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of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...

of Venice is highly revealing of his character. This characterization is vital to the internal logic of the play because the trag...

it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a most sterile promontory; ... Man delights ...

it clear that his need for his retinue does not stem from physical need, but rather is a symbolic of his status in life, his autho...

an outsider, a theme which is emphasized in most critical analyses of the play, Othellos identity as the Moor in Venice was "not a...

may wish to add that Claudius and Gertrude both attempt to find out what is bothering Hamlet, which only serves to make it more pl...

note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...

whetted it for a more impressive title. It was a seemingly innocuous meeting with a trio of witches that would sow the seeds of M...

"A Midsummer Nights Dream" are both plays which rely heavily on this sort of humor, though they may be more refined in a sophistic...

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

of his day to day life that he would never be able to keep his plans from her. So, he has decided that he must pretend to sever th...

begins to see things. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger floating before him. This serves to show the state of mi...

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

as it seems. Is Hamlets revenge motivated by a desire to avenge his fathers murder or is it sparked by the betrayal he feels over...

before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to th...

setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...

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...

King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

in one another that is very attractive. So Romeo makes his way to her window in the night and we have the infamous balcony scene w...

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...

immediately to fetch the handkerchief. Emilia, Desdemonas maid and Iagos wife, comments: 4. "Is not this man jealous?" (III.4.99)....

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...