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between Richard and the audience so as to establish an immediate intimacy. He "remains in direct contact with the spectators thro...

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

line indicates how Iago begins to chip away Othellos confidence in his lieutenant and his wife, as Iago insinuates there is someth...

leave his new bride to wage war in Cyprus. The departure, though bittersweet, returns Othello to familiar territory that renews h...

that sounds like ritualistic chanting: FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? / In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND ...

directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...

condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...

a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...

say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

really be proven wrong, and the only thing that Othello has to go on is really the word of his wife who he ultimately disbelieves....

writing, Columbus vacillates between viewing the American natives as subjects of either the Chinese or Japanese emperors, as he th...

the church, so most scholars put his birthday as the 23rd of April, 1564 (Hanna - Life). John Shakespeare was a "prominent and pro...

focused on Shakespeares perspectives on innocence and its consequences. As envisioned by Shakespeare according to his stage direc...

tragic deaths of Lear and Cordelia. Therefore, many modern readers and critics regard the plays conclusion as being devoid of red...

from them - / As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -- / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracle...

heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...

he would have to address. This information provides him with a foundational understanding of the various kingdoms and allows him t...

do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...

a purpose that is perhaps very subtle. In the beginning of this play we know that there is great tension between England and Fr...

Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...

he is out of the country when Bolingbroke returns with an invading army. In Act II, scene 3, Bolingbroke and York, his uncle, di...

demesne" (Keats PG). It is here that religion first crops up in Keats explanation. Further, the entire work is about discovery, op...

famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, followed by a talk with Ophelia. In the same act Ophelia says "My lord, I have remembrances...

took the time to teach him a "proper" language, and not the "gabble" that he spoke when she and her father first arrived. Caliba...

worst" (Shakespeare II ii). As such she is highly berated by all that know her, save her sister perhaps. She is ridiculed and seen...

romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...

the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...

classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...

appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...