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the play, and enable him to comment on the actions and feelings of his fellow characters with some distance. He is not fully inte...

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

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

even if there were a few sinful missteps along the way. However, if they put themselves and their own needs ahead of what God exp...

three months after the murder of her husband. In Measure for Measure, its protagonist is not a man of illustrious social status. ...

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

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

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

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, /...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...

he received from those closest to him, emphasizing his own over-inflated sense of importance and intellect. His overbearing natur...

fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- / No more; and by a sleep to...

"Id plan and work revenge with her" (line 102). With the gods approval, Electra and Orestes set out to avenge their fathers murde...

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 ...

to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...

he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...

to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...

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

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

volatile for no apparent reason. The conflict, in other words, has no real foundation but it is tradition. The lovers marr...

and was often able to reach accident and crime scenes before the police themselves. By doing so he had managed to capture many of...

has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...

denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...