Plays

Othello is obsessed with Desdamona, making it easy for Iago to use him and make him believe anything. Iago is obsessed with his revenge for not being promoted. He wants to get revenge on Cassio and Othello for making him look like a fool.

Gloucester is a loyal nobleman to King Lear, and his rank falls short of duke. Early on, it is revealed that Gloucester is an adulterer, having conceived his son, Edmund, before marriage. He faces a similar fate as King Lear: they both misjudge which of their children to trust and both go through a realization. Gloucester demonstrates his loyalty to Lear by succumbing to painful punishment in order to ensure Lear's safety.

A witch hunt is the search for either evidence of witchcraft or people who practice it. Metaphorically, this can apply to any situation.

a sense of danger and menace, long pauses which make the audience uncomfortable.

Othello kills Desdemona.

Iago kills Roderigo and Emilia.

He is a bastard in the sense that his parents were unmarried. He shares a father with Don Pedro but they have different mothers, and Don Pedro's is the woman who was married to their father. Although it is not explored in the play, his bastardy may be a cause of his resentment and desire to be a troublemaker. Certainly this is the case with Edmund, Gloucester's bastard son in King Lear.

Although both of these illegitimate sons are portrayed as bad characters, Falconbridge, the bastard in King John, is in fact a good guy.

He tricks Claudio into believing lies about Hero.

Pretty darn easy, at least at the beginning of the scene. Antonio is about to have his heart cut out, without anaesthetic, just because he couldn't pay a debt on time. He's prepared to pay it late, he's prepared to pay it with 200% interest or more, but Shylock isn't interested. Even if you know that Shylock's real motive is to pay Antonio back for being a nasty anti-Semite, his attempted revenge is way over the top. After we know Antonio to be safe, however, he becomes less sympathetic, and we start to feel sorry for Shylock who is punished for daring to use the legal system of Venice when he is a Jew by having all of his money taken away along with his right to practice his religion. That's way over the top too.

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There are three intertwining main plots. None of them is significantly more important than the others.

Belmont is the Italian location of Portia's villa. The location has been identified as the Villa Foscari, on he banks of the river Brenta,

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Lucilius

It's very simple. Oedipus, a number of years ago was a wanderer when he saved the kingdom of Thebes from a Sphinx. As a reward, he gets to marry Jocasta, the dowager Queen of Thebes, whose husband was murdered on a highway in mysterious circumstances. Fast forward a few years, during which Oedipus and Jocasta have raised a happy family. However, Oedipus is invited to find the murderer of the late king. The play is the story of his investigation, in the course of which Oedipus discovers that he himself is the murderer, and that the late king was his father and Jocasta was his mother. Jocasta hangs herself when this revelation is made, and Oedipus blinds himself.

Hermia loves Lysander.

Lysander and Demetrius both love Hermia.

Helena loves Demetrius.

Don John is arrested and tried for his crimes.

she wears the same yellow dress that she wore when she met her husband

Much Ado About Nothing is a play. It is not a novel.

In this scene of the play 'The Taming of the Shrew' the characters Katherina and Petruchio first meet. They engage in a lengthy verbal clash using elaborate phrases, both constructing a new metaphor from the other's remarks. Petruchio believed he had already understood her character, yet Katherina did not at all know of him. Petruchio decides that he would not try to match Katherina's rage, instead will irritate her by responding to her fury in a sarcastically positive way. Petruchio's self-assured and somewhat haughty manner clashed with Katherina's shrewish and opinionated nature, causing the position of the strongest character to fluctuate throughout the scene.

Petruchio begins by politely greeting Katherina; he says 'Good morning, Kate- for that's your name, I hear'. Her belligerent and aggressive attitude is revealed instantly, for which he is prepared. She replies by saying that he has heard of something that is not feasible as her name is Katherina. At this point in a conversation any other person were to be having with Katherina, they would by no means make the mistake of addressing her as Kate again. Petruchio however easily disregards her correction and goes on to call her Kate. He begins to compliment her with phrases such as 'bonny Kate', 'pretty Kate' and 'super-dainty Kate', he also lightly adds that she will be his wife. It seems already that Petruchio begins to have an affect on Katherina, as she does not again correct him when he continues to call her Kate, this also suggests that she is beginning to accept his will. Nevertheless Kate's attitude does weaken enough for her to ignore him. The words that Petruchio uses to describe her have clear positive connotations but when used to depict her create a sarcastic tone that she recognises and reacts to. She calls him a moveable. When hearing this Petruchio is entirely unoffended and simply asks her what a moveable is, to which she replies 'A join'd-stool'. She clearly means this as an insult but Petruchio To this, Petruchio make a quick witty response and says that he completely agrees with her and that she should sit him. His quick witty response

However, Petruchio drops his calm conduct for a brief moment and in this flash he snaps back at Katherina, he tells her that she should to as she is told. From this it is obvious that there is a moment in which Katherina's petulance proves to be too much for Petruchio and he can no longer And He is able to quickly compose himself and he regains his light tone

In my opinion it is Petruchio that is the stronger character in this scene. He manages to challenge Katherina on several occasions without being stopped or fazed at her snappy responses. He maintains his calm and almost taunting tone throughout their encounter and remains mostly in control of his approach and speech while Kate becomes exceedingly aggravated. unaffected At the end of this scene, he is evidently confident of his ability to tame Kate and of his status as a man so much that he boldly tells her father that she has already agreed to marry him when, in reality, she is not. Ultimately it is Petruchio's assertion of that fact he is superior to her in all ways that will tame Katherina, proving he is the dominant character.

Petruchio

Jessica is planning to run away with Lorenzo. She has been encouraged by her husband to take a large quantity of her father's money so they could have a good time as they travel around Europe on their honeymoon.

We hear later, for example, that Jessica traded her mother's wedding ring for a monkey.

Eventually Jessica and Lorenzo end up at Belmont, their moneyfrittered awayon trivialities. Jessica seems to be quite unhappy about the way things have turned out.

All of the decisions of the court must have been painful for Shylock, but the sentence that he must give his money to this good-for-nothing goyishe wastrel of a son-in-law must have been particularly painful.

He is a peacemaker; he tries to avoid conflict.

Hecate seeks to destroy Macbeth for the simple reason that it would please her. She is the queen of the witches and therefore wants to make as many people as she can miserable. She even criticizes the original three witches for allowing Macbeth to hold information that would make him happy.

Dramatized Bible plays were generally related to the death of Jesus. They were called Passion Plays. Many churches still perform these plays each Easter.

not all secenes or acts end with the actors leaving the stage. sometimes the curtain closes with them in still poses on the stage. but the actors exit the stage to let the audience know that that is the end of the scene or act. also, there might be scene changes, so if the actors exit, it provides the perfect opportunity for the curtain to close and tech come out to change sets.

That's really a hard question to answer because throughout the play the bonds of love are broken by magic, rearranged, and put back together again. Hermia and Lysander love each other from the beginning, but half way through the play Lysander turns on Hermia for Helena because of Puck. So it's not them. Helena and Demetrius don't really survive because Helena loved Demetrius from the beginning, but he did not feel the same for her. Then in the end because of the fairy magic Demetrius loves her, so its DEFINITELY not them. Finally, there's Hippolyta and Theseus who love each other the whole time, but are not affected by the fairies magic so its them .......... but hippolyta does brag about how she have a better times with other men when theseus and her were hunting. so i think that hermia and lysander had the strongest bond because oberon only changed him back which probably showed him that they truly loved each other