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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...
Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...
for himself - with a kiss. Her husband retorts, "Sir, would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she oft bestows o...
leave his new bride to wage war in Cyprus. The departure, though bittersweet, returns Othello to familiar territory that renews h...
a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...
he would have to address. This information provides him with a foundational understanding of the various kingdoms and allows him t...
do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...
idle pleasures of these days. / Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous" (Shakespeare I i). In Othello Iago tells us, "And whats h...
a time and oft / In the Rialto you have rated me / About my moneys and my usances; / Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, /...
he is out of the country when Bolingbroke returns with an invading army. In Act II, scene 3, Bolingbroke and York, his uncle, di...
a purpose that is perhaps very subtle. In the beginning of this play we know that there is great tension between England and Fr...
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...
the play, and enable him to comment on the actions and feelings of his fellow characters with some distance. He is not fully inte...
romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...
if there is no hope at the end. Several other similarities exist between Antony and Cleopatra and other Shakespeare plays. Bits ...
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 ...
the only thing they share: "Othello reveals a more detailed acknowledgment of Desdemonas sexual appeal. As he discusses her death ...
a man who is looking to the future. He looks to the future through his three daughters, imagining that his favorite, the youngest,...
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,...
Claudio has officially erred, he truly loves Juliet and fully intends to marry her. His sin of fornication clearly does not warran...
Hal will give his full allegiance (Grossman 170). While the audience undoubtedly realizes, since the plot is drawn from English h...
(Aristotle). According to Aristotle, comedy involves the imitation of men who are less than average. Furthermore, Aristotle indica...
of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...
trained to the arts of war and government, and not toward the finer sensibilities . Therefore, Theseus supports Egeus in forcing h...
the titled gentleman who had lots of time on his hands, dueling for the sake of principle was a favorite pastime. According to Vi...
condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...
directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...