Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: This paper will analyze the different themes of several classic novels and plays. The examined works are Bram Stoker's Dracula, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, and the two short stories from James Joyce's Dubliners, "Evelin" and "Counterparts".