YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :William Shakespeare and the Authors Who Influenced Him
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anti-semitism. Religious: The Christian church of the period inherited all the accumulated "demonization", which had occurred ar...
wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...
not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...
flies. Though that his joy be joy, / Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senato...
true circumstances of her first husbands death, and the exact nature of her guilt. There does not appear to be much in the play th...
since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...
will be. And, as a ruler he has obligations. Ophelia is likely not ignorant of such conditions considering she has grown up in a h...
for the rest of the world, There will never, never be another Laurence Olivier" (69). The article goes on to report that at the "s...
say, shows that how each man reacted to this situation was a matter of choice -- not fate. Traditionally, much of the blame for ...
indicates, Lady Macbeth provides the necessary motivation for the initial murder. She tells Macbeth that if she had sworn an oath ...
as he did during the fateful dinner when the guest at the Brabantio table was the victorious General Othello, his treasure could n...
pining away because of his unrequited love for Olivia, who also has a potential suitor in Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Olivia wants no m...
particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...
humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pa...
out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...
the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...
forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...
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...
possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...
In Sonnet 72, it becomes evident that the initial sexual flush is still very much in evidence, but the references to the distant h...
He plots to have the Bohemian king poisoned, but Polixenes manages to flee Sicilia unharmed and return to the safety of his homela...
in bed" (III.ii.206-209), then following-up with the equally matter of fact declaration, "If, once a widow, ever I be wife!" (III....
the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...
subject which had been taboo in Shakespeares time - with Ophelia), betrayal (Queen Gertrudes incestuous marriage to her brother-in...
who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...
5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 6 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes...
and one in blood establishd; One that made means to come by what he hath, And slaughterd those that were the means to help him; Ab...
agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...
but she keeps her emotions in check so that she can carry off her masquerade as a man. When Rosalind confronts the Dukes accusat...
especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...