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lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...

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

Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...

one of his most vexing. This paper discusses him in detail. Discussion Iago is a fascinating study in evil; he sets out to destro...

grows older, his hatred will also continue to grow until he hates all mankind, not just the Athenians. The fact that Timon seems...

(Foakes 23). Until this time, many directors seem to see the play as a literal fairy tale for children and staged it as such; Broo...

of love that can so easily change course; it seems frivolous and rather shabby, after all Orsinos protestations of love to Olivia,...

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

for the Jews at that time. Lastly, William Golding in his novel "The Lord of the Flies" (1954) reveals the theme of the horrors of...

sexual liberties but always remains faithful to the spirit of the original play" (Balingit PG). The setting is quickly establishe...

that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was gouernor of Syria) And all went to bee taxed...

the effect which guilt has on the human individual is seen in Shakespeares Macbeth. Macbeth and his wife showed all the symptoms o...

and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, are introduced as well as members of an amateur acting troupe who are rehearsing the p...

for fear Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there" (Shakespeare II i). This is a very magical surreal image, but also a very fun ...

an end to Tobys activities. Even Maria has warned Toby that the Lady Olivia is growing impatient with him: "Your cousin, my lady, ...

without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...

of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invi...

him, he will show "great mercy" (II.ii.50). Henry then turns the discussion around to the real point of the scene. He asks the me...

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...

impose magic and enchantment to seek his revenge. But, in the end he forgives those who put him on the island and he suffers a sea...

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

relates to issues of magic and creation, and the identity of Prospero/Shakespeare. In examining this perspective the opinions and...

he doubts her, believing the words of others, one can see that he is a very insecure man where his love is concerned. In the cas...

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

slightly surreal way, youthful innocence. Juliets bedroom, for instance, is full of images of the Virgin Mary: an interesting vari...

mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore, he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with ...

as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

volatile for no apparent reason. The conflict, in other words, has no real foundation but it is tradition. The lovers marr...