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hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...
European descent of Prospero and his belief that by taking over the rule of Caliban, he can "help" the people and bring "civilizat...
position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...
and nothing to do with the prank that Oberon is playing through Puck. They happen to enter into the midst of the chaos however, an...
(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...
and "too full of... kindness" (I.ii.77, I.v.18). Once Macbeth steps outside the bonds of the social order by killing Duncan, howev...
This essay is on "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare and "Doctor Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe. The writer asserts that the centra...
how his takeover of the island oppressed the liberties of the natives. Prosperos character (whose name is Italian for "to prosper...
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...
be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...
and now Prospero sees the opportunity to obtain justice. He charms Miranda into a deep sleep and summons the sprite Ariel, who is ...
a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...
of Cassio. Cassio was given the position, by Othello, that Iago wanted and so Iago employs the usefulness of Cassio, pretending to...
sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...
me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...
surprising that there is evidence in a number of Shakespeares plays that a female characters who is "self-aware" and "skillful" is...
not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...
a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...
flies. Though that his joy be joy, / Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senato...
surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...
"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...
equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...
Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...
your tongue: look like the innocent flower,/ But be the serpent undert" (Shakespeare I v). This is a very powerful example of how ...
brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...
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...
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...
where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...
supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...
story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...