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

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...

with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

1949. The first soliloquy provides ample opportunity to witness the impact this has upon Hamlet, inasmuch as he simply cannot com...

him become worried at this change of character and personality. Everyone offers their opinion, but the Queen decides that she will...

In this way the sinfulness is likened to the darkness, since evil and dark tend to go hand in hand. And the fact that one is a mi...

In this we are set up with a very quiet and harmless love that is only waiting for consummation. It is a pleasant little scene tha...

/ I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant / Theres nothing serious in mortality. / All is but toys; renown and grace is ...

prior to and following the death of Elizabeth I (Kelly and Kelly 677). Through certain key scenes in Hamlet, Greenblatt contends ...

begins to see things. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger floating before him. This serves to show the state of mi...

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

as it seems. Is Hamlets revenge motivated by a desire to avenge his fathers murder or is it sparked by the betrayal he feels over...

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

may wish to add that Claudius and Gertrude both attempt to find out what is bothering Hamlet, which only serves to make it more pl...

note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...

whetted it for a more impressive title. It was a seemingly innocuous meeting with a trio of witches that would sow the seeds of M...

"A Midsummer Nights Dream" are both plays which rely heavily on this sort of humor, though they may be more refined in a sophistic...

it clear that his need for his retinue does not stem from physical need, but rather is a symbolic of his status in life, his autho...

book (Rubinstein 28). He apparently married Anne Hathaway in 1582, and their surviving children, both girls, were illiterate (Rub...

an outsider, a theme which is emphasized in most critical analyses of the play, Othellos identity as the Moor in Venice was "not a...

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

of both on the individual. Certainly, Hamlet offers insight to a man who is torn by a number of powerful emotions but who also thi...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the character of Prospero featured in William Shakespeare's final play and how this protagonist...

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a most sterile promontory; ... Man delights ...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

of Venice is highly revealing of his character. This characterization is vital to the internal logic of the play because the trag...

rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...