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

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

offer some different scenes, though ultimately only about one quarter of Shakespeares Richard III is actually presented in the fil...

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

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...

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

the sinners. We must not make a scar-crow of the Law, Setting it vp to feare the Birds of prey,...

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...

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

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

and Achiles reenact the way in which Hamlet believes his father was killed by Claudius and how revenge will be exacted on the guil...

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

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...

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

assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...

the titled gentleman who had lots of time on his hands, dueling for the sake of principle was a favorite pastime. According to Vi...

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

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

for himself - with a kiss. Her husband retorts, "Sir, would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she oft bestows o...

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 ...

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...

idle pleasures of these days. / Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous" (Shakespeare I i). In Othello Iago tells us, "And whats h...

a time and oft / In the Rialto you have rated me / About my moneys and my usances; / Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, /...