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Unburdend crawl toward death", states King Lear in the opening act. Having decided to step down from the throne, King Lear has pos...

And dig deep trenches in thy beautys field, Thy youths proud livery so gazed on now, Will be a totterd...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

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

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

composing sonnets was considered a necessary endeavor when courting someone (Goldenberg). For example, a man of any position would...

Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand For many poets the overall purpose of the poem has...

relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

This denial of friendship prompts the poet to allude to the language of the Gospels and the denial of Peter towards Christ (Comm...

will never get a husband if she behaves in such a way. This offers us a very powerful image of how the patriarchal system of Sh...

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

is symbolic of life. Man hopefully lives a long, full life full of many experiences that culminate to form the "autumn" of the in...

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

and one in blood establishd; One that made means to come by what he hath, And slaughterd those that were the means to help him; Ab...

rescue her from her loneliness. With Jessica the first hint of desire or romance comes when she asks Launcelot to give Lorenzo a n...

this theme together" (Universe). In combination with this theme, the theme of foolishness, is the theme of disguise. In summari...

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

his carefully crafted public persona. For an ambitious couple like Lord and Lady Macbeth, in a monarchy like Scotland, there was ...

and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...

a rare and precious gem. Ferdinand does fall in love with Miranda, as was Prosperos plan all along, and is willing to stay with th...

wronged, as Philomela was . . . (IV. I. 52). The book is also mentioned in Act V, scene three, when Titus asks Saturninus" the...

with the help of Worcester, Northumberland and Hotspur, (the Percy family) deposed and murdered King Richard. Bolingbroke is now K...

should take precedence over civic and social responsibilities (Goodlad). Most of the plays conflict and considerable violence is ...

He plots to have the Bohemian king poisoned, but Polixenes manages to flee Sicilia unharmed and return to the safety of his homela...

particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...

in enforcement of these laws. The laws in question are those which relate to a man being punished to death if he should lay with a...

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

to be entertained as well. They began putting out what were known as mystery plays, passion plays, morality plays and miracle play...