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

In eight pages this report examines Shakespeare's figurative language and imagery patterns featured in his second tetralogy that i...

(Henrys father) and his family from the land of their birth. Henry, initially, does not protest the banishment, as he has been ra...

In five pages this scene's functions and effect on the play are analyzed in terms of what is revealed about character or character...

In five pages this report discusses how this particular scene cements the foundation for the rest of the play's action. Five sour...

In six pages this report considers Cade's desire for Utopia as it is reflected in William Shakespeare's political and social comme...

the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...

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

Hal will give his full allegiance (Grossman 170). While the audience undoubtedly realizes, since the plot is drawn from English h...

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

from them - / As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -- / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracle...

fact that her opposition to her father by eloping with the much-older Othello reveals her internal strength, which is comparable t...

This essay is on "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare and "Doctor Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe. The writer asserts that the centra...

both politically as well as personally. For Brutus, virtue was a trait that could never be compromised for it was synonymous with...

and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...

we see Roderigo and Iago discussing the fact that this Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters ...

history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax. Miranda retains a childlike innocence as a result of her idyllic existence, but at the same ti...

better, he goes off on a tangent in which he imagines himself as the ruler of a utopian society on the island (II.1.148-156). Wh...

seem that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, the man that Othello favored for promotion over Iago. Convinced that Desdemon...

again it was a matter of holding the government responsible for the continued injustice and oppression of not only women but ethni...

Caesar with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who was at that time entering the twilight of her life.6 At the time it was initially...

For instance, Hotspur from Henry IV was actually old enough to be Prince Hals father, but Shakespeare pictured the two characters ...

Western literature, but of the world (Brustein 27). According to Bloom, Shakespeare valued personality above all other elements in...

the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...

In ten pages these pivotal banquet sequences as they appear in these two plays by William Shakespeare are examined. Eleven source...

The ways in which William Shakespeare depicted women in these tragic and comic plays are contrasted and compared in eight pages. ...