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speech which reflects his nature as a cunning, ambitious and intelligent character in the play. Brutus is who is considered...
banished to the forests outside of Mantua. In the meantime, Julia decides she cannot be apart from Proteus and disguises herself a...
not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...
lovers and Shakespeare is more sympathetic to their plight, considering the rebelliousness to being relevant to the lovers need to...
he was also a man who was corrupt from the beginning due to weaknesses. In essence, he was a brave and honorable man when he was n...
will be more familiar with the work than audiences of today. It is said by most critics that Cymbeline is one of William...
have been called to his ship. Happily reunited with his daughter, Pericles is exhausted and sleeps. In his sleep Diana instructs ...
the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...
or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...
in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...
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...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
to a degree, is honorable and chivalrous in his understanding of the couples love. All the while that the two are falling in lov...
observer, the forest is depicted as a pastoral or golden world not unlike the biblical garden of Eden in two particular scenes, in...
must reach unto" (Shakespeare I, i). When the two meet in the next scene we note that Lady Anne has absolutely no feelings for ...
of Lady Macbeth. Some have termed her cold and calculating, others have said that she was mad, and terribly ambitious. It would ap...
the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...
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...
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...
In five pages this paper examines the dramatic liberties Shakespeare took in his portrayal of King Macbeth in this consideration o...
line indicates how Iago begins to chip away Othellos confidence in his lieutenant and his wife, as Iago insinuates there is someth...
that sounds like ritualistic chanting: FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? / In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND ...
a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...
leave his new bride to wage war in Cyprus. The departure, though bittersweet, returns Othello to familiar territory that renews h...