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acts cowardly. Much of this comes from predictions of three witches, and after the deaths begin, the witches make further predicti...

In five pages this play is evaluated in terms of whether or not Elizabethan audiences would regard it as a personal tragedy or a p...

receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...

assessments are largely accepted as valid (Smith Julius Caesar: An Abbreviated Textual History). Shakespeare, on the other hand, ...

in, on the basis of her gender. Coriolanus was an extremely dutiful son, and his single-minded focus was in becoming the courageo...

over his military service. Shortly after the wedding, he was dispatched to Famagosta, the capital of Cyprus, to battle Turkish fo...

In six pages this paper examines the plot function served by the witches in this analysis of William Shakespeare's dark play. Thr...

The caricature representation of Richard in both film and play is discussed in ten pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliograp...

the King. Macbeth, while in a different conflict, is a man who, for the simple sake of his ambition, is willing to murder his k...

This paper examines the treatment of gender disruption in these plays by William Shakespeare in 8 pages. Nine sources are cited i...

In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...

In seven pages this paper considers Queen Elizabeth, Queen Margaret, and Lady Anne in terms of how they are treated by Richard III...

In five pages the portrayal of moral issues in these three plays is analyzed. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

In five pages the shared themes and death emphasis of these two notorious literary classics are contrasted and compared. Three so...

appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...

her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...

harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

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

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...

say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...

the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...

with Macbeth as Malcolm states, "Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;/ Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth/ Is ripe...

that sounds like ritualistic chanting: FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? / In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND ...

a man who is perhaps willing to sit back and let prophecy go its own course, without intervention from him. This is evidenced when...

be able to control the otherwise innocent Macbeths actions, or if he is entirely responsible for his own demise" (Riedel Witches.h...

battle, but this passive character allows others to control his fate. One cannot deny that Macbeth expresses a unique fascinatio...