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coming to the island, as well as the history of the island prior to European intrusion. Before Prospero came, the island was ruled...

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...

of his day to day life that he would never be able to keep his plans from her. So, he has decided that he must pretend to sever th...

is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...

the birth of twins Judith and Hamnet, who died during infancy. Shakespeare enjoyed a very close relationship with Susanna, althou...

staged "fights" in movies and plays, these actions are real and therefore telegraph real emotion to the audience. When Katherina s...

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

are eventually reintroduced to the "regular" world and everyone finds out that John was born of Linda (his mother) and they become...

for the deaths of her husband, Edward V, and her father, Henry VI. Nevertheless, he demonstrates himself as quite capable in prov...

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

can see this is Book IV, lines 32-113. It is perhaps this section that gives us the most intricate look at the theme of religion, ...

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

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

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...

unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...

setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...

the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...

King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...

works called The Mourning Bride which was created in 1697 contains the following well known line: "Heavn has no Rage, like Love to...

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...

the most inept such plots in theater-but we can see it as his attempt to revenge himself upon the man who stole his island from hi...