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He plots to have the Bohemian king poisoned, but Polixenes manages to flee Sicilia unharmed and return to the safety of his homela...
possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...
Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters house. In this scene, prior to Roderigo and Iagos disru...
Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...
his prowess as a warrior that has drawn Desdemona to him. When his loss of battles to fight on the actual battlefield come to an e...
her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...
the fact that he is likely the only man of her social standing in the entire realm. Instead she falls for one who is nothing more ...
death of Hamlets father. Hamlet then starts to speculate about how much his mother was involved in this plot. Because of this p...
old black ram is tupping your white ewe"(Shakespeare, Act I, sc I, li 88-89). Brabantio is Desdemonas father and as such would hav...
the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...
history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...
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...
his carefully crafted public persona. For an ambitious couple like Lord and Lady Macbeth, in a monarchy like Scotland, there was ...
a rare and precious gem. Ferdinand does fall in love with Miranda, as was Prosperos plan all along, and is willing to stay with th...
we see Roderigo and Iago discussing the fact that this Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters ...
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...
wronged, as Philomela was . . . (IV. I. 52). The book is also mentioned in Act V, scene three, when Titus asks Saturninus" the...
is portrayed in the original Shakespeare. The exception is that Shakespeare spent more time and attention to historical details, w...
the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...
5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 6 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes...
to be entertained as well. They began putting out what were known as mystery plays, passion plays, morality plays and miracle play...
and one in blood establishd; One that made means to come by what he hath, And slaughterd those that were the means to help him; Ab...
pairing of Burton and Taylor in the lead roles was certain to result in a box office success for virtually any movie. Add Shakespe...
do not assume that he would be a man who was easily swayed against this woman he loves. But, as the play progresses we see his wea...
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...
the stereotypical feminine behavior of Woolfs era. In order to be a journalist, Woolf explains how she had to kill "the Angel" and...
lightness! serious vanity!/ Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!/ Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,/ sick health!/ Stil...
corresponding syllables accurately. "Aunt JENnifeRAs TiGers PRANCe across THE screen,/Bright TOpaz DENizens OF a WORLD of GREEN" (...