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things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...

my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...

myth. It is a play that demonstrates a profound intelligence on the part of the author, and a play that illustrates how the autho...

a character claiming he is "sick at heart," sets the stage for all the struggles that will take place (Shakespeare I i). It is the...

move from one emotion to another. There is depression, sorrow, despair, anger, frustration, and perhaps a bit of madness mixed in ...

that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus unde...

blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...

But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

immediately to fetch the handkerchief. Emilia, Desdemonas maid and Iagos wife, comments: 4. "Is not this man jealous?" (III.4.99)....

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

It also sets the stage for the viewer/reader to know the foundations of history concerning the families when Romeo and Juliet firs...

Ophelia: More than Just Friends? A Palace Source Tells All"). Then there is also the almost-incestuous relationship between Haml...

his lovers eyes he is saying, "When I look in your eyes/ There I see/ What all that a love should really be" (Vandross 24-26). He ...

is so black that it seems like death itself. The inference we have to make here is that he is dying, or at least is old enough to ...

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...

Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...

him completely off-guard, Othello is completely unprepared for the "depth and intensity" (Vanita 341) of his love. Just as his pu...

so heavily reliant on the patriarchal system. She is passive and obedient, indicating that she easily goes along with the society,...

Through his insightful approach, Shakespeare attempts to push forward the strength and spirituality of women. Indeed, he recogniz...

we see the same, though we know differently. Lady Macbeth, Lennox, Ross, the ladies and lords, and the attendants are not really i...