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essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...

appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...

and Achiles reenact the way in which Hamlet believes his father was killed by Claudius and how revenge will be exacted on the guil...

me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me saying to me Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot, o...

rich gift. O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise And make it halt...

She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, Yet a tailor might scratch her whereer she did itch: Then to sea, boys, and let her ...

pairing of Burton and Taylor in the lead roles was certain to result in a box office success for virtually any movie. Add Shakespe...

is no reason to doubt his sincerity of emotion. He is willing to go to any lengths to convince the fair lady to accept his propos...

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...

they marry or not, for there have been no grandiose expectations placed upon them to act a certain way. Benedick remarks, "That a...

plot progresses, Richard allows things to develop till there is virtual defiance of his royal will. This intolerable situation o...

the still city, which is bathed in ethereal morning light, the city is shrouded in fog. This is also symbolic, in that its white s...

provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

marriage, and to decline / Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor / To those of mine! / But virtue, as it never will be movd,...

powers of destiny, great ministers of fate. They had determined the past; they not only foresaw the future, but decreed it" (Cours...

condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...

the titled gentleman who had lots of time on his hands, dueling for the sake of principle was a favorite pastime. According to Vi...

varied character base to symbolize these developments. Prosperos relationship with his two servants, Ariel and Caliban, is partic...

the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...

he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...

say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...

to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

between Richard and the audience so as to establish an immediate intimacy. He "remains in direct contact with the spectators thro...

"Id plan and work revenge with her" (line 102). With the gods approval, Electra and Orestes set out to avenge their fathers murde...

tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...