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

offer some different scenes, though ultimately only about one quarter of Shakespeares Richard III is actually presented in the fil...

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

pairing of Burton and Taylor in the lead roles was certain to result in a box office success for virtually any movie. Add Shakespe...

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...

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

and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...

all the players in the love triangle. But, they are also more than that. All three characters embody some of the ideology that was...

of what the Greek gods did to human beings when offended. Niobe was a proud mother of many children and she bragged that she had m...

consents not to give sovereignty (Shakespeare, Act 1, Sc. 1). However,...

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

readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...

that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...

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

told that Death took his life. Quite in the drunken state they vow to find Death and to make him pay. They find directions to wh...

of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...

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...

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

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

he is out of the country when Bolingbroke returns with an invading army. In Act II, scene 3, Bolingbroke and York, his uncle, di...

will marry, her childhood sweetheart who may be a poor tailor, but she is her true love and she will not agree to marry anything l...

he would have to address. This information provides him with a foundational understanding of the various kingdoms and allows him t...

idle pleasures of these days. / Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous" (Shakespeare I i). In Othello Iago tells us, "And whats h...

a time and oft / In the Rialto you have rated me / About my moneys and my usances; / Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, /...

do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...

foundation for the story through an examination of the region itself, thus perhaps further adding to a con approach to the charact...

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

the church, so most scholars put his birthday as the 23rd of April, 1564 (Hanna - Life). John Shakespeare was a "prominent and pro...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...