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supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

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...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...

good enough for her. Another issue that Bianicas situation brings up is the sign of the times. These days, wed scratch our...

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

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...

with Macbeth as Malcolm states, "Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;/ Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth/ Is ripe...

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

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

husbands duty to lead his wife toward proper behavior. Inherent in the relationship between God and humanity, which the marriage ...

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

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...

connection between Iagos perception of race and the cultural perception that "black" equates with "evil." This perception of race ...