Ambition

Sorry, I'm a bit confused. Are we talking A-level or degree-level coursework here?

Thanks for reading
No, its regarding an assignment iv got to do.
whether i should use henry V and Julius Caesar to discuss ambition,or a different book from the ones listed.
or whether to leae that question altogether, and look at stage performance

Yes, and my question was what kind of assignment is this?

oh! lol. an assignmet to see how wel we've understood the module, it carried a weighting of 50% that goes to our final grade

oh! lol. an assignmet to see how wel we've understood the module, it carried a weighting of 50% that goes to our final grade

Hobnob was trying to get at what level of assignment it is i believe. As obviously degree would be a lot more complex than A/AS standard. So what is the final grade for?

OK, never mind...

For ambition, I'd say As you Like It would be the most obvious one, but you could probably find it as a more or less prominent theme in any of those plays. That's why the question is about how that theme is dramatised rather than whether it is dramatised. So if H5 and Julius Caesar were the ones which stood out most to you, then go for it. Stage performance is a completely different question, but I couldn't possibly say which one you'd find easier to write on. Sorry.

As for there not being enough resources, surely there has been tons of criticism on every single one of those plays?

lol, my bad, the assignment goes towards the2nd year of my degree grade.
well JC, H5 and RII stood out to me, and the ones i were advised to use.
i chose that question as i felt i could do it well, and there would be resources, there are criticisms on the play but not specific to the theme of ambition

Hmm, I find that a bit hard to believe... Maybe there aren't necessarily entire articles or 500-page monographs called 'Ambition in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar' or Ambitious Shakespeare or something like that, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been written about at all.
I'd say maybe it would be a good idea to widen your search a bit more, i.e. not use 'ambition' as your only search term, but have a look at the context in which ambition occurs in those plays and then read up on that. I'm pretty sure you'll come across stuff relating to the theme of ambition, even if it's not explicitly about it.

Hmm...we'll see...Thanks

You should really be beyond the point of asking for help on TSR. Nevertheless, Roger Brown and Albert Gilman's Politeness Theory and Shakespeare's Four Major Tragedies (1989) looks useful for at least two of the texts you are dealing with, and might provide a theoretical framework for the others; just copy and paste this into JSTOR.

Unfortunately, I have not read a lot of Shakespeare so the only text I can specifically with is Hamlet.