zoom in” on what you consider an important component of the text, a key to understanding it—for example, a specific idea, recurring image, pivotal scene, conflict, symbol, or formal attribute. You must explain its importance to your reader, and construct a compelling argument about how it contributes to the meaning or impact of the drama as a whole. Your argument should be grounded in close readings of key passages from the text. In addition to this, an exceptional paper will illuminate how the play in question is conditioned by its historical, sociocultural, and/or political contexts.
