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Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

the most inept such plots in theater-but we can see it as his attempt to revenge himself upon the man who stole his island from hi...

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to th...

begins to see things. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger floating before him. This serves to show the state of mi...

he is out of the country when Bolingbroke returns with an invading army. In Act II, scene 3, Bolingbroke and York, his uncle, di...

setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

in one another that is very attractive. So Romeo makes his way to her window in the night and we have the infamous balcony scene w...

staged "fights" in movies and plays, these actions are real and therefore telegraph real emotion to the audience. When Katherina s...

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...

book itself is symbolic, it has to be thought, of Prosperos secret desire to remove himself from reality and the world all togethe...

coming to the island, as well as the history of the island prior to European intrusion. Before Prospero came, the island was ruled...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

- a group ironically consisting of the very men who had conspired against Prospero - Antonio, the King, the Kings brother Sebastia...

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...