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Othello's Iago and The Merchant of Venice's Shylock are villains who drive much of the action in the plays. This paper examines Sh...
quite obvious, if one probes them more deeply, these characters reveal striking similarities worthy of analysis. Charlie Marlow i...
This essay pertains to Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno and the impact of exile on the protagonists. Four pages in leng...
In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's tragic protagonist in terms of the resentment he felt towards his father and how t...
her. She vows, "The devil a Puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a / time-pleaser; an affectiond ass that cons state wi...
This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...
the borders on the grotesque, emphasizing the ugliness of oppression and graphically depicts the "natural" struggle between predat...
tells Hamlet that "So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear" (I, v). Hamlet is confused and surprised, and he then learns that...
one author, his "role in this Illyrian comedy is significant because Illyria is a country permeated with the spirit of the Feast o...
of the common viewpoints regarding interpersonal interactions inherent in Elizabethan literature. The relationship between Hermia...
Bards most impressive works, and for many, the archetypal ideal of a narrative "tragedy". The reason behind Othellos reputation is...
grows older, his hatred will also continue to grow until he hates all mankind, not just the Athenians. The fact that Timon seems...
(Foakes 23). Until this time, many directors seem to see the play as a literal fairy tale for children and staged it as such; Broo...
lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...
and suggests that he does not deserve his place in English letters. He quotes a number of other critics to support his view. This ...
Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...
one of his most vexing. This paper discusses him in detail. Discussion Iago is a fascinating study in evil; he sets out to destro...
him, he will show "great mercy" (II.ii.50). Henry then turns the discussion around to the real point of the scene. He asks the me...
without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...
of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invi...
who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...
by King Claudius reveal him to be conniving, shrewd and lustful. Unlike Hamlet, who is preoccupied with questions concerning ethic...
at war with the Turks, that not all of Othellos men are loyal to him, and that there remains a great deal of cultural suspicion ab...
decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...
well as a "Barbary horse" (I.i.111). As this indicates, the two men are particularly repulsed at the thought of Othello and Desd...
in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...
his darkest. It is concerned with power, ambition, and the exercise of pure evil. This paper examines the characters, setting, plo...
opens by referred to her distant husband not by his titular name, but by his holdings and titles of lordship: "Glamis thou art", s...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the cost of power in Shakespeare's tragedies. Richard III, As You Like It, and the ...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Puritan Revolution and its impact on literature. Shakespeare's Prospero and Milt...