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the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...
variety of perspectives on Cleopatra, which serve to inform the audiences comprehension of her as a decadent foreign woman. When ...
classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...
the sinners. We must not make a scar-crow of the Law, Setting it vp to feare the Birds of prey,...
of Lady Macbeth. Some have termed her cold and calculating, others have said that she was mad, and terribly ambitious. It would ap...
in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...
again. This time, however, Bassanio urges Antonio to loan it one more time while Bassanio will bring the latter hazard back again...
the throne of Denmark. This is why Hamlet frequently verbally attacks his mother. Gertrudes role was expected to be that of wife...
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...
plot progresses, Richard allows things to develop till there is virtual defiance of his royal will. This intolerable situation o...
no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...
provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so 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...
price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...
to a degree, is honorable and chivalrous in his understanding of the couples love. All the while that the two are falling in lov...
daughter, Miranda; his faithful fairy, Ariel; and his loyal Councilor (advisor), Gonzalo. But also living there is a lifelong nat...
inasmuch as social interaction implies interacting with other persons; thus, the meaning of that interaction is always to be a joi...
the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...
the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...
or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...
that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...
speaks so eloquently that the Duke comments that Othellos tale would "win my daughter too" (Act I, Scene 3, line 171). Furthermore...
observer, the forest is depicted as a pastoral or golden world not unlike the biblical garden of Eden in two particular scenes, in...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
who informs him that he was murdered, that we note a change in Hamlet that begins to involve serious acting. In this simple exa...
secondary characters and subthemes actually deliver Shakespeares real message. The fairies in the play are of particular interest...
must reach unto" (Shakespeare I, i). When the two meet in the next scene we note that Lady Anne has absolutely no feelings for ...
soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...
assessments are largely accepted as valid (Smith Julius Caesar: An Abbreviated Textual History). Shakespeare, on the other hand, ...