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involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

the best Shakespeare company in the world so perhaps the director might want to consider a minimalist production. The focus of th...

finally restored by God to his previous state of good fortune when he realizes that, as a human being, he is insignificant next to...

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...

the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...

with Macbeth as Malcolm states, "Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;/ Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth/ Is ripe...

While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...

the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...

be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...

a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...

where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...

supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...

which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...

soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...

"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...

Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...

equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

fall upon my life" (Shakespeare I iii). In this he is leaving it all up to his wife and her father, nobly demonstrating that he do...

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...

addition of many new devices such as PDAs internet connected vehicles, wireless services and IP telephony. There had already been ...

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

logic. The play consists of a quartet of couples - secondary characters King Oberon and Queen Titania, and Theseus and Hippolyta;...