"Titus Andronicus" is a complicated tragedy where all are seeking power and revenge. ... All of these represent evil one way or the other. ... In "The history of King Richard III", Shakespeare also gave it a tragic path, however, not that inhuman like "Titus Andronicus". ... He was able to become king; nevertheless, this play is more human since Shakespeare described King Richard after his deed that he changed and never had quiet in his mind; his consciousness awoke and he suffered for the rest of his life. He lived with a restless heart; all this makes this play more human than the first one....

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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Hamlet is able to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle, King Claudius. ... He believes having all different types of diction in the play will emphasize the variety of characters and their roles in the play. ... The King has definite emotion for fear. ... In reality, Hamlet would not have the same impact if it followed all of Aristotle's guidelines. ...

• Word Count: 888
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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Hamlet is able to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle, King Claudius. ... He believes having all different types of diction in the play will emphasize the variety of characters and their roles in the play. ... The King has definite emotion for fear. ... In reality, Hamlet would not have the same impact if it followed all of Aristotle's guidelines. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Hamlet is able to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle, King Claudius. ... He believes having all different types of diction in the play will emphasize the variety of characters and their roles in the play. ... The King has definite emotion for fear. ... In reality, Hamlet would not have the same impact if it followed all of Aristotle's guidelines. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Hamlet is able to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle, King Claudius. ... He believes having all different types of diction in the play will emphasize the variety of characters and their roles in the play. ... The King has definite emotion for fear. ... In reality, Hamlet would not have the same impact if it followed all of Aristotle's guidelines. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Hamlet is able to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle, King Claudius. ... He believes having all different types of diction in the play will emphasize the variety of characters and their roles in the play. ... The King has definite emotion for fear. ... In reality, Hamlet would not have the same impact if it followed all of Aristotle's guidelines. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Hamlet is able to avenge his father's death by killing his uncle, King Claudius. ... He believes having all different types of diction in the play will emphasize the variety of characters and their roles in the play. ... The King has definite emotion for fear. ... In reality, Hamlet would not have the same impact if it followed all of Aristotle's guidelines. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He murdered all who stood in his way and pursued a vendetta against his sister-in-law Elizabeth Woodville and her ambitious brothers. ... That rise-fall pattern is clearly seen in King Richard III. ... There is no subplot or conventional romantic interest, for all events are part of Richard's rise and fall. ... Those events are dramatised in the plays that precede King Richard III. ... King Richard III is the last of four plays written by a young Shakespeare that dramatise events between 1455 and 1485: the rivalry between the supporters of King Henry VI and the house of Lancaster...

• Word Count: 346
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• Grade Level: High School

Tone is an important aspect of all Shakespeare's works. ... The king also expresses a vengeful tone against his brother in lines 81-84,"If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not..." Clearly the king wishes that Hamlet would expose the crimes of his uncle and avenge his father's death. In contrast to the ghost's opinion of the crime, King Claudius feels mixed remourse and self serving ambition. ... Claudius wants to be forgiven, but he realizes that to be forgiven he must give up all the things he commited the crime for in the first place. ...

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First off, the rebel king Henry IV brings up the introductory discussion of honor. ... Shortly after we hear the king's private praises of Hotspur, we hear Hotspur's fiery stance in reaction to the King's prompt. ... The King uses honor, rather ironically, to defend his crown and kingdom. ... But alas, he surprises us all with a assertive soliloquy in which he sets the stage for his future growth. ... This being said, King Henry finally grants his son his trust. ...

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But he himself wasn't really all that deep or memorable of a character. ... Imagine if you will, the scene with the blind sage telling the King about his past, present and future. ... Again we see our old friend Tiresias, although I feel the role he has in this play isn't quite as influential to the story line as he was in Oedipus King. ... But on a more serious note, they are all classics in their own right. They have all outlasted their peers in the play world, and they have all made an impact on countless millions of people since their first drafts. ...

• Word Count: 766
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• Grade Level: High School

The king being peculiarly the image of God, regicide is a kind of deicide. ... Thus King Hamlet, "by a brother's hand, of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatch'd" (1.5.74-75). ... In this sort of play, Girard notes, "all eloquence must be on the side of revenge" and all criticism of the ethic "remains a half-formed thought, an almost incoherent feeling that must fail in the end to gain full control of the hero's behavior." ... Even the most cursory review of the dramatic movement and literary structure of the play, however, demolishes all such interpretations. First, there...

• Word Count: 1931
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• Grade Level: High School

Macbeth believes the only way to become king is by murdering King Duncan. ... Later on when Macbeth becomes king after killing King Duncan, he still believes that someone is in his way of remaining the king. ... to all the house. ... He hath honored me of late and I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people..."" (Shakespeare 42), this line of Macbeth explains that he is deciding to cancel the plan because the king honored him and also has gotten good opinions from all the people. ...

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In Act 1 Scene I both Bullingbrook and Mowbray start of their appearance in the court of chivalry by being very and perhaps overly respectful to the king. Bullingbrook pays tribute to the king as a feudal monarch, "my gracious sovereign, my most loving liege," (1:i:21) where as Mowbray seems to think of the king as divine saying, "until the heavens, envying earth's good hap, add an immortal title to your crown" (1:i:23). ... This respect to the king continues for the main speeches of the trial with Mowbray saying, "the fair reverence of your highness curbs me" (1:i:54). But whilst this...

• Word Count: 609
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Almost as soon as the play begins the King listens as the captain tells him a story of Macbeth's bravery. ... (I.ii.14-19) Macbeth's loyalty to his king is, also, found in act one. For instance, when the king offers Macbeth payment for his battle triumph, Macbeth assures him "The service and the loyalty I owe,/ In doing it pays itself. ... Finally, Macbeth tries to speak to Lady Macbeth about putting an end to their plan of killing the king altogether. "We will proceed no further in this business:/ He hath honored me of late, and I have bought/ Golden opinions from all sorts of pe...

• Word Count: 407
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• Grade Level: High School

He cleverly uses prefixes to emphasize all what he believes Hamlets lacks during his time of mourning - patience, emotional self-control. ... The assertion that Claudius was a good king is further substantiated when Polonious says: "I hold my duty as I hold my soul, both to my God and to my king" Claudius's character is elevated as Polonious speaks of his king and God in the same breath. ... It appears that Claudius is king by virtue of Gods wishes when in reality he became king irreligiously. ... The theme of public appearance and inner reality casts a doubt over all things. ...

• Word Count: 1997
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• Grade Level: High School

At the beginning of the play, three witches prophesied that Macbeth would become King of Scotland. ... Macbeth and Lady Macbeth guilt is apparent when Macbeth kills the king (Duncan), hallucinates over Banquo's ghost and Lady Macbeth's inability to sleep. ... Macbeth and Duncan are very good friends until Macbeth discovery of the potentials of him becoming king. ... Lady Macbeth concludes "What will this hands never be clean / Here's the smell of blood, Still/ All of the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand " (Shakespeare V. 1. 43-45). ... The blood in Lady Mac...

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As he commits the murder of King Duncan, orders the killing of Banquo and Macduff's family, Macbeth's state of mind gets worse. Before planning King Duncan's murder Macbeth's state of mind was both superior and sane. ... After King Duncan's murder, Macbeth becomes fearful and worried about his evil doing. ... When Macbeth was king he knew that Banquo was a threat to him. ... All he needs now is one more murder to push him into hell. ...

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This furthers the fact that he does not want to die, but rather, he wants to cease to exist all together. ... Hamlet says "conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution; Is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought." ... This unweeded garden has been created by Claudius, the recently crowned king of Denmark, Hamlets uncle, and the murderer of previous king, Hamlet's father. Claudius does nothing except drink all day and night, perpetually at a party, draining "draughts of rhenish." ... Nymph, in thy orisons; be all my sins remembered." ...

• Word Count: 490
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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare also uses the supernatural – a sign of ill-fate during the time of Elizabethan era - in the King's ghost to accentuate the disastrous circumstance of Denmark and the "strange eruption to our state" highlighting a break in the chain of being within the court of Denmark in which Claudius himself recognizes and describes Denmark as "the corrupted current of this world.... In Act I, the immoral nature of King Claudius' marriage is shown Hamlets reaction of repulsion "a most wicked speed! ... " Over time Hamlet becomes increasingly mad as he goes...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With just a story, the ghost manages to bring Hamlet to his full command, as Hamlet claims, I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past And thy commandment alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain. (1,4 98-104) Although it appears that Hamlet will follow through with the ghost's requests, and proceed to kill Claudius, he seems to procrastinate with the murder. ... Another example of Shakespeare's view on reason can be drawn from King Claudius' speech to Hamlet about the nature of his grief. ... What Shak...

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• Grade Level: High School

The first recorded production of Othello was in 1604, at the Banquetting House in Whitehall before King James I (Barnet, 217). ... Pepys saw the play again nine years later, this time with a different opinion: "1669, February 6. - To the King's playhouse, and there in an upper box did see "The Moore of Venice": but ill-acted in most parts; Moghun, which did a little surprise me, not acting Iago's part by much so well as Clun used to do: nor another, Hart's which was Cassio's; nor indeed, Burt doing the Moor's so well as I once thought he did." ... During the 1700s Oth...

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Hamlet's lamenting language, while reflecting upon the corrupt Denmark, "so excellent a king" uses mythological allusions as a comparative reference for corruption, "hyperion to a satyr." ... Hamlet's relationship with his mother deals with intense resentment of unknown parameters, supported by fractured perceptions of all individuals to ultimately reveal that a state of corruption is entirely dependent on a frame of reference. ... All mortal existence, no matter how prestigious the individual, is subject to utter decay, a rebuking of religious sanctity to promote a se...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

The play Macbeth is a very dark and mysterious play throughout most of it with all the murders and deceit that go on in the play. ... I would show my vision of the play by using very dark lighting on the stage at certain parts of the play, such as the murder of King Duncan. ... In this quote you can see how blood is one of the main images scene throughout this entire play, and by creating a very dark and red environment by using lighting, the audience could actually "see" how the blood is all around them and how it is affecting the play. ... I would help the audience interpret asides by usin...

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Time is seen as a destructive force which we all will succumb to in the end. ... "When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white-. ... The narrator is saying that his love is beautiful, but like all beautiful things, with time, will die. ... Who rules over the earth and is the divine power; just as a king would see himself. ... These are all harsh words which also slow the pace of the sonnet, highlighting the effect on the narrator. ...

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• Grade Level: High School