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as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...

(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

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...

term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...

- a group ironically consisting of the very men who had conspired against Prospero - Antonio, the King, the Kings brother Sebastia...

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

both politically as well as personally. For Brutus, virtue was a trait that could never be compromised for it was synonymous with...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

European descent of Prospero and his belief that by taking over the rule of Caliban, he can "help" the people and bring "civilizat...

her brothers wrongful imprisonment she requests an audience with Angelo. When she asks for her brothers release Angelo is so taken...

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

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

deal of support for the fact that Machiavelli always had the interests of the people at heart. Much of The Prince revolves around ...

seriously ill and needs a change in climate to regain his health, Nora is forced to take drastic measures in order to finance such...

town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

Western literature, but of the world (Brustein 27). According to Bloom, Shakespeare valued personality above all other elements in...

the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...

fact that her opposition to her father by eloping with the much-older Othello reveals her internal strength, which is comparable t...

of Tennessee Williams"). To relieve his boredom, Williams wrote at night but he broke down, depressed, after the breakup with Kram...

of the American theater; it is also one of the first to combine realism and symbolism successfully. This paper discusses Williamss...

seems that Hearst brought in representatives to look and find flaws that would give him power. One article states how, "The lawyer...

he will abstain until all votes are in. If they still unanimously vote for conviction, he will go along with the majority, but if ...

Within these tragedies, the unfortunate fate of the hero or heroine is usually determined by some type of sexual desire. The them...

William Shakespeare's comedy is analyzed in terms of how the relationships of Olivia and Orsino, Cesario/Viola and Orsino, and Ces...

This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...

Lye, Derrida and others, then The Glass Menagerie is a perfect play to apply this technique to, because it is full of silences, me...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...