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identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

a man who is looking to the future. He looks to the future through his three daughters, imagining that his favorite, the youngest,...

consents not to give sovereignty (Shakespeare, Act 1, Sc. 1). However,...

appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...

and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...

offer some different scenes, though ultimately only about one quarter of Shakespeares Richard III is actually presented in the fil...

essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...

in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...

or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...

that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...

speaks so eloquently that the Duke comments that Othellos tale would "win my daughter too" (Act I, Scene 3, line 171). Furthermore...

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...

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...

leave his new bride to wage war in Cyprus. The departure, though bittersweet, returns Othello to familiar territory that renews h...

a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...

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, /...

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...

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...

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