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

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

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...

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

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

1949. The first soliloquy provides ample opportunity to witness the impact this has upon Hamlet, inasmuch as he simply cannot com...

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

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

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

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

things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

strong man to dominate his wife. There were few constraints placed upon male behavior whereas for women it was quite the opposite...

might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...

Prince. Despite his antic disposition or pretending to be mad as another ploy to ensnare Claudius in his revenge trap, maybe Haml...

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...

claiming that not only is Othello an outsider but akin to the devil, or an animal. It is not that he is just from a different coun...

is in seeing pompous buffoons made fools of, and lovers brought together. However, Aphra Behns play, though a comedy, also deals...

really betrayed Othello. Iago is determined to manipulate Othello to his own desires, which are many. Throughout the play the re...

to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...