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The steward is immediately threatened by anyone who is perceived as funnier or more intelligent than he. Olivia is the only perso...

provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...

plot progresses, Richard allows things to develop till there is virtual defiance of his royal will. This intolerable situation o...

the still city, which is bathed in ethereal morning light, the city is shrouded in fog. This is also symbolic, in that its white s...

differently in different periods of time, but the man as a writer stays very much the same. The homogeneity of his works is remark...

the Russia expansion in the Caucasus (and other parts of Europe) throughout the period was motivated primarily by the governments ...

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

pairing of Burton and Taylor in the lead roles was certain to result in a box office success for virtually any movie. Add Shakespe...

is no reason to doubt his sincerity of emotion. He is willing to go to any lengths to convince the fair lady to accept his propos...

consents not to give sovereignty (Shakespeare, Act 1, Sc. 1). However,...

and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...

offer some different scenes, though ultimately only about one quarter of Shakespeares Richard III is actually presented in the fil...

essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...

me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me saying to me Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot, o...

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...

members of particular racial and ethnic groups which are often compared in relation to the majority or dominant group within the p...

and Achiles reenact the way in which Hamlet believes his father was killed by Claudius and how revenge will be exacted on the guil...

all but wiped out, the same mentality still exists today that serves to perpetuate feelings of inadequacy and displacement from a ...

the play, and enable him to comment on the actions and feelings of his fellow characters with some distance. He is not fully inte...

colonization, England was in a state of religious unrest. There was considerable friction between Protestants and Roman Catholics...

to not only stay afloat but to allocate sufficient funding for the identification and colonization of various new lands which were...

if there is no hope at the end. Several other similarities exist between Antony and Cleopatra and other Shakespeare plays. Bits ...

in the early 18th century that the Fulani people east of present-day Sierra Leone invaded to convert the people of present-day Sie...

Ill follow thee and make a heaven of hell,/ to die upon the hand I love so well" (Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene 1, lines 241-244). W...

not known, although the effects still influence the way we use language nowadays. It was a huge change in the way that English vow...

this characteristic, which is indicative of the Igbo culture in general, that leads to his downfall. For example, when the tribal...

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

the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...

classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...