... elaborately decorated back wall. Large oak pillars, painted to look like marble, support a canopy, which has been painted to represent the heavens.Andrea Pistolesi/The Image Bank Expand William Shakespeare Quick Facts © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Expand There is no simple explanation for Shakespeare's unrivaled popularity, but he remains our greatest entertainer and perhaps our most profound thinker. He had ... . Written around 1599 and 1600, they represent Shakespeare's triumph in the field of high comedy. These mature comedies revolve around beautiful, intelligent, an...

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... to be satisfied. Although it is clear from the beginning that she has feelings for Benedick, Beatrice is successful in showing him otherwise. Beatrice is much like Kate in her quick wit. When Benedick calls her, "a rare parrot-teacher", she responds with, "A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of / yours" (1.1, 133-135). Although Beatrice's fate is not important to ... to her father's every beck-and-call, and does not argue the fact that he will choose a husband for her. When Hortensio romances her with his translations, Bianca protests for a quick second, but then falls in love wi...

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... that Lear gives them. Once Lear had given the land to his daughters, the power that they have corrupts them. When Lear needs a place to stay, the daughters are not quick to react; Goneril allows him to stay but he must "disqualify his train" (1, 4, 126). She even goes to the extent of making Oswald "slack of former services" (1, 3, 10) to Lear ... ...

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... Desdemona that he falls into an unconscious fit; later he loses control publicly and taunts and strikes his wife. Othello's fatal flaw is his jealousy. The worldly, wise Iago is quick to spot this weakness in the General and quickly uses it to get his revenge on him. Through manipulation, Iago makes Othello believe that Desdemona is having an affair with ... ...

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... requires openness. Hermia is able to find her lover eventually by using her hearing to its full potential: Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes. Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense. Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found; Mine ear, I thank it, brought me ... ...

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... that Hamlet's actions although strange, do not appear to stem from madness. And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose/ Will be some danger; which for to prevent,/ I have in quick determination [Act III, scene I, lines 165-167]. Polonius admits that Hamlet's actions and words have a method to them; there appears to be a reason behind them, they are logical in nature ... ...

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