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Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
A playwright creates dramatic irony when there is some bit of knowledge that the audience is given but that is unknown to one or more of the characters. This can be used to many effects: it can be... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
It’s impossible to say for sure what Shakespeare’s intention was in writing the play. He didn’t say, at least not to anyone who wrote down and preserved what he said. Writers sometimes write to... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
For much of the play Hamlet is terrified of dying, or maybe more accurately terrified of what may happen after death. “No traveler returns” from death, he muses, forgetting in that moment that his... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Most of the events in “Hamlet” are triggered by Claudius’s ambition; when we first see him in Act 1, scene 2, his ambition seems to have brought him everything he ever wanted. By poisoning his... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Is Hamlet being misled by illusions? No one wants an answer to this more than Hamlet himself: he knows that there’s a good chance that the Ghost is not truly the spirit of his father at all, but a...
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