Month: October 2022
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All’s Well That Ends Well (1602)
1. All’s Well That Ends Well (1602) Based on the ninth tale of the third day in Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, the Decameron. Completed in 1353, the Decameron is a collection of one hundred short stories told by friends over ten days during the Black Death. William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest…
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The Mary Sue’s Journey
The concept of the Mary Sue character has been a controversial topic in literature and media for years. The term originally came from fan fiction and referred to an idealized and perfect self-insert character. In recent times, the term has been expanded to describe any character, regardless of gender, who is seemingly flawless and overpowered,…