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Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...

Bards most impressive works, and for many, the archetypal ideal of a narrative "tragedy". The reason behind Othellos reputation is...

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

opens by referred to her distant husband not by his titular name, but by his holdings and titles of lordship: "Glamis thou art", s...

at war with the Turks, that not all of Othellos men are loyal to him, and that there remains a great deal of cultural suspicion ab...

and suggests that he does not deserve his place in English letters. He quotes a number of other critics to support his view. This ...

grows older, his hatred will also continue to grow until he hates all mankind, not just the Athenians. The fact that Timon seems...

(Foakes 23). Until this time, many directors seem to see the play as a literal fairy tale for children and staged it as such; Broo...

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

of love that can so easily change course; it seems frivolous and rather shabby, after all Orsinos protestations of love to Olivia,...

of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invi...

without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno and the impact of exile on the protagonists. Four pages in leng...

he doubts her, believing the words of others, one can see that he is a very insecure man where his love is concerned. In the cas...

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

an end to Tobys activities. Even Maria has warned Toby that the Lady Olivia is growing impatient with him: "Your cousin, my lady, ...

for fear Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there" (Shakespeare II i). This is a very magical surreal image, but also a very fun ...

him, he will show "great mercy" (II.ii.50). Henry then turns the discussion around to the real point of the scene. He asks the me...

sign of love for the two, likely having been together for a long time, demonstrate that love is by no means unchanging and without...

Cassius proposed that they assassinate Antony also, Brutus opposed it. He argued that the assassination of another man would make ...

in the play. This is clear when Claudius refers to Hamlet as son and Hamlet, aside, notes, "A little more than kin, and less than ...

but at a very high cost. He requires a pound of flesh for debts not paid and this is literally what it sounds like, for a pound of...

tend to overlook all the rest" (Chandler, 2000). If we didnt sort things out in this way, we would be overwhelmed with stimuli (Ch...

ignore Lady Macbeths continual rants and her role in all of it. Just as the man who is "henpecked" claims that his wife drives him...

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...

keep him out of their clutches: "Because I would not see thy cruel nails / Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor they fierce sister / I...

play: he asks the audience to use their imaginations to understand whats going to happen. The Prologue noted that the "wooden O" c...

she wants to be as close to the seat of power as possible and will do anything to keep her power as queen" and this sets him on a ...

creature in the vessel" (Shakespeare I ii). This indicates that he set the storm in motion and ensured no one was hurt in the proc...

impose magic and enchantment to seek his revenge. But, in the end he forgives those who put him on the island and he suffers a sea...