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and Streisand would go on to star in a host of notable roles. This was an important show from a political and social...
have adopted something of a double standard. They have expected her to behave in the modest and subservient way which is usual for...
spectator into the action, Brechts goal was to place the spectator outside the action as an observer, but one who is actively invo...
suicide. When Judge Brack discerns Heddas role in Lovborgs suicide, he threatens blackmail and Hedda, too, commits suicide. Why ...
expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...
tells Desdemonas father that he must act quickly else "youll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (I.1.112-113). As p...
was the wife of King Priam and the mother of Hector, who was killed by Achilles. Her other son; Polydorus was means to be safe as ...
what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...
"Master Harold and the Boys" was first performed at Yale Repertory Theatre on March 12, 1982. Set in...
"Master Harold and the Boys" was first performed at Yale Repertory Theatre on March 12, 1982. Set in 1950 Apartheid South...
of Oedipus, the man who kills his father and marries his mother, is actually older than Sophocless version of the story. Its timel...
is a social climber; and she has no respect for her husband or his scholarship, finding it and him both incredibly boring. She is ...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
lovd me for the dangers I had passd / And I lovd her that she did pity them" (I.iii.167-168). Pity here doesnt mean that she was s...
Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...
ever written, and it continues to excite audiences because of Shakespeares masterful examination of the psychological aspects of i...
affection for his father is very close to hero-worship; he loves the man with the same degree of loathing that he feels for his fa...
the man is very chaotic, regardless of mental illness. With this simple illustration in mind the first thing that one can argue is...
Hamlet is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...
soliloquies: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I," (II.ii.550) in which Hamlet discourses on the art of the theater, and compar...
Wittenberg in order to attend his fathers funeral, and although he is melancholy, he is not yet acting openly against the king. In...
place and who that person is. Throughout the play Hamlet is seemingly confused in many instances, which again embodies the theme...
even if there were a few sinful missteps along the way. However, if they put themselves and their own needs ahead of what God exp...
remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...
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...
Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all dead. This is a bleak, tragic world, which is why...
not of noble blood and its no good for her to dream about marrying a prince "out of thy star; / This must not be" (II.ii.141-142)....
reader wonder why hes reacting so strongly. Hamlet is a college student, and although no child wants to believe that their parents...
wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...
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 ...