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While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

fall upon my life" (Shakespeare I iii). In this he is leaving it all up to his wife and her father, nobly demonstrating that he do...

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...

"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...

brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...

where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...

finally restored by God to his previous state of good fortune when he realizes that, as a human being, he is insignificant next to...

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...

equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...

the first prolonged first-person account is given by Calogrenant and tells of how he ventured into the "forest of Broceliane" (De ...

quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...

a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

This paper examines how Shakespeare's depiction of women in Hamlet was a reflection of their Elizabethan social roles in eight pag...

In seven pages this paper considers Queen Elizabeth, Queen Margaret, and Lady Anne in terms of how they are treated by Richard III...

In five pages the way in which Prince Henry is depicted is evaluated with such issues as power transition and coming of age also d...

than debated, and therefore Hamlets problems cannot be solved by introspection and self-analysis. The themes also symboli...

In five pages this paper examines Hamlet's role in the deaths of certain characters in terms of whether or not he actually caused ...

II, scene 1, lines 83-181, Shakespeare pictures an interlude in which Desdemona "beguile(s)" the time before Othellos arrival at C...

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts how violence is featured in these two works of classical literature. Three source...

In eleven pages this paper discusses these plays by William Shakespeare in terms of the social status of women as depicted by the ...

In seventeen pagest this research paper commences with an original Hamlet adaptation and then focuses upon contemporary social inf...

This paper consists of five pages and provides an analysis of the manipulative Iago's character and examination of his behavior an...

The caricature representation of Richard in both film and play is discussed in ten pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliograp...