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with Henry V losing only a small amount of men while the French lost many. Finally Henry V and King Charles meet and discuss the l...

will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

her standards and lie to her father. She is seen, therefor, as the evil daughter, not the righteous daughter she truly is: "Lears ...

titled William Shakespeares Romeo + Juliet (as if there were another author?) that starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Clair Daines in t...

his fathers murder was Claudius elaborate conspiracy to become King, but he lacked sufficient proof to support his theory. When t...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

an unexpected remark, as if to himself and not meant to be overheard, leaving you, Othello, intrigued and mentally disorganized (O...

in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

ever see a production of the original play. In light of such information we can assume that, in their original context, both stori...

truly untested man. He has recently been incredibly successful in a battle and is, to some degree, full of himself. We can envisio...

whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...

of perspective came about. Though various ploys were attempted to regain old sorts of power, in the end, there was a rise in the m...

Bards most impressive works, and for many, the archetypal ideal of a narrative "tragedy". The reason behind Othellos reputation is...

his darkest. It is concerned with power, ambition, and the exercise of pure evil. This paper examines the characters, setting, plo...

opens by referred to her distant husband not by his titular name, but by his holdings and titles of lordship: "Glamis thou art", s...

well as a "Barbary horse" (I.i.111). As this indicates, the two men are particularly repulsed at the thought of Othello and Desd...

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

at war with the Turks, that not all of Othellos men are loyal to him, and that there remains a great deal of cultural suspicion ab...

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

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,...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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