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something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

thou hast a mind that suits With this thy fair and outward character. I prithee, and Ill pay thee bounteously, Conceal me what I a...

with his retinue into the Forest of Arden. His daughter remains behind at Court because of her great affection for her cousin Celi...

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

of the progress which the process of democratisation was making in America in the eighteenth century. It could be asserted that Ma...

superstitious practices that were adhered to so rigidly, it should not be surprising that the citizens of the Renaissance also bel...

of his own standing among his peers would have ignored or challenged Iago. But Othello fully agrees with Iagos voiced concern that...

audience is presented with circumstances and relationships where there is never a truly positive outcome for any of those involved...

opined that, in this work, the tragic and the supernatural are synonymous: "The tragedy of Macbeth thus lies in the attempt of a m...

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax. Miranda retains a childlike innocence as a result of her idyllic existence, but at the same ti...

depression. She always expresses herself in terms of a mothers physical nurturing, poignantly showing how she believes to have fa...

Caesar with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who was at that time entering the twilight of her life.6 At the time it was initially...

For instance, Hotspur from Henry IV was actually old enough to be Prince Hals father, but Shakespeare pictured the two characters ...

also survived the wreck to conceal her true nature. Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become T...

again it was a matter of holding the government responsible for the continued injustice and oppression of not only women but ethni...

in terms of the authors or historians he used, they also generally utilized others. For example, "Holinsheds Chronicles of England...

to her and gain little quiet. Sonnet 130 This particular sonnet is actually something of a satirical sonnet addressing how many...

17-18). It is probable that their sensitive son was aware of his parents marital discord, but losing himself in books was never a...

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

poisoned herself at the end is of little consequence to Claudius. But of notable significance is the continued interaction b...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...

the fact that he is likely the only man of her social standing in the entire realm. Instead she falls for one who is nothing more ...

death of Hamlets father. Hamlet then starts to speculate about how much his mother was involved in this plot. Because of this p...

in enforcement of these laws. The laws in question are those which relate to a man being punished to death if he should lay with a...

possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...

He plots to have the Bohemian king poisoned, but Polixenes manages to flee Sicilia unharmed and return to the safety of his homela...

particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...

lightness! serious vanity!/ Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!/ Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,/ sick health!/ Stil...

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...