Plays

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Iago has been passed over for a promotion. Cassio got the promotion to Lieutenant even though Iago had more time in service as a soldier. Cassio got the promotion over Iago because his learning included theory and strategy whereas Iago's did not.

Montague has this line in Act I Scene 1: "Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach? Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?" Benvolio answers him so we must assume that Benvolio is his nephew. That makes Benvolio Romeo's cousin.

it is a list of conspirators that conspired to kill caesar.

The author of the screen play was/is Reginald Rose.

the boys are going to take him out for dinner that night

Don Pedro says that he will propose the marriage of Claudio and Hero to Leonato her father and get his consent. This he does. Claudio is grumpy because he has been fooled by Don John into believing that Don Pedro wanted Hero for himself.

it's what you write on your homework after you read the story yourself

Cassius recalls a windy day when he and Caesar stood on the banks of the Tiber River, and Caesar dared him to swim to adistant point. They raced through the water, but Caesar became weak and asked Cassius to save him. Cassius had to drag him from the water. Cassius also recounts an episode when Caesar had a fever in Spain and experienced a seizure. Cassius marvels to think that a man with such a feeble constitution should now stand at the head of the civilized world.

Because they all tell the same story.

"But all the story of the night told over,

And all their minds transfigured so together,

More witnesseth than fancy's images

And grows to something of great constancy;

But, howsoever, strange and admirable."

The Friar's notion that their marriage might end the feud was a good one, but only if all three of them promptly told their parents. A secret marriage was not going to end the feud. They would probably wait until the marriage was consummated to put it beyond annulment. Had Friar Lawrence showed up on Tuesday and announced to Capulet, along with Juliet, that she was Romeo's wife and would have to travel to Mantua to be with him, Capulet would have raged but that would have been the only chance to end the feud and still keep Romeo and Juliet alive and together.

The facts of Tybalt's death and Romeo's banishment may have made it impossible for Friar Lawrence to try to end the feud by disclosing the marriage. If that was so, he should have prevented the marriage from being consummated.

Throughout the play, we find that Friar Lawrence is weak and unable to stand up and face the music at every point where it might possibly help. Therefore his idea to end the feud by marrying Romeo and Juliet, because it depends on his being able to tell this unpleasant truth to the parents, was unwise.

Shere does not have an equivalent English meaning, however "sher" in urdu translates to "tiger" in English

There is a sort of conflict in Lady Macbeth's mind between what she wants to do (i.e. kill Duncan) and what she suspects rightly Macbeth will want to do (i.e. not kill Duncan). She therefore sets about persuading him to let her plan the murder, so she can overcome the objections she knows he will make.

Faustus thinks he is really a smarty pants. Apparently having exhausted all that there is to know in Academia, he makes a pact with Lucifer through his Massinger Mephistopheles. The deal gives Faustus 24 years of earth life under Mephistopheles as his guide in exchange for his soul. Faustus wishes to know all nature of things in the universe. Mephistopheles answers (save for who created the universe?). The rest of the sub-plots involve Faustus using his new book of magic to play pranks on the Pope or make antlers grow out of a knight's head. Faust pretty much squanders his time performing tricks and partaking in earthly delights. The ending ties in with the initial plot conflict. The devil wants his payment.

They are cousins, both Montagues. Young men, caught up in the conflict with the Capulets (the rival family) and with life in the City. They are also very different. Mercutio is talkative, protective, street-smart, a little older, more aware of his surroundings. Romeo is more of an introvert and a romantic, falling in and out of love easily. He lives, in part, in his own dreamy world. His father also thinks him soft, a little weepy ("his tears augment the fresh morning's dew"). Mercutio dies protecting Romeo from Tybalt, Julie's favorite cousin; Romeo then kills Tybalt.

Before the Duke Reaches Othello, News Arrives in Venice that the Turks are going to attack Cyprus. Othello is Summoned to advise the Senators.

I had to do a persausive letter on this here is a part of it:

I know you had your heart set on marrying Demetrius, but Lysander is more worthy. Lysander truly loves me and always will, but how do you know that Demetrius always will too? "Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena… Upon this spotted and inconstant man" (15). Demetrius was in love with Helena until he saw me. He just ran out on her, and now her heart is broken in two because of him. While it is true that Demetrius loves me, he also loved Helena and now he is treating her poorly. If I did wed him, he might run out on someone again, and then my heart would be broken. And he would treat me how he treats Helena now. Lysander would always be with me and would be kind and gentle. Unlike that warped gasty-witted flirt-gill, Demetrius!

Hamlet's mother is Gertrude. She is the queen of Denmark and is married to Claudius. She was originally married to Old Hamlet before he was murdered by Claudius. Gertrude is a weak woman that needs a man around her (ie. her quick marriage to Claudius). Gertrude loves Hamlet dearly, but also watches as Hamlet is sent away to his death.

Nobody, actually. The third apparition, a crowned child holding a tree, says this:

Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until

Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill

Shall come against him.

Later Macbeth, to reassure himself, says this:

I will not be afraid of death and bane,

Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.

Later still Macbeth says this when it is reported to him that Birnam Wood appears to be approaching Dunsinane.

'Fear not, till Birnam wood

Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood

Comes toward Dunsinane.

Not because he is mean; he is not at heart a cruel man. But he has been so tortured by jealousy that he is angry with Desdemona all the while he still desperately loves her. The outrage is not only that he hits her (that's bad enough) but he hits her in public. Nobody who knew them in Venice can believe it.

A play within a play is a term used to describe a situation in a play where, usually, the actors are either watching a play or putting on a play. One example of this is the 1982 play Noises Off by English playwright Michael Frayn. In Noises Off, the actors are performing a play called Nothing On, a comedy that goes wrong in every possible way offstage,.

Bestial. They want to make their relationship look like one of mere sexual pleasure, such as beasts might have. That is why the expression "making the beast with two backs."

He's a man of wax. That's a good thing, apparently. However, it does seem that the nurse would say this about any suitor for Juliet who was more or less male. After saying that about Paris, she is extremely complimentary about Romeo in Act II Scene 5. Then when it seems convenient to do so, suddenly (in Act III Scene 5) she's complimenting Paris again: "O! He's a lovely gentleman; Romeo's a dishclout to him."