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worst" (Shakespeare II ii). As such she is highly berated by all that know her, save her sister perhaps. She is ridiculed and seen...

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

the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...

demesne" (Keats PG). It is here that religion first crops up in Keats explanation. Further, the entire work is about discovery, op...

famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, followed by a talk with Ophelia. In the same act Ophelia says "My lord, I have remembrances...

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 play, and enable him to comment on the actions and feelings of his fellow characters with some distance. He is not fully inte...

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

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

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

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,...

to those who have never read the play or viewed a theatrical production. It is the story of a young Danish prince, a Wittenberg U...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

must reach unto" (Shakespeare I, i). When the two meet in the next scene we note that Lady Anne has absolutely no feelings for ...

secondary characters and subthemes actually deliver Shakespeares real message. The fairies in the play are of particular interest...

who informs him that he was murdered, that we note a change in Hamlet that begins to involve serious acting. In this simple exa...

/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...

observer, the forest is depicted as a pastoral or golden world not unlike the biblical garden of Eden in two particular scenes, in...

daughter, Miranda; his faithful fairy, Ariel; and his loyal Councilor (advisor), Gonzalo. But also living there is a lifelong nat...

inasmuch as social interaction implies interacting with other persons; thus, the meaning of that interaction is always to be a joi...

to a degree, is honorable and chivalrous in his understanding of the couples love. All the while that the two are falling in lov...

the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...

Claudio has officially erred, he truly loves Juliet and fully intends to marry her. His sin of fornication clearly does not warran...

(Aristotle). According to Aristotle, comedy involves the imitation of men who are less than average. Furthermore, Aristotle indica...

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

faced the slave, / Which neer shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseamd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fixd ...

tragedy; there may be without character" (Aristotle Poetics Part VI). At this point Aristotle indicates that more often than not p...

was, most likely, rejected for being "too young and untried" (92). When he is first introduced to the plays action, in Act I, Sce...

trained to the arts of war and government, and not toward the finer sensibilities . Therefore, Theseus supports Egeus in forcing h...