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

hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...

In short, then, Othello has it all, and in Iagos eyes, he has nothing. It is apparent that Iago has worked for many years in the s...

Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...

forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...

as he did during the fateful dinner when the guest at the Brabantio table was the victorious General Othello, his treasure could n...

the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...

humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pa...

the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...

In Sonnet 72, it becomes evident that the initial sexual flush is still very much in evidence, but the references to the distant h...

good enough for her. Another issue that Bianicas situation brings up is the sign of the times. These days, wed scratch our...

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...

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

how his takeover of the island oppressed the liberties of the natives. Prosperos character (whose name is Italian for "to prosper...

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

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...

Had they employed reason by waiting for the light of day, perhaps they would not have rushed into love, marriage, and ultimately, ...

makes men the center of her life. In fact, Beatrice makes it clear that she has no wish to marry, and thinks very little of most ...

Sir Toby Belch is Olivias kinsman and the primary comic conspirator in the play. Sir Toby treats Malvolio and Sir Andrew as fools ...

(Shakespeare I i). In this we see a subtle indication that he has ended his anger and is now humble, doing what he must in followi...

is referring to the banter that Beatrice and Benedick engage in every time they meet. This type of banter is prevalent throughout ...

and imprison-ment in the stocks. But there is something that excites in us a stronger feeling than all this-it is Violas confessio...

city, broadening his knowledge, which, in turn, improves his skill as a ruler. While there is a logical explanation for his knowle...

to Todorov, the Spaniards could not conceive of the Native Americans as "equally human but culturally different" (Berry 315). The...

also clear that Shakespeare is not writing the play from the perspective that it is about the problems of interracial marriage. I...

connection between Iagos perception of race and the cultural perception that "black" equates with "evil." This perception of race ...

speech associates her with a shrine, a religious object, and then offers up his lips as pilgrims. Pilgrims often made journeys to ...

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...