Reading Antigone

Antigone Laments

After Antigone

 

King Lear

A Prophetic Tragedy

An Existential Examination of King Lear

Gendering King Lear

King Lear and the Decline of Feudalism

King Lear and the Fool

King Lear and the Prodigal Son

King Lear Metamorphosed

Love in King Lear

Service in King Lear

Sex and Pessimism in King Lear

The Nomenclature of King Lear

The Power and Rights of the Crown in Hamlet and King Lear

The Storm in King Lear

The Structure of King Lear

The Trial Pattern in King Lear

Truth and Tragedy in King Lear

Pygmalion

A Word of Unmentionable Suffering

Having the Last Word Plot and Counter Plot

Plays of Shaw

Shaw - Women and the Body Politic

Shaw, Subjective Inequality and the Social meanings of Language

The Ending of Pygmalion

The Impact of Race, Physical Attractiveness, and Gender

The Moral Seriousness of Bernard Shaw

The Science of Professor Higgins

 

The Tempest

Ariel and the Masque in The Tempest

Caribbean and African Appropriations of The Tempest

Form and Disorder in The Tempest

Interruption in The Tempest

Knowledge in The Tempest

Music in The Tempest

Natural Supernaturalism in The Tempest

Revisiting The Tempest

The Day of The Tempest

The Integrity of The Tempest

The Sources of The Tempest

The Tempest and New Comedy

The Tempest and the British Imperium

The Tempest and the New World

The Tempest as Pastoral Romance

Understanding The Tempest

 

Oedipus:

Justice and Death in Sophocles

Oedipal Textuality Reading Freud's reading of Oedipus

Oedipus and the Tragic Spirit

Oedipus Rex as the Ideal Tragic Hero of Aristotle

Oedipus the King The Two Dramas and the Two Conflicts

Oedipus Wrecked

The Conscience of the King

The Guilt of Oedipus

The Knowing of Greek Tragedy

The Oedipus Complex and the Woman as Hero and Victim

The Specimen Story of Psychoanalysis

 

A Streetcar Named Desire

 And Transfer to Cemetery

Authorizing History Victimization in A Streetcar Named Desire

Sexual Misdemeanor and Psychoanalysis Felony

Showing or Telling Narrators in the Drama of Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams and the Predicament of Women

The Various Texts of Tennessee Williams's Plays

To Stay in New Orleans

 

The Glass Menagerie

Freud on the American Stage

Irony and Distance in The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams Dramatist of Frustration

Tennessee Williams The Catastrophe of Success

The Glass Menagerie Three Visions of Time

The Use of Drama in Teaching Family Relationships

 

Cinderella

Beyond the Disney Spell

Cinderella and Her Sisters

Cinderella and the Diffusion of Tales

Cinderella Revisited

Tale Spinners Submerged Voices in Grimms' Fairy Tales

Going up in the World Class in Cinderella

The Thieves of Language Women Poets and Revision

 

Hansel and Gretel

Breaking the Magic Spell Politics and the Fairy Tale

The Fairy Tale An Introduction to Literature

The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal

 

Sexton and Plath

Images of Domestic Madness

Plath, Rage, and the Modern Elegy

Sylvia Plath's Debt to Anne Sexton

Textual Confessions

The Big Strip Tease Female Bodies and Male Power in Plath