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we look at the content of the play and how it may be staged we have a better idea of how to interpret the work. It is after lookin...

"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...

the one who is primarily the main focus of the play and it is her collection that bears the title of the story, as she collects gl...

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

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

for she "She breathes with motherly tenderness and love for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretche...

Mississippi and later St. Louis Williams was teased about his deep southern accent and changed his name to Tennessee. Because of f...

and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

decides rather early on that each of them would be better off without the other to feed, fuel and nurture the dysfunction of their...

the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

wall, "deserted his wife and children sixteen years earlier" (Koprince and Bloom). Tom describes him as a "a telephone man who fel...

to by Jim in very earthy, concrete terms that nonetheless indicate that she is pretty. When she says that blue "is wrong for-roses...

Within these tragedies, the unfortunate fate of the hero or heroine is usually determined by some type of sexual desire. The them...

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

model to his boys of what a successful and well-respected man should be; however, the legacy he left as a father was a model of ho...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

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

rarely the one(s) to actually suffer the injurious act; rather, terrorists have learned it is much more effective to their cause t...

Achilles is well aware that he is mortal and that his life will be brief, and Thetis recognition of his mortality "contrasts sharp...

as audience members question the correctness of snickering at something so obviously bleak. Still, they are hard pressed to avoid...

she and her brothers Oscar, Lou and Emil all have to work extremely hard, and Oscar and Lou resent her, though this isnt revealed ...

peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

Luke 2.1 there is also the reference to the birth taking place in the time of the census of Quirinius, this was in 6 CE2, however ...

marriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet remarks that she overcome her grief and remarried within a month of his fathers death-...

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...