YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Sonnet 138 by William Shakespeare
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rich gift. O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise And make it halt...
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, Yet a tailor might scratch her whereer she did itch: Then to sea, boys, and let her ...
pairing of Burton and Taylor in the lead roles was certain to result in a box office success for virtually any movie. Add Shakespe...
is no reason to doubt his sincerity of emotion. He is willing to go to any lengths to convince the fair lady to accept his propos...
and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...
essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...
heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...
demesne" (Keats PG). It is here that religion first crops up in Keats explanation. Further, the entire work is about discovery, op...
famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, followed by a talk with Ophelia. In the same act Ophelia says "My lord, I have remembrances...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...
took the time to teach him a "proper" language, and not the "gabble" that he spoke when she and her father first arrived. Caliba...
worst" (Shakespeare II ii). As such she is highly berated by all that know her, save her sister perhaps. She is ridiculed and seen...
readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...
romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...
the play, and enable him to comment on the actions and feelings of his fellow characters with some distance. He is not fully inte...
if there is no hope at the end. Several other similarities exist between Antony and Cleopatra and other Shakespeare plays. Bits ...
a man who is looking to the future. He looks to the future through his three daughters, imagining that his favorite, the youngest,...
Ill follow thee and make a heaven of hell,/ to die upon the hand I love so well" (Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene 1, lines 241-244). W...
variety of perspectives on Cleopatra, which serve to inform the audiences comprehension of her as a decadent foreign woman. When ...
classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...
the sinners. We must not make a scar-crow of the Law, Setting it vp to feare the Birds of prey,...
the only thing they share: "Othello reveals a more detailed acknowledgment of Desdemonas sexual appeal. As he discusses her death ...
consents not to give sovereignty (Shakespeare, Act 1, Sc. 1). However,...
and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...
offer some different scenes, though ultimately only about one quarter of Shakespeares Richard III is actually presented in the fil...
the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...
appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...
three months after the murder of her husband. In Measure for Measure, its protagonist is not a man of illustrious social status. ...
even if there were a few sinful missteps along the way. However, if they put themselves and their own needs ahead of what God exp...