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identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...

directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...

assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...

the titled gentleman who had lots of time on his hands, dueling for the sake of principle was a favorite pastime. According to Vi...

the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...

was, most likely, rejected for being "too young and untried" (92). When he is first introduced to the plays action, in Act I, Sce...

trained to the arts of war and government, and not toward the finer sensibilities . Therefore, Theseus supports Egeus in forcing h...

tragedy; there may be without character" (Aristotle Poetics Part VI). At this point Aristotle indicates that more often than not p...

faced the slave, / Which neer shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseamd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fixd ...

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

from a popular Icelandic tale in which the lead character by the name of "Amleth" experienced similar events throughout his lifeti...

Hal will give his full allegiance (Grossman 170). While the audience undoubtedly realizes, since the plot is drawn from English h...

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

(Aristotle). According to Aristotle, comedy involves the imitation of men who are less than average. Furthermore, Aristotle indica...

Claudio has officially erred, he truly loves Juliet and fully intends to marry her. His sin of fornication clearly does not warran...

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...

banished to the forests outside of Mantua. In the meantime, Julia decides she cannot be apart from Proteus and disguises herself a...

et al, 1996, p. 1251). Robert Burns Robert Burns was the eldest of seven children, the son of a hard-working farmer (Anonymous, ...

have been called to his ship. Happily reunited with his daughter, Pericles is exhausted and sleeps. In his sleep Diana instructs ...

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

he was also a man who was corrupt from the beginning due to weaknesses. In essence, he was a brave and honorable man when he was n...

lovers and Shakespeare is more sympathetic to their plight, considering the rebelliousness to being relevant to the lovers need to...

will be more familiar with the work than audiences of today. It is said by most critics that Cymbeline is one of William...

express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...

speech which reflects his nature as a cunning, ambitious and intelligent character in the play. Brutus is who is considered...