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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...

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, /...

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

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

if there is no hope at the end. Several other similarities exist between Antony and Cleopatra and other Shakespeare plays. Bits ...

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

romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...

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

readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...

variety of perspectives on Cleopatra, which serve to inform the audiences comprehension of her as a decadent foreign woman. When ...

the only thing they share: "Othello reveals a more detailed acknowledgment of Desdemonas sexual appeal. As he discusses her death ...

Ill follow thee and make a heaven of hell,/ to die upon the hand I love so well" (Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene 1, lines 241-244). W...

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,...

This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

In this introduction to the character of Titus it is obvious that he is well regarded and that he has a reputation of being a nobl...

In the beginning of the play one sees how Willy has no respect for his son Biff. He argues with his wife saying "Biff is a lazy bu...

and is killed. Henry then becomes King Henry VII. Richard is "not a good man who, when tempted falls, and who, when fallen, hopes...

example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...

explores the seamy side of city life. In fact, the novels central theme is the horrible treatment endured by the poor and those wh...

then Ill tell her plain She sings as sweetly as the nightingale: Say that she frown: Ill say she looks as clear As morning roses ...

father in the dust" (Shakespeare I i). She also tells him that he should not make his mother worry so. In short, her role is to be...

as Shakespeare used it, and as we know it today, is different; in other cases, it has changed completely (Vernon). For example, th...

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

heath. There is something essentially uncivilized about Macbeth, which may be why he is such an outstanding soldier. Macduff does...

visit is an old school friend of the son and daughter. In the play there is a similar sense of expectation involving this man as T...