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homoerotic desire" (114). Olivia and Maria embody this type of alliance. Maria is serving Olivia, literally and figuratively spe...

brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...

lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...

supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...

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

a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...

equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...

"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...

In short, then, Othello has it all, and in Iagos eyes, he has nothing. It is apparent that Iago has worked for many years in the s...

world that she is a success. This character then stands as a powerful example of women from that era who were given few choices b...

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...

good enough for her. Another issue that Bianicas situation brings up is the sign of the times. These days, wed scratch our...

sent from God, and in return, the monarch was expected to keep their best interests at heart and to protect them. Not only h...

involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...

fall upon my life" (Shakespeare I iii). In this he is leaving it all up to his wife and her father, nobly demonstrating that he do...

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

the best Shakespeare company in the world so perhaps the director might want to consider a minimalist production. The focus of th...

finally restored by God to his previous state of good fortune when he realizes that, as a human being, he is insignificant next to...

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...

seriously ill and needs a change in climate to regain his health, Nora is forced to take drastic measures in order to finance such...