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the most inept such plots in theater-but we can see it as his attempt to revenge himself upon the man who stole his island from hi...
decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...
his lovers eyes he is saying, "When I look in your eyes/ There I see/ What all that a love should really be" (Vandross 24-26). He ...
is so black that it seems like death itself. The inference we have to make here is that he is dying, or at least is old enough to ...
It also sets the stage for the viewer/reader to know the foundations of history concerning the families when Romeo and Juliet firs...
Ophelia: More than Just Friends? A Palace Source Tells All"). Then there is also the almost-incestuous relationship between Haml...
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 Midsummer Nights Dream" are both plays which rely heavily on this sort of humor, though they may be more refined in a sophistic...
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 Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...
resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...
Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...
air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...
is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...
of his day to day life that he would never be able to keep his plans from her. So, he has decided that he must pretend to sever th...
the birth of twins Judith and Hamnet, who died during infancy. Shakespeare enjoyed a very close relationship with Susanna, althou...
of as gold, silver and slate. Gold is the level where there is a situation for a man where the girl loves him wholeheartedly. He...
book itself is symbolic, it has to be thought, of Prosperos secret desire to remove himself from reality and the world all togethe...
coming to the island, as well as the history of the island prior to European intrusion. Before Prospero came, the island was ruled...
confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...
supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...
as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...
staged "fights" in movies and plays, these actions are real and therefore telegraph real emotion to the audience. When Katherina s...
the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...
things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...
with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...
her innocence and lack of understanding in her words as she dies, words that do not even point to Othellos guilt as Emilia asks he...