YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Touchstone in As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Essays 331 - 360
travelling with Banquo, a general in the army, meets three witches. MACBETH Speak, if you can: what are you? First Witch All...
conscience. Said Macbeth: "One cried "God Bless us! And "Amen!" the other, as they had seen me with these hangmans hands. Listning...
Information). Shakespeare certainly changed the characters names - but made few more changes. Greenes Pandosto, King of Bohemia be...
While she has gone to do this, Macbeth, again imagines that he hears knocking and sees an image of a hand plucking out his eyes. ...
an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...
(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...
have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...
involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...
this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...
father speaking to him, or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, th...
Taking the skull, for example: it is obvious that the term skull refers to a particular object, or a group of objects, which have ...
a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...
soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...
"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...
surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...
the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...
equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...
Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...
story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...
While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...
be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...
brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...
Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...
lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...
where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...
supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...
good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...
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...
When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...