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

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...

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

with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

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

very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

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

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

him completely off-guard, Othello is completely unprepared for the "depth and intensity" (Vanita 341) of his love. Just as his pu...

so heavily reliant on the patriarchal system. She is passive and obedient, indicating that she easily goes along with the society,...

In this we are set up with a very quiet and harmless love that is only waiting for consummation. It is a pleasant little scene tha...

/ I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant / Theres nothing serious in mortality. / All is but toys; renown and grace is ...

In this way the sinfulness is likened to the darkness, since evil and dark tend to go hand in hand. And the fact that one is a mi...

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

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...

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

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...

Greek and read the Roman dramatists" (Anonymous William Shakespeare 47123316). However, in all honesty, "Very little is known abou...

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

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

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

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

the social acceptance that has been denied him because of his skin color. When Othello selects the relatively inexperienced Micha...

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

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