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and imprison-ment in the stocks. But there is something that excites in us a stronger feeling than all this-it is Violas confessio...

which make up the spectrum of everyday life of the period. Spiegel (1997), for instance, makes the point that one can see such tex...

Sir Toby Belch is Olivias kinsman and the primary comic conspirator in the play. Sir Toby treats Malvolio and Sir Andrew as fools ...

with and through broad theological propositions that include the inherent conflict between medieval and Renaissance values (Sisson...

is referring to the banter that Beatrice and Benedick engage in every time they meet. This type of banter is prevalent throughout ...

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

thinks she is ignorant because she is unsure and innocent. He feels that she is an idiot to even begin to believe the words or aff...

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...

to do so throughout the play as he plots his revenge. "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

eye"(Shakespeare Act 1, sc. 1, line 140). Thus, this first criteria and/or convention has been met. Hermia wants Lysander, bu...

harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

has to credit the famous bard for organizing the tale in to a form that has lasted and continue to inspire throughout the ages. O...

of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...

term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...

Lamb, Mary Ellen. "Tracing a Heterosexual Erotics of Service in Twelfth Night and the Autobiographical Writings of Thomas Whythor...

men pitted against one another. As a reader, and as an audience member, one does not have any sort of emotional attachment to any ...

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...

with Macbeth as Malcolm states, "Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;/ Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth/ Is ripe...

the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...

good enough for her. Another issue that Bianicas situation brings up is the sign of the times. These days, wed scratch our...

sent from God, and in return, the monarch was expected to keep their best interests at heart and to protect them. Not only h...

hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...

Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...

involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...