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Caesar with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who was at that time entering the twilight of her life.6 At the time it was initially...

again it was a matter of holding the government responsible for the continued injustice and oppression of not only women but ethni...

in terms of the authors or historians he used, they also generally utilized others. For example, "Holinsheds Chronicles of England...

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

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax. Miranda retains a childlike innocence as a result of her idyllic existence, but at the same ti...

director, "having created us alive, then no longer wished, or was he able, to put us materially into a work of art. And this, sir,...

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...

poems "by several well-known theatrical poets. One of these poems (untitled in the volume, but now known as "The Phoenix and the T...

sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...

term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...

- a group ironically consisting of the very men who had conspired against Prospero - Antonio, the King, the Kings brother Sebastia...

all thoughts of Rosaline in favor of his new love, Juliet. This rashness is further exemplified in the famous balcony scene, which...

European descent of Prospero and his belief that by taking over the rule of Caliban, he can "help" the people and bring "civilizat...

her brothers wrongful imprisonment she requests an audience with Angelo. When she asks for her brothers release Angelo is so taken...

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

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

deal of support for the fact that Machiavelli always had the interests of the people at heart. Much of The Prince revolves around ...

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...

both politically as well as personally. For Brutus, virtue was a trait that could never be compromised for it was synonymous with...

example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...

very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...

(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

book itself is symbolic, it has to be thought, of Prosperos secret desire to remove himself from reality and the world all togethe...

coming to the island, as well as the history of the island prior to European intrusion. Before Prospero came, the island was ruled...