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

the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...

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

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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. ...

for fear Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there" (Shakespeare II i). This is a very magical surreal image, but also a very fun ...

him, he will show "great mercy" (II.ii.50). Henry then turns the discussion around to the real point of the scene. He asks the me...

an end to Tobys activities. Even Maria has warned Toby that the Lady Olivia is growing impatient with him: "Your cousin, my lady, ...

and it is something that may be thought peculiar to his Paterson experience, but it is something that many people around the world...

grows older, his hatred will also continue to grow until he hates all mankind, not just the Athenians. The fact that Timon seems...

(Foakes 23). Until this time, many directors seem to see the play as a literal fairy tale for children and staged it as such; Broo...

peoples, while accepting these belief systems, sought to integrate them into their existent cultures, rather than overthrowing the...

Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...

lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...

of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invi...

without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...

of love that can so easily change course; it seems frivolous and rather shabby, after all Orsinos protestations of love to Olivia,...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...