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or knowledge which is essential to him if he is to complete his tasks and become a true hero....

men pitted against one another. As a reader, and as an audience member, one does not have any sort of emotional attachment to any ...

term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...

harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...

an outlining of the materials to be used, including the scales and subtest criteria presented in the Manual for the TSCS. Additio...

has to credit the famous bard for organizing the tale in to a form that has lasted and continue to inspire throughout the ages. O...

of him, his semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more" (Shakespeare 202). Hamlet is resigne...

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...

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...

In short, then, Othello has it all, and in Iagos eyes, he has nothing. It is apparent that Iago has worked for many years in the s...

(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...

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

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...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

the best Shakespeare company in the world so perhaps the director might want to consider a minimalist production. The focus of th...

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, "...

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...

good enough for her. Another issue that Bianicas situation brings up is the sign of the times. These days, wed scratch our...

sent from God, and in return, the monarch was expected to keep their best interests at heart and to protect them. Not only h...

finally restored by God to his previous state of good fortune when he realizes that, as a human being, he is insignificant next to...

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...