… or not crazy- That is the question. The matter of Hamlet's so called madness, has been an item of debate since the first performance, and will probably be a continuing argument well into the future. I believe Hamlet was not crazy, because he proves…

… it seems that the chief rebel, Hotspur, is in dispute with the King but as the play progresses we find that the main contest is between Hotspur and Hal, the King's son. At first thought, Hotspur seems to be the easy winner, for all Hal does is spend…

… in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar to commit dangerous and foolish acts. Cassius' jealousy drives him to kill Caesar. All the conspirators, except the noble Brutus, kill Caesar because they feel threatened by his power. Brutus is the only conspirator…

… not in its own conventional sense, but as a way of describing the view of life through female eyes. The outlets used to show examples of this avant-garde usage of the expression come in the form of two cousins with very different yet analogous…

… it is received. In King Lear, suffering was very painful to two people, and the giver wasn't necessarily an enemy, pain can be from the ones you love. A storm isn't something you wouldn't think of when pain comes to mind, but it is an element…

… of man. It is a quality that can possibly lead to tragedy to those who succumb to it. Only through feelings of distrust and suspicion can jealousy win over those who have been fed with lies, and untruths about significant people. This type of…

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… written in the late Elizabethan period. The play conforms to the literary format of a revenge tragedy-indeed, it is widely considered to be a reworking of an ancient tale, versions of which had been in circulation throughout the Byzantine, Greek and…

… and a sense of feeling of what the world looked like at the time. From descriptions of the land, events taking place such as wars, to the epic tales of some of the heroes of the day, these ancient passages give us valuable information from that…

… or a tragedy of a city? In the following quote, W. H. Auden says, 'The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet....is not simply a tragedy of two individuals, but the tragedy of a city. Everybody in the city is one way or another involved in and responsible for…