Papers by Jacob E . Hopkins
A discussion of the influence of Senecan tragedy on Racinian and Shakespearean tragedy, both how ... more A discussion of the influence of Senecan tragedy on Racinian and Shakespearean tragedy, both how the influence is the same and how it is different
In this paper I discuss whether the Early Modern audience of England would have seen Shylock as t... more In this paper I discuss whether the Early Modern audience of England would have seen Shylock as the bad guy or not. Using the micro-politics of England at the time and a discussion of the text, I discuss whether the play is primarily an antisemitic work or if Shakespeare had other goals in mind.
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Just a latin ode I wrote to Apollo of the first book of the Iliad
A Short examination of the English landscape garden and how the ideology behind it fits into Goet... more A Short examination of the English landscape garden and how the ideology behind it fits into Goethe's Elective Affinities as well as a discussion of how the English landscape garden is an attempt to intertwine the works of man with that of nature.
A short discussion of the nature and flaws of justice in Kleist's Prince Friedrich of Homburg
An examination of the sources and political and social purpose of the writing of Euripides' Medea
A short examination of one of Horace's Roman Odes compared with Wilfred Owen's World War One poem... more A short examination of one of Horace's Roman Odes compared with Wilfred Owen's World War One poem 'Dulce et Decorum est'
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