The Many Theses

This is the general direction I am taking my paper at the moment, but I have more research to do on this literary tradition. Any instances that you've spotted would be incredibly helpful.

Thesis Types:

1. {policy}

The English landscape and pastoral life should be looked at through a different scope than Shakespeare’s plays because his version is a romanticized and unrealistic representation.

2. {definition}

The characters in Shakespeare’s plays, in particular his comedies, are understood through his use of setting to display personality traits and societal norms.

3. {evaluation}

Shakespeare’s display of the romantic English countryside is a better way to understand the literary tradition of idealizing pastoral life than that of his contemporaries and the poetry of author’s that followed him.

4. {causal}

Much of modern realism and regionalism in American literature was indirectly inspired by the representation of characters in Shakespeare’s romantic countryside.

5. {comparison}

Many readers find Shakespeare’s portrayal of pastoral and country settings to be beautiful and idealistic, but in reality they were romanticized and trumped up versions used to further the plot of the play without going into great detail about the characters themselves.