YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Plays of William Shakespeare
Essays 241 - 270
While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...
sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...
homoerotic desire" (114). Olivia and Maria embody this type of alliance. Maria is serving Olivia, literally and figuratively spe...
me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...
But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...
flies. Though that his joy be joy, / Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senato...
not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...
wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...
meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...
A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...
perception and myth, was a place characterized by both barbarianism and exoticism, inhabited by wild beasts and by people with env...
as he did during the fateful dinner when the guest at the Brabantio table was the victorious General Othello, his treasure could n...
pining away because of his unrequited love for Olivia, who also has a potential suitor in Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Olivia wants no m...
the titled gentleman who had lots of time on his hands, dueling for the sake of principle was a favorite pastime. According to Vi...
conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...
He plots to have the Bohemian king poisoned, but Polixenes manages to flee Sicilia unharmed and return to the safety of his homela...
championing the people who had initiated his ascent to power, Henry IV turned his back on them, and transformed himself into a dis...
marriage, and to decline / Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor / To those of mine! / But virtue, as it never will be movd,...
powers of destiny, great ministers of fate. They had determined the past; they not only foresaw the future, but decreed it" (Cours...
assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...
directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...
an outsider, a theme which is emphasized in most critical analyses of the play, Othellos identity as the Moor in Venice was "not a...
should take precedence over civic and social responsibilities (Goodlad). Most of the plays conflict and considerable violence is ...
faced the slave, / Which neer shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseamd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fixd ...
whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...
from a popular Icelandic tale in which the lead character by the name of "Amleth" experienced similar events throughout his lifeti...
is no reason to doubt his sincerity of emotion. He is willing to go to any lengths to convince the fair lady to accept his propos...
5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 6 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes...
the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...
the birth of twins Judith and Hamnet, who died during infancy. Shakespeare enjoyed a very close relationship with Susanna, althou...