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Athens and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Although the setting is Athens, Shakespeare originally staged the production at the Globe ...

be able to control the otherwise innocent Macbeths actions, or if he is entirely responsible for his own demise" (Riedel Witches.h...

Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...

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...

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...

or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, there is a third option, w...

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...

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

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

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

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...

true circumstances of her first husbands death, and the exact nature of her guilt. There does not appear to be much in the play th...

say, shows that how each man reacted to this situation was a matter of choice -- not fate. Traditionally, much of the blame for ...

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

indicates, Lady Macbeth provides the necessary motivation for the initial murder. She tells Macbeth that if she had sworn an oath ...

verbal appearance and actual reality that Othello addresses throughout the play, wavering back and forth as a means by which to es...

abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...

agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...

but she keeps her emotions in check so that she can carry off her masquerade as a man. When Rosalind confronts the Dukes accusat...

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....

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...

on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of t...

who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...

a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...

lover on the edge of being lost. Donne promises that lover that if she abides with the callers wished she will be rewarded with g...

appears to be Lucentio, but should he be unable to produce his father (which would verify his lineage and financial status), then ...

for the rest of the world, There will never, never be another Laurence Olivier" (69). The article goes on to report that at the "s...

power was not necessarily through the might of his military, but from the popularity of a kings subjects. In Henry V, ther...