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"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

in one another that is very attractive. So Romeo makes his way to her window in the night and we have the infamous balcony scene w...

King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

works called The Mourning Bride which was created in 1697 contains the following well known line: "Heavn has no Rage, like Love to...

his lovers eyes he is saying, "When I look in your eyes/ There I see/ What all that a love should really be" (Vandross 24-26). He ...

the most inept such plots in theater-but we can see it as his attempt to revenge himself upon the man who stole his island from hi...

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...

before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to th...

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...

begins to see things. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger floating before him. This serves to show the state of mi...

with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

a character claiming he is "sick at heart," sets the stage for all the struggles that will take place (Shakespeare I i). It is the...

move from one emotion to another. There is depression, sorrow, despair, anger, frustration, and perhaps a bit of madness mixed in ...

that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus unde...

It also sets the stage for the viewer/reader to know the foundations of history concerning the families when Romeo and Juliet firs...

Ophelia: More than Just Friends? A Palace Source Tells All"). Then there is also the almost-incestuous relationship between Haml...

is so black that it seems like death itself. The inference we have to make here is that he is dying, or at least is old enough to ...

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

her innocence and lack of understanding in her words as she dies, words that do not even point to Othellos guilt as Emilia asks he...

But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...

rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...