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but around him revolve some of the most significant issues of this extremely complex play. Feste, whom George Steiner calls "Shak...
offer some different scenes, though ultimately only about one quarter of Shakespeares Richard III is actually presented in the fil...
rich gift. O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise And make it halt...
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, Yet a tailor might scratch her whereer she did itch: Then to sea, boys, and let her ...
pairing of Burton and Taylor in the lead roles was certain to result in a box office success for virtually any movie. Add Shakespe...
is no reason to doubt his sincerity of emotion. He is willing to go to any lengths to convince the fair lady to accept his propos...
appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...
classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...
consents not to give sovereignty (Shakespeare, Act 1, Sc. 1). However,...
the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...
price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...
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...
the titled gentleman who had lots of time on his hands, dueling for the sake of principle was a favorite pastime. According to Vi...
again. This time, however, Bassanio urges Antonio to loan it one more time while Bassanio will bring the latter hazard back again...
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...
A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...
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...
be the corrupt individual that he is. That said we move on with a discussion of Othellos jealousy. Othello is convinced, through...
powers of destiny, great ministers of fate. They had determined the past; they not only foresaw the future, but decreed it" (Cours...
as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...
varied character base to symbolize these developments. Prosperos relationship with his two servants, Ariel and Caliban, is partic...
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...
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...
provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...