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say "I know thee not, old man," (V.v.47) dashing any hopes Falstaff had of becoming his confidante and the power behind the throne...

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

it was smiling in my face, Have pluckd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done...

without power, who plays the role of the colonizer. He is a teacher and a controller of the story itself, thus he serves as a symb...

spirited figure of St George in armour, expressing in the head of this saint the beauty of youth, courage and valour in arms, and ...

"teach" him "how to think and speak" (3.2.35) and "create" him new" (3.2.41), which is a reversal of the Elizabethan gender stereo...

is young and ignorant and she lies to him about many things. But, he is happy in this, for truth is far more demanding and it is e...

theme of servitude and freedom" (Smith 1608). We learn that Ariel was once the servant of the witch Sycorax, who was banished from...

in front of her. In these two lines she faces defeat as she envisions her power in the image of less than a simple milk maid, a se...

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

preserve her image against the confusion of emotions and her denied lust for Benedick" (BookLore). Beatrice is essentially a res...

is served by an earthy, half-demon by the name of Caliban and a sprite named Ariel. In the course of the play, we learn that Prosp...

volatile for no apparent reason. The conflict, in other words, has no real foundation but it is tradition. The lovers marr...

has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...

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

slightly surreal way, youthful innocence. Juliets bedroom, for instance, is full of images of the Virgin Mary: an interesting vari...

mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore, he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with ...

will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...

ever see a production of the original play. In light of such information we can assume that, in their original context, both stori...

in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...

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

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...

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

and suggests that he does not deserve his place in English letters. He quotes a number of other critics to support his view. This ...

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

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

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

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...

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 ...