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

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

town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...

(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

book itself is symbolic, it has to be thought, of Prosperos secret desire to remove himself from reality and the world all togethe...

coming to the island, as well as the history of the island prior to European intrusion. Before Prospero came, the island was ruled...

we see Roderigo and Iago discussing the fact that this Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters ...

of as gold, silver and slate. Gold is the level where there is a situation for a man where the girl loves him wholeheartedly. He...

and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

tale that he is a eunuch, otherwise impotent. With the aid of his friend, Doctor Quack, he manages to land himself in the lap and ...

example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...

very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...

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...

rescue her from her loneliness. With Jessica the first hint of desire or romance comes when she asks Launcelot to give Lorenzo a n...

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

the birth of twins Judith and Hamnet, who died during infancy. Shakespeare enjoyed a very close relationship with Susanna, althou...

Levy believes that Laura is solely focused on her vulnerability, which is symbolized by the fragility of the glass (Levy). He writ...

poems "by several well-known theatrical poets. One of these poems (untitled in the volume, but now known as "The Phoenix and the T...

sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

Lye, Derrida and others, then The Glass Menagerie is a perfect play to apply this technique to, because it is full of silences, me...

does in the story. She arrives in the place filled with life and energy in relationship to her outward personality, yet she is als...

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax. Miranda retains a childlike innocence as a result of her idyllic existence, but at the same ti...

director, "having created us alive, then no longer wished, or was he able, to put us materially into a work of art. And this, sir,...

the most inept such plots in theater-but we can see it as his attempt to revenge himself upon the man who stole his island from hi...

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...