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well as a "Barbary horse" (I.i.111). As this indicates, the two men are particularly repulsed at the thought of Othello and Desd...

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

at war with the Turks, that not all of Othellos men are loyal to him, and that there remains a great deal of cultural suspicion ab...

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...

he doubts her, believing the words of others, one can see that he is a very insecure man where his love is concerned. In the cas...

relates to issues of magic and creation, and the identity of Prospero/Shakespeare. In examining this perspective the opinions and...

play: he asks the audience to use their imaginations to understand whats going to happen. The Prologue noted that the "wooden O" c...

Prince. Despite his antic disposition or pretending to be mad as another ploy to ensnare Claudius in his revenge trap, maybe Haml...

she wants to be as close to the seat of power as possible and will do anything to keep her power as queen" and this sets him on a ...

creature in the vessel" (Shakespeare I ii). This indicates that he set the storm in motion and ensured no one was hurt in the proc...

impose magic and enchantment to seek his revenge. But, in the end he forgives those who put him on the island and he suffers a sea...

without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...

him, he will show "great mercy" (II.ii.50). Henry then turns the discussion around to the real point of the scene. He asks the me...

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...

an end to Tobys activities. Even Maria has warned Toby that the Lady Olivia is growing impatient with him: "Your cousin, my lady, ...

logic. The play consists of a quartet of couples - secondary characters King Oberon and Queen Titania, and Theseus and Hippolyta;...

might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

He and his cousin, are talking. Benvolio tried to stop the fight between the warring factions. He believed that to fight was ign...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...

ignore Lady Macbeths continual rants and her role in all of it. Just as the man who is "henpecked" claims that his wife drives him...

the church, so most scholars put his birthday as the 23rd of April, 1564 (Hanna - Life). John Shakespeare was a "prominent and pro...

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

tend to overlook all the rest" (Chandler, 2000). If we didnt sort things out in this way, we would be overwhelmed with stimuli (Ch...

in the play. This is clear when Claudius refers to Hamlet as son and Hamlet, aside, notes, "A little more than kin, and less than ...

Cassius proposed that they assassinate Antony also, Brutus opposed it. He argued that the assassination of another man would make ...