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provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...

they marry or not, for there have been no grandiose expectations placed upon them to act a certain way. Benedick remarks, "That a...

Moor, and his looks and primitive demeanor are woefully out of place in civilized Venice. He may have married the esteemed Senato...

over his military service. Shortly after the wedding, he was dispatched to Famagosta, the capital of Cyprus, to battle Turkish fo...

In five pages this paper discusses the treachery of Shakespeare's protagonist in an analysis of his characterization, images, abdi...

alienate himself from his mother, uncle, fianc?e Ophelia and his old school chums, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. The lone confide...

my cold blood, I am of your humour for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me" (Much Ado About...

differently in different periods of time, but the man as a writer stays very much the same. The homogeneity of his works is remark...

no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...

plot progresses, Richard allows things to develop till there is virtual defiance of his royal will. This intolerable situation o...

the still city, which is bathed in ethereal morning light, the city is shrouded in fog. This is also symbolic, in that its white s...

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares Shakespeare's tragedy with the epic by Homer. Five sources are cited in ...

In five pages this research paper examines how irony is used in these tragedies in a comparison and contrast of characters and the...

In five pages this character analysis of Claudius focuses on ethical values with a contrast and comparison between Prince Hamlet a...

In five pages this paper analyzes the character of Ophelia and the role she plays in this tragedy in terms of how other characters...

sign of madness was, in reality, a genuine declaration of affection. Ophelia is the only character with whom Hamlet can, at least...

In five pages this paper discusses the play's second scene in Act II and the first scene in Act III in a consideration of the func...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the vengeance and madness of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Melville's Captain Ahab. Sev...

In seven pages these two works are contrasted and compared with the focus being on Clegg's terror reign depicted by John Fowles an...

In five pages this paper discusses the way in which each generation's audiences has responded to King Lear, relating it to their o...

In six pages this paper discusses how Caesar's own ego and refusal to listen to cautionary voices that resulted in his murder. Th...

in, on the basis of her gender. Coriolanus was an extremely dutiful son, and his single-minded focus was in becoming the courageo...

assessments are largely accepted as valid (Smith Julius Caesar: An Abbreviated Textual History). Shakespeare, on the other hand, ...

(Henrys father) and his family from the land of their birth. Henry, initially, does not protest the banishment, as he has been ra...

In five pages this paper discusses how the characters in this Shakespearean tragedy are better understood through the metaphors of...

In six pages this paper presents a definition of tragedy and explains how Othello structurally fits within the parameters establis...

In five pages this research paper examines how symbolism is used in this Shakespearean tragedy. Two sources are cited in the bibl...

In eight pages this paper discusses the theatrical portrayals of Othello, Desdemona, and Iago in comparison with the films by Well...