Shakespeare sets the stage in the first few acts of his play Hamlet. Hamlet the king has just died while his son the protagonist Hamlet...

In the second half of the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar , Brutus has already aided in Caesar’s death, now what? Soon after Marc...

“Et tu, Brute?” One of the most common examples of betrayal is when Julius Caesar’s best friend participated in his murder. What got...

Canto ten of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene  is set in the House of Holiness. Una took the Redcrosse Knight there to help him heal...

In canto 4 of Book 1 of The Faerie Queene  by Edmund Spenser, there is a lot of focus on the seven deadly sins, and the characters...

In Canto 8 of Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queene, the main antagonist Duessa unveils her true form. Stories use appearances to highlight...

The Greeks watched the changing of seasons Flowers come and go the sun rise and set The people watched and wanted a reason Dreaming...

In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the wife of Bath had married five times and she described each marriage before telling a tale of a knight...

The Prose Edda  has many sections, and within each section there are sometimes a dozen stories. Mentionable sections for now include...

About half way through the "Gylfaginning" in the Prose Edda , there is a section between the setup, introduction to new characters, and...

The Proslogian was an idea that Saint Anselm wrote in Middle English about the concept of God and the most logical answer for why there...

Beowulf is a classic poem, sometimes categorized as an epic poem. It’s a fiction, although it may have elements of history in its side...

Beowulf , an old English poem set hundreds of years before it was written, during the times the Vikings were beginning the conversion to...

The Dream of the Rood  is one of the oldest Old English poems, Rood  being an Anglo-Saxon word for cross. It is a short poem describing...