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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...

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...

of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...

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

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

Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...

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...

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 ...

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

(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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...

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, "...

brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...

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

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...

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

with Macbeth as Malcolm states, "Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;/ Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth/ Is ripe...

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

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