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the best Shakespeare company in the world so perhaps the director might want to consider a minimalist production. The focus of th...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

fall upon my life" (Shakespeare I iii). In this he is leaving it all up to his wife and her father, nobly demonstrating that he do...

the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...

finally restored by God to his previous state of good fortune when he realizes that, as a human being, he is insignificant next to...

in bed" (III.ii.206-209), then following-up with the equally matter of fact declaration, "If, once a widow, ever I be wife!" (III....

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...

but she keeps her emotions in check so that she can carry off her masquerade as a man. When Rosalind confronts the Dukes accusat...

verbal appearance and actual reality that Othello addresses throughout the play, wavering back and forth as a means by which to es...

Romeo simply stopped at this infatuation then the tale would not have been so tragic. Romeo gets to know Juliet, and the friar aid...

love for her. It 8s also worth noting, that despite the clear and eloquent words, t no point in the pay do we see Hero and Claudio...

Tale, and The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, As You Like It and Twelfth Night(West 180, see al...

regarded as the "polite" or "formal" form of the second person (Garvey 12). The familiar use of "thou" is best illustrated throu...

thinks she is ignorant because she is unsure and innocent. He feels that she is an idiot to even begin to believe the words or aff...

true circumstances of her first husbands death, and the exact nature of her guilt. There does not appear to be much in the play th...

forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...

as he did during the fateful dinner when the guest at the Brabantio table was the victorious General Othello, his treasure could n...

pining away because of his unrequited love for Olivia, who also has a potential suitor in Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Olivia wants no m...

indicates, Lady Macbeth provides the necessary motivation for the initial murder. She tells Macbeth that if she had sworn an oath ...

say, shows that how each man reacted to this situation was a matter of choice -- not fate. Traditionally, much of the blame for ...

power was not necessarily through the might of his military, but from the popularity of a kings subjects. In Henry V, ther...

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...

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

for the rest of the world, There will never, never be another Laurence Olivier" (69). The article goes on to report that at the "s...

subject which had been taboo in Shakespeares time - with Ophelia), betrayal (Queen Gertrudes incestuous marriage to her brother-in...

who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...

appears to be Lucentio, but should he be unable to produce his father (which would verify his lineage and financial status), then ...

shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...