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William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Supernatural

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

William Shakespeare's Richard the Third and Its Cinematic Interpretations

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

William Shakespeare's Characters Macduff and Macbeth

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...

Persuasiveness of Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

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...

Injustice and Vengeance in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Euripides' Electra

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

Handkerchief Significance in William Shakespeare's Othello

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

Uncertain Vision in "Oedipus the King" and "Othello"

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Images of Night and Day

the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Subplot

a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Human Capacity for Evil

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

An Article on the Influences of Shakespeare Summarized

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...

Role of Bianca in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

good enough for her. Another issue that Bianicas situation brings up is the sign of the times. These days, wed scratch our...

Suffering in William Shakespeare's King Lear and the Book of Job

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

William Shakespeare's King Lear and the Representation of Edmund as a Power Opportunist

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

Climaxes in William Shakespeare's King Lear

there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...

Fourth Act of William Shakespeare's Macbeth

with Macbeth as Malcolm states, "Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;/ Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth/ Is ripe...

Othello and Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello

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...

What a Director Should Know about a Production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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

'The Merchant's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing and Issues of Gender and Loyalty

makes men the center of her life. In fact, Beatrice makes it clear that she has no wish to marry, and thinks very little of most ...

Jealousy and Love in William Shakespeare's Othello

to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Politics

Verona, Italy, where a feud has broken out between the families of the Montegues and the Capulets. The servants of both houses ope...

3 Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Richard III

most notably, but not really missed, were Queen Margaret, and Edward IV. Some of the lengthy dialogue was taken out without detrac...

Historically Accurate Staging of William Shakespeare's Comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream

Athens and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Although the setting is Athens, Shakespeare originally staged the production at the Globe ...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Stages of Decline

a man who is perhaps willing to sit back and let prophecy go its own course, without intervention from him. This is evidenced when...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Power

be able to control the otherwise innocent Macbeths actions, or if he is entirely responsible for his own demise" (Riedel Witches.h...

Banquet Scene and What Macbeth Actually Saw in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

prophetic apparitions make appearances(Shakespeare & Supernatural). One of the most climactic scenes in the play is the banquet ...

William Shakespeare's King Lear, Measure for Measure, and Justice

Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...

William Shakespeare's Othello Act I and Iago's Persuasiveness

(Shakespeare I i). In this we see a subtle indication that he has ended his anger and is now humble, doing what he must in followi...

William Shakespeare's Histories and New Historicist Criticism

which make up the spectrum of everyday life of the period. Spiegel (1997), for instance, makes the point that one can see such tex...