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In five pages this paper discusses the way in which each generation's audiences has responded to King Lear, relating it to their o...

In six pages this paper discusses how Caesar's own ego and refusal to listen to cautionary voices that resulted in his murder. Th...

in, on the basis of her gender. Coriolanus was an extremely dutiful son, and his single-minded focus was in becoming the courageo...

assessments are largely accepted as valid (Smith Julius Caesar: An Abbreviated Textual History). Shakespeare, on the other hand, ...

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...

in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...

or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...

that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...

speaks so eloquently that the Duke comments that Othellos tale would "win my daughter too" (Act I, Scene 3, line 171). Furthermore...

daughter, Miranda; his faithful fairy, Ariel; and his loyal Councilor (advisor), Gonzalo. But also living there is a lifelong nat...

inasmuch as social interaction implies interacting with other persons; thus, the meaning of that interaction is always to be a joi...

the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...

to a degree, is honorable and chivalrous in his understanding of the couples love. All the while that the two are falling in lov...

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...

they marry or not, for there have been no grandiose expectations placed upon them to act a certain way. Benedick remarks, "That a...

receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...

of Lady Macbeth. Some have termed her cold and calculating, others have said that she was mad, and terribly ambitious. It would ap...

the throne of Denmark. This is why Hamlet frequently verbally attacks his mother. Gertrudes role was expected to be that of wife...

again. This time, however, Bassanio urges Antonio to loan it one more time while Bassanio will bring the latter hazard back again...

to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...

really be proven wrong, and the only thing that Othello has to go on is really the word of his wife who he ultimately disbelieves....

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...

he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...

the church, so most scholars put his birthday as the 23rd of April, 1564 (Hanna - Life). John Shakespeare was a "prominent and pro...

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...

tragic deaths of Lear and Cordelia. Therefore, many modern readers and critics regard the plays conclusion as being devoid of red...