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daughter, Miranda; his faithful fairy, Ariel; and his loyal Councilor (advisor), Gonzalo. But also living there is a lifelong nat...

inasmuch as social interaction implies interacting with other persons; thus, the meaning of that interaction is always to be a joi...

at Shakespeare in a vacuum. That is, Kastan looks at Shakespeare in its own right but negates the political and social influences ...

speaks so eloquently that the Duke comments that Othellos tale would "win my daughter too" (Act I, Scene 3, line 171). Furthermore...

who informs him that he was murdered, that we note a change in Hamlet that begins to involve serious acting. In this simple exa...

secondary characters and subthemes actually deliver Shakespeares real message. The fairies in the play are of particular interest...

to a degree, is honorable and chivalrous in his understanding of the couples love. All the while that the two are falling in lov...

must reach unto" (Shakespeare I, i). When the two meet in the next scene we note that Lady Anne has absolutely no feelings for ...

/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...

observer, the forest is depicted as a pastoral or golden world not unlike the biblical garden of Eden in two particular scenes, in...

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...

receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...

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...

plot progresses, Richard allows things to develop till there is virtual defiance of his royal will. This intolerable situation o...

no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...

differently in different periods of time, but the man as a writer stays very much the same. The homogeneity of his works is remark...

my cold blood, I am of your humour for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me" (Much Ado About...

alienate himself from his mother, uncle, fianc?e Ophelia and his old school chums, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. The lone confide...

the borders on the grotesque, emphasizing the ugliness of oppression and graphically depicts the "natural" struggle between predat...

The steward is immediately threatened by anyone who is perceived as funnier or more intelligent than he. Olivia is the only perso...

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...

of Lady Macbeth. Some have termed her cold and calculating, others have said that she was mad, and terribly ambitious. It would ap...

the throne of Denmark. This is why Hamlet frequently verbally attacks his mother. Gertrudes role was expected to be that of wife...

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...

again. This time, however, Bassanio urges Antonio to loan it one more time while Bassanio will bring the latter hazard back again...

they marry or not, for there have been no grandiose expectations placed upon them to act a certain way. Benedick remarks, "That a...

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...

and suggests that he does not deserve his place in English letters. He quotes a number of other critics to support his view. This ...