Plays

It is a fair guess, that dozens of movies including cartoons ( short and long) have been done or adapted from basic Fairy tales such as Aladdin, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, etc. There was even a fairly long running series cartoon based on Little Wooden lad! ( Pinocchio) they must have had different plots, as it was on daily mon-fri. I never looked at it. In rare cases some Fairy tale plots- have been modernized and updated into dramatic stories in comic strips- for example one plot involving senior-citizen twin sisters- turns out to be a modernized Witch tale concealing a murder. Police come to the rescue and are uniformly good guys. This was in the Jackson Twins ( not Jackson Five) and was an adaptation of Hansel and Gretel in a sense- early in the entrapment at the Mansion the girls were cut off from communication- but did make use of the pipe organ- no, the cops did, playing ( T for Two) to signal their car ( a model T) had been found! There are other examples of modernized fairy tale plots.

I think Hale went to Proctors house because he heard that John Proctor has been missing out on Sabeth(?) days lately and his third son has not been baptised. Also I think he went to tell John Proctor that Elizabeth's name was mentioned in Court that day.

Bassanio wants to marry Portia, and so needs money.

Bassanio has no credit and so his friend Antonio borrows the money from Shylock.

Shylock dislikes Antonio so agrees to lend him the money interest-free on the security of a pound of flesh from anywhere on Antonio's body (he chooses the spot nearest Antonio's heart). Basically if Antonio doesn't pay up, Shylock can kill him.

Bassanio, with the aid of the money, goes to woo Portia. She loves him alright but, according to her father's will, must marry the man who can guess which of the three boxes her picture is in. Bassanio guesses the right box--Hooray! They get married.

But watch out! Antonio is unexpectedly broke and cannot pay Shylock. Shylock takes him to court and starts sharpening his knife.

Portia disguises herself as a lawyer, and gets Antonio off on a technicality. What's more, she convinces the court to order Shylock to give all his money to his daughter and her goyim husband and to stop being Jewish. This you call justice?

But there's more. Portia asks Bassanio for a fee for her services and insists on taking his wedding ring, which he swore to her he would never get away. Antonio persuades him to do this, and of course there's a tongue-lashing waiting for him when he gets home to his brand-new wife without his wedding ring.

But all is explained and it's yuks all round except for poor Shylock.

; Claudius mentions more than one thing. From Act 4 scene 3:

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Clau: Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety

Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve

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Claudius claims there that he's concerned for Hamlet's well being. We know it's a lie, of course, since Claudius has set up the mission to England to kill Hamlet.

Also Act 4 scene 7:

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Clau: Oh, for two special reasons : Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed,

But yet to me they're strong; the Queen, his mother

Lives almost by his looks, and for myself,

My virtue or my plague, be it either which,

She is so concleave to my life and soul,

That as the star moves not but in his sphere

I could not but by her; the other motive,

Why to a public count I might not go,

Is the great love the general gender bear him,

Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,

Work like the spring that turneth wood to stone:

Convert his gyves to graces, so that my arrows,

Too slightly timbered for so loved, armed,

Would have reverted to my bow again,

But not where I have aimed them. ; -------

In talking to Laertes, Claudius says he needs Gertrude's political support, and she dotes on Hamlet. That's true.

Then, the "public count" idea is that Claudius doesn't want to challenge Hamlet before the general public, because he's afraid people, in general, might like Hamlet better than they like him. Politics, in other words. So altogether, Claudius basically mentions two things. The first one is the lie that he has personal affection for Hamlet. The second is true, that he's worried about his political support against Hamlet, and he doesn't want to risk people turning against him in favor of Hamlet.

Of course when Laertes led his mob to storm the castle, that got Claudius thinking about how popular he was, and it obviously didn't look good for him.

Cabaret (film/musical) was set in 1930s Berlin, when Nazis and Hitler were on the rise.

Brabantio is Desdemona's father. He becomes very upset when Desdemona elopes with Othello and accuses Othello of committing witchcraft in order to woo his daughter. Othello denies any wrongdoing and Brabantio warns Othello that if Desdemona deceived her father, she can deceive Othello as well. Brabantio dies from a broken-heart resulting from Desdemona's marriage.

He quits the court and motivates the individuals who are in jail to confess

'Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna, trust not Trebonius: mark well Metellus Cimber: Decius Brutus loves thee not: thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius. There is but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal, look about you: security gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee! Thy lover, 'ARTEMIDORUS.' Here will I stand till Caesar pass along, And as a suitor will I give him this. My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation. If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live; If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.

From a revisionist-history perspective, definitely: husbands are not the boss of their wives anymore; wives are no longer "chattel". But in the mid-17th century, Shakespear's era, "The Taming of the Shrew" was an accurate play reflecting and commenting on the typical situations in a well-to-do family of the day, just as some movies and other media reflect the present time. It wasn't really until the 1960s-'70s that women began to change the status quo and enter the serious work-world with men in greater numbers and with professional goals that were now actually possible to achieve. But "the women's movement" has a long history, and women are constantly under threat of having their ability to control their reproduction taken away or restricted; the ability to control her reproduction is the single most empowering thing for women--without it, well, potentially a baby a year, a high mortality rate and dependence on a mate to provide for and protect "his" brood.

Cassius has been less than honest; he takes bribes from soldiers who want to be promoted. He has also tolerated one of his corrupt officers who has taken bribes from people outside of the army. Brutus has had this man arrested, and censures Cassius for his own corruption.

The Green Hat

Shylock is a Jew and as such has always been forced to live on the fringes of society. In effect he has an understandable chip on his shoulder. He is not looking for revenge he is just trying to outsmart him.

The main conflict is the internal one within Othello, between his love of Desdemona and his fear that Iago is right about her being an adultress.

obstinate, willful, rude

Yes, Twelfth Night was one of a number of Shakespeare's plays that first saw print in the First Folio of 1623.

Alberto Florentino was born on July 28, 1931. He was a famous author and playwright. His work mainly portrays the life of a common man and struggle of Filipinos. One of his famous work is " The World is an Apple".

Some scholars think it was written between 1594 and 1596, at about the same time as Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

so that she will become pregnant in the year, it is superstition. But the real reason she is unable to consive is because Caesar is sterile.

But the boy's weight, and the weight of the purse combined caused him to lose his balance so, instead of taking off full blast as he had hoped, the boy fell on his back on the sidewalk, and his legs flew up

Over the years hundred of thousands of actors have played the parts in Shakespeare's plays. Some of the ones who were performing alongside of Shakespeare in the 1590s and 1600s included Richard Burbage, John Heminges, Henry Condell, Will Kempe, Thomas Pope, Augustine Phillips, George Bryan, William Sly, Nicholas Tooley and Robert Armin.

What is the resolution of The Soul of Caliban and is everything resolve?

Cassius did

In their long conversation which forms the bulk of Act I Scene 2 Cassius attempts to convince Brutus that Caesar is a threat to the traditional values of the Roman Republic.

Cassius' main argument is simply that Caesar is an ordinary man:

I had as lief not be as live to be

In awe of such a thing as I myself.

Cassius tells Brutus that Caesar sweats when he is ill, and that he does not swim as strongly as a younger man:- but the common people of Rome love him (and this is somehow dangerous):

And this man

Is now become a God, and Cassius is

A wretched creature.

None of the conspirators in the play have any substantial objection to Caesar, and Cassius is simply eaten up with envy. Caesar knows this, he says:

Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look;

He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.

But Caesar is too proud to act on his suspicions. This is his weakness.

According to the play, he was deaf in his left ear. The quote in the play was "Come to my right side because I am deaf on the left."

Helena is rather insecure about herself, as she has been rejected by Demetrius and is always in Hermia's shadow. Though she and Hermia are close friends, she is willing to betray Hermia's trust for just a bit of attention from Demetrius. She is quite naive.