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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...

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...

pining away because of his unrequited love for Olivia, who also has a potential suitor in Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Olivia wants no m...

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

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...

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

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...

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....

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

with a family with a young child, she takes a liking to him and when "child cried so much after me that nothing could pacify her t...

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

love for her. It 8s also worth noting, that despite the clear and eloquent words, t no point in the pay do we see Hero and Claudio...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...

and how do his views regarding death change throughout the course of the play? Why Does Hamlet Die at the End?...