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Essays 541 - 570
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...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
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...
blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...
But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...
that fate is not different for either of them. While they may arrive at this fate they are not different for they are both followi...
it prest With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke raised wi...
an end to Tobys activities. Even Maria has warned Toby that the Lady Olivia is growing impatient with him: "Your cousin, my lady, ...
logic. The play consists of a quartet of couples - secondary characters King Oberon and Queen Titania, and Theseus and Hippolyta;...
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...
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...
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 ...
without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...
of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invi...
my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...
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,...
play: he asks the audience to use their imaginations to understand whats going to happen. The Prologue noted that the "wooden O" c...
Prince. Despite his antic disposition or pretending to be mad as another ploy to ensnare Claudius in his revenge trap, maybe Haml...
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...
He and his cousin, are talking. Benvolio tried to stop the fight between the warring factions. He believed that to fight was ign...
we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...
might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...
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 ...
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...
relates to issues of magic and creation, and the identity of Prospero/Shakespeare. In examining this perspective the opinions and...
in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...