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non-existent, which meant that the dams these industrious animals built were also. Without dams, several low-lying regions became...

to maintain Great Britain as a military power on an equal footing with the powers of the European mainland?the great continental p...

the open air seems odd. And yet, the opera version gave Falstaff a swagger and an attitude that one suspects was close to the t...

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

In six pages this paper examines how literature depicts human nature in a comparative consideration of Hamlet by William Shakespea...

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

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

man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...

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 ...

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...

Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...

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...

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...

blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...

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

myth. It is a play that demonstrates a profound intelligence on the part of the author, and a play that illustrates how the autho...

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

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

as it seems. Is Hamlets revenge motivated by a desire to avenge his fathers murder or is it sparked by the betrayal he feels over...