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Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

in the play. This is clear when Claudius refers to Hamlet as son and Hamlet, aside, notes, "A little more than kin, and less than ...

father in the dust" (Shakespeare I i). She also tells him that he should not make his mother worry so. In short, her role is to be...

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

the throne of Denmark. This is why Hamlet frequently verbally attacks his mother. Gertrudes role was expected to be that of wife...

In five pages this paper evaluates the sanity of Hamlet in Shakespeare's tragedy and whether or not he had lost it or had never be...

In five pages this report examines how madness crosses gender boundaries as revealed in the experiences of Ophelia and Hamlet in S...

In six pages this paper argues that Shakespeare's play was not about the misery of life but rather was a celebration of it in the ...

associated with the complexity of the sexual relationship, and its importance as a factor in the lives of human beings, just as Fr...

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

by King Claudius reveal him to be conniving, shrewd and lustful. Unlike Hamlet, who is preoccupied with questions concerning ethic...

This essay pertains to the anthropocentric worldview of King Claudius in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Machiavelli, drawing on his te...

This essay pertains to the thematic content of Shakespeare's play and provides insight into the relationships that Hamlet has with...

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...

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

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

the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

tragedy; there may be without character" (Aristotle Poetics Part VI). At this point Aristotle indicates that more often than not p...

from a popular Icelandic tale in which the lead character by the name of "Amleth" experienced similar events throughout his lifeti...

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

fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- / No more; and by a sleep to...

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 ...