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In four pages this essay analyzes the character of Queen Gertrude and argues that her state of denial is responsible for her actio...

In ten pages this paper presents a character analysis of Shakespeare's innovative portrayal of the tragic protagonist. There is t...

In five pages this paper discusses Prince Hamlet's identity search within the course of Shakespeare's play. There are no other so...

five-act pattern. The setup creates the plays "world", introduces us to the characters, and lays the groundwork for some of the c...

Ophelia in the process. The burden of these struggles is more than the emotionally fragile prince can bear, and when he utters th...

In three pages these sonnets are examined in an analysis of such criteria as tone, verse, symbolism, and theme. There is no bibli...

In three pges this paper contrasts and compares the characterizations of Penelope in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Desdemona in Othel...

and the tales of this one mans adventure. The man is Odysseus and his adventures are legendary. He is not a man searching for the ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way good and evil and father and son relationships in these two plays. There ...

leaves Cordelia dowerless. As luck or providence would have it, through a twist of fate, Cordelia became the queen of France. Go...

Durang's satire of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is considered in this report of five pages in which the author's succes...

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles are depicted in these two classic works of literature. Five so...

In eight pages these works are contrasted and compared in terms of the relationship between the marriage concept and the female ch...

brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...

where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...

supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...

soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...

"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

the best Shakespeare company in the world so perhaps the director might want to consider a minimalist production. The focus of th...

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

finally restored by God to his previous state of good fortune when he realizes that, as a human being, he is insignificant next to...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

fall upon my life" (Shakespeare I iii). In this he is leaving it all up to his wife and her father, nobly demonstrating that he do...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...

equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...