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as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...
might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...
book itself is symbolic, it has to be thought, of Prosperos secret desire to remove himself from reality and the world all togethe...
coming to the island, as well as the history of the island prior to European intrusion. Before Prospero came, the island was ruled...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...
her innocence and lack of understanding in her words as she dies, words that do not even point to Othellos guilt as Emilia asks he...
tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...
- a group ironically consisting of the very men who had conspired against Prospero - Antonio, the King, the Kings brother Sebastia...
Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...
Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...
with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...
begins to see things. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger floating before him. This serves to show the state of mi...
setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...
the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...
confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...
the most inept such plots in theater-but we can see it as his attempt to revenge himself upon the man who stole his island from hi...
Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...
of as gold, silver and slate. Gold is the level where there is a situation for a man where the girl loves him wholeheartedly. He...
(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...
air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...
resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...
a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...
Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...
the birth of twins Judith and Hamnet, who died during infancy. Shakespeare enjoyed a very close relationship with Susanna, althou...
is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...
It also sets the stage for the viewer/reader to know the foundations of history concerning the families when Romeo and Juliet firs...
Ophelia: More than Just Friends? A Palace Source Tells All"). Then there is also the almost-incestuous relationship between Haml...
his lovers eyes he is saying, "When I look in your eyes/ There I see/ What all that a love should really be" (Vandross 24-26). He ...
Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....