Plays

Unknown to himself, Oedipus was abandoned by his parents because a prophecy said that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Wandering the world, Oedipus becomes a fighter but achieves lasting fame by guessing the riddle of a sphinx who threatened the city of Thebes, and saving the city. As a reward, he is allowed to marry the widowed queen Jocasta (her husband Laius was killed by some wandering fighter) and become King of Thebes. Many years later, through information received through a series of witnesses, Oedipus slowly discovers that he was the wandering fighter who killed the former king, and that in fact he is the son of the Laius and Jocasta, and that the prophecy has come true. Jocasta kills herself and Oedipus puts out his eyes.

On the one hand, Caesar was Brutus's friend and mentor. On the other, Brutus was convinced that Caesar's ambition would destroy the Roman state.

The original Nutcracker play was ballet.

Desdemona, daughter of Brabantio, was Othello's wife.

Shakespeare wrote The Taming of the Shrew for the same reason he wrote all of his plays--for money. That's how he earned his daily crust. There was already a similar play out there called The Taming of a Shrew, and Shakespeare used the idea for his own purposes.

Because she knew that it meant things were going to change which she didn't want. She wanted him to go back to cutting cane and seeing him for five months every summer instead of him working at the paint shop and seeing him every day. She's really selfish in that way

Oberon instructs Puck to create a fog so the young men will not be able to see each other. Then Puck (who is also called Robin Goodfellow) is to imitate the voices of Lysander and Demetrius to lure them away from each other. We see that Puck is successful and the duel is avoided.

Edmund, who is the illegitimate son of Gloucester, is one of the villains of King Lear. He incriminates his brother and tries to gain absolute power.

Goneril and Regan, King Lear's two eldest daughters, are also villains. They collude with Edmund to gain power for themselves.

In the Birlings' Dining room, after a celebratory meal, Sheila Birling is engaged.

Plays are categorised as either a comedy (made to make people laugh) or a tragedy (the equivalent of a soap opera); a tragedy is a play where bad things happen to the main characters, but in this case are resolved pleasantly for them.

Well it changes a lot from being romantic in love with Lysander then being horrible to Helena.

because her husband died

First to fly around the world non-stop in his own plane

Shakespeare wrote about every possible type of character.

Old Heim is another name for Santa Clause.

Brutus

He ignores Artemidorus' petition he wanted Caesar to read as well as the Soothsayer's warning about the ides of March.

You can't. You simply can't. It doesn't exist.

Hero and Claudio have problems, but they marry and are happy at the end.

Julius Caesar

Portia spoke to the soothsayer at around the ninth hour. This means is was about 9:00 pm. This occurs in Act 2, Scene 4 of Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar.

Like Shylock and the Merchant of Venice, it has overtones that are anti-Semitic.

1) It mocks Jews (as well as Christianity and Islam).

2) It portrays Jews as controlling all the money.

3) It portrays a Jew as immoral and murderous. Hitler would approve of this.

Once the Exposition has come to an end, the Inciting Incident begins the forward movement of the plot.

because its educational and its easy to read and Shakespeare was a very inspirational writer

Pedestrian by Thomas Lux 1946