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the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

the accent will change the meaning of the poem. Instead of stressing the syllables like this: Let me NOT to the MAR-riage of TRUE ...

the intricacies of the situation to take a higher-level view and make higher-level decisions. Relevance of Culture and Diversity i...

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

gone to her and asked for the truth of the matter, trusting that she would tell him. Or he would have laughed at Iago and dismisse...

between Richard and the audience so as to establish an immediate intimacy. He "remains in direct contact with the spectators thro...

to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...

he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...

fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- / No more; and by a sleep to...

"Id plan and work revenge with her" (line 102). With the gods approval, Electra and Orestes set out to avenge their fathers murde...

"teach" him "how to think and speak" (3.2.35) and "create" him new" (3.2.41), which is a reversal of the Elizabethan gender stereo...

her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...

theme of servitude and freedom" (Smith 1608). We learn that Ariel was once the servant of the witch Sycorax, who was banished from...

in front of her. In these two lines she faces defeat as she envisions her power in the image of less than a simple milk maid, a se...

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

preserve her image against the confusion of emotions and her denied lust for Benedick" (BookLore). Beatrice is essentially a res...

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

is served by an earthy, half-demon by the name of Caliban and a sprite named Ariel. In the course of the play, we learn that Prosp...

and blew pink rubber at me" (Williams, 1991; 45). She found herself incredibly outraged and wishing she could make him see...

and was often able to reach accident and crime scenes before the police themselves. By doing so he had managed to capture many of...

has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...

really be proven wrong, and the only thing that Othello has to go on is really the word of his wife who he ultimately disbelieves....

volatile for no apparent reason. The conflict, in other words, has no real foundation but it is tradition. The lovers marr...

denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...

to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

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

even if there were a few sinful missteps along the way. However, if they put themselves and their own needs ahead of what God exp...

of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invi...

without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...