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

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...

actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

regarded as the "polite" or "formal" form of the second person (Garvey 12). The familiar use of "thou" is best illustrated throu...

Tale, and The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, As You Like It and Twelfth Night(West 180, see al...

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...

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

Romeo simply stopped at this infatuation then the tale would not have been so tragic. Romeo gets to know Juliet, and the friar aid...

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....

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

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...

Verona, Italy, where a feud has broken out between the families of the Montegues and the Capulets. The servants of both houses ope...

see that vengeance is in order. That is another classic theme in humanity. If someone were to have killed one of our parents we wo...

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 ...

to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...

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

The overall story of "The Two Noble Kinsmen" follows fairly well its primary source that is Chaucers "The Knights Tale" from his c...

which make up the spectrum of everyday life of the period. Spiegel (1997), for instance, makes the point that one can see such tex...

with and through broad theological propositions that include the inherent conflict between medieval and Renaissance values (Sisson...