YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Spying and Eavesdropping in the Works of William Shakespeare
Essays 361 - 390
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...
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...
Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...
brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...
soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...
"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...
be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...
being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...
surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...
the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...
a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...
true circumstances of her first husbands death, and the exact nature of her guilt. There does not appear to be much in the play th...
forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...
as he did during the fateful dinner when the guest at the Brabantio table was the victorious General Othello, his treasure could n...
pining away because of his unrequited love for Olivia, who also has a potential suitor in Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Olivia wants no m...
indicates, Lady Macbeth provides the necessary motivation for the initial murder. She tells Macbeth that if she had sworn an oath ...
for the rest of the world, There will never, never be another Laurence Olivier" (69). The article goes on to report that at the "s...
say, shows that how each man reacted to this situation was a matter of choice -- not fate. Traditionally, much of the blame for ...
especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...
life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...
actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...
a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...
Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...
power was not necessarily through the might of his military, but from the popularity of a kings subjects. In Henry V, ther...
In Sonnet 72, it becomes evident that the initial sexual flush is still very much in evidence, but the references to the distant h...
to share Iagos disgust and refers to Desdemonas acceptance of Othello as her "gross revolt" (I.i.134) and Roderigo shows his dista...
the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...
humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pa...