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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...

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

perception and myth, was a place characterized by both barbarianism and exoticism, inhabited by wild beasts and by people with env...

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

The steward is immediately threatened by anyone who is perceived as funnier or more intelligent than he. Olivia is the only perso...

differently in different periods of time, but the man as a writer stays very much the same. The homogeneity of his works is remark...

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...

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 "...

my cold blood, I am of your humour for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me" (Much Ado About...

Moor, and his looks and primitive demeanor are woefully out of place in civilized Venice. He may have married the esteemed Senato...

over his military service. Shortly after the wedding, he was dispatched to Famagosta, the capital of Cyprus, to battle Turkish fo...

In five pages this paper discusses the treachery of Shakespeare's protagonist in an analysis of his characterization, images, abdi...

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 ...

in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...

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...

or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...

again. This time, however, Bassanio urges Antonio to loan it one more time while Bassanio will bring the latter hazard back again...

of Lady Macbeth. Some have termed her cold and calculating, others have said that she was mad, and terribly ambitious. It would ap...

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...

In five pages this paper discusses these servants within the context of Queen Elizabeth I's 'poor laws.' Three other sources are ...

In nine pages this research paper considers various interpretations of Shakespeare's comedy. Eleven sources are cited in the bibl...