Although G. B. Shaw tends to associate himself with Shakespeare in his different works, much of the difficulty understanding Shaw’s conception playwright stems from adverse criticism Shakespeare’s tragedies and comedies. When prose works are examined, it can be observed that he either praises or defames him. However, what matters us plays is impetus criticise leads revise canonical playwright’s...

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...