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for supper. Meanwhile her REAL husband returns home, but is denied entry by Antipholus slave. During the course of the meal, Antip...

thoughts terrify him. The fact that Macbeth is thought of as a loyal and noble person at the beginning of the play is made eviden...

are sending her and because she has led a sequestered life, Ophelia lacks sophistication when it comes to dealing with matters of ...

interacting systems, the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is, according to Freud, the original system of the personality up...

to share Iagos disgust and refers to Desdemonas acceptance of Othello as her "gross revolt" (I.i.134) and Roderigo shows his dista...

city, broadening his knowledge, which, in turn, improves his skill as a ruler. While there is a logical explanation for his knowle...

also clear that Shakespeare is not writing the play from the perspective that it is about the problems of interracial marriage. I...

it is this source on which he draws for determining right and wrong (Peters). According to Peters, Shakespeare defines the abilit...

the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

in enforcement of these laws. The laws in question are those which relate to a man being punished to death if he should lay with a...

persecuted and killed for their faith. We also note that throughout the play Lear slowly develops into a man who understands hi...

speech associates her with a shrine, a religious object, and then offers up his lips as pilgrims. Pilgrims often made journeys to ...

accompanied by his son, Ferdinand, the heir to his throne; Antonio, the Duke of Milan; Sebastian, the brother of Alonzo; and Gonza...

In fact, Lewis Wagers 1567 morality play based on biblical teachings, The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, presented a chara...

he should rank higher than he does and he also feels that he should have Desdemona. In these regards we see a man who is clearly f...

on the story that offers comedy and fantasy. Through this access to the magical illusions we are offered the safety of the men who...

Sir Toby Belch is Olivias kinsman and the primary comic conspirator in the play. Sir Toby treats Malvolio and Sir Andrew as fools ...

to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...

Verona, Italy, where a feud has broken out between the families of the Montegues and the Capulets. The servants of both houses ope...

Had they employed reason by waiting for the light of day, perhaps they would not have rushed into love, marriage, and ultimately, ...

makes men the center of her life. In fact, Beatrice makes it clear that she has no wish to marry, and thinks very little of most ...

preferred method of service is that he cannot be trusted. He admits to being deceitful, purely for his own purposes," and we know...

see that vengeance is in order. That is another classic theme in humanity. If someone were to have killed one of our parents we wo...

Athens and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Although the setting is Athens, Shakespeare originally staged the production at the Globe ...

factor into the equation, though it would seem that love was possible eventually. Given that Petruchio considers Katherine his p...

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

most notably, but not really missed, were Queen Margaret, and Edward IV. Some of the lengthy dialogue was taken out without detrac...

never formally addressing any attacks on his work, commenting on his popularity or penning any eulogy to any of the members of the...

an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...