YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comedy and Tragedy of William Shakespeare
Essays 511 - 540
an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...
father speaking to him, or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, th...
Taking the skull, for example: it is obvious that the term skull refers to a particular object, or a group of objects, which have ...
this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...
The overall story of "The Two Noble Kinsmen" follows fairly well its primary source that is Chaucers "The Knights Tale" from his c...
Sir Toby Belch is Olivias kinsman and the primary comic conspirator in the play. Sir Toby treats Malvolio and Sir Andrew as fools ...
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 ...
Verona, Italy, where a feud has broken out between the families of the Montegues and the Capulets. The servants of both houses ope...
most notably, but not really missed, were Queen Margaret, and Edward IV. Some of the lengthy dialogue was taken out without detrac...
feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...
one day become king of Scotland is music to the warriors ears. He is a respected figure in his homeland, but he (and his ever-per...
a man who is perhaps willing to sit back and let prophecy go its own course, without intervention from him. This is evidenced when...
to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...
the best Shakespeare company in the world so perhaps the director might want to consider a minimalist production. The focus of th...
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...
especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...
life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...
shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...
in bed" (III.ii.206-209), then following-up with the equally matter of fact declaration, "If, once a widow, ever I be wife!" (III....
subject which had been taboo in Shakespeares time - with Ophelia), betrayal (Queen Gertrudes incestuous marriage to her brother-in...
who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...
story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...
good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...
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...
When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...
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...
"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...