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her innocence and lack of understanding in her words as she dies, words that do not even point to Othellos guilt as Emilia asks he...
Ophelia: More than Just Friends? A Palace Source Tells All"). Then there is also the almost-incestuous relationship between Haml...
myth. It is a play that demonstrates a profound intelligence on the part of the author, and a play that illustrates how the autho...
is so black that it seems like death itself. The inference we have to make here is that he is dying, or at least is old enough to ...
works called The Mourning Bride which was created in 1697 contains the following well known line: "Heavn has no Rage, like Love to...
It also sets the stage for the viewer/reader to know the foundations of history concerning the families when Romeo and Juliet firs...
that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus unde...
Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...
for the deaths of her husband, Edward V, and her father, Henry VI. Nevertheless, he demonstrates himself as quite capable in prov...
very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...
as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...
staged "fights" in movies and plays, these actions are real and therefore telegraph real emotion to the audience. When Katherina s...
the birth of twins Judith and Hamnet, who died during infancy. Shakespeare enjoyed a very close relationship with Susanna, althou...
Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...
resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...
a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...
an outsider, a theme which is emphasized in most critical analyses of the play, Othellos identity as the Moor in Venice was "not a...
book (Rubinstein 28). He apparently married Anne Hathaway in 1582, and their surviving children, both girls, were illiterate (Rub...
is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...
air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...
confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...
(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...
of as gold, silver and slate. Gold is the level where there is a situation for a man where the girl loves him wholeheartedly. He...
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...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...
But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...
might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...
meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...