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Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

- a group ironically consisting of the very men who had conspired against Prospero - Antonio, the King, the Kings brother Sebastia...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

staged "fights" in movies and plays, these actions are real and therefore telegraph real emotion to the audience. When Katherina s...

confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...

book itself is symbolic, it has to be thought, of Prosperos secret desire to remove himself from reality and the world all togethe...

coming to the island, as well as the history of the island prior to European intrusion. Before Prospero came, the island was ruled...

supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

the birth of twins Judith and Hamnet, who died during infancy. Shakespeare enjoyed a very close relationship with Susanna, althou...

of his day to day life that he would never be able to keep his plans from her. So, he has decided that he must pretend to sever th...

is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...

may wish to add that Claudius and Gertrude both attempt to find out what is bothering Hamlet, which only serves to make it more pl...

note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...

whetted it for a more impressive title. It was a seemingly innocuous meeting with a trio of witches that would sow the seeds of M...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

of Venice is highly revealing of his character. This characterization is vital to the internal logic of the play because the trag...

rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...

"A Midsummer Nights Dream" are both plays which rely heavily on this sort of humor, though they may be more refined in a sophistic...

it clear that his need for his retinue does not stem from physical need, but rather is a symbolic of his status in life, his autho...

book (Rubinstein 28). He apparently married Anne Hathaway in 1582, and their surviving children, both girls, were illiterate (Rub...

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...