Keri Sadler
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Answered a Question in The Odyssey
There are two versions of Tantalus' myth. Either Tantalus stole ambrosia, the food of the goods, and thereby revealed the gods' secrets to men; or Tantalus tricked the gods into eating human... -
Answered a Question in Look Back in Anger
Huge question - and one about which people have written entire books. When it premiered on the 8th May 1956 at the Royal Court, "Look Back" caused uproar - it opens, of course, with Alison Porter... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
I agree with the above poster that the dialogue between Simon and Lord of the Flies is a good start. You might also have a look at the moments of the two deaths - Simon's and Piggy's: particularly... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
Parallel lines run in the same direction without ever touching. You might think of parallel episodes in a text as running along the same lines without necessarily touching. They're episodes of... -
Answered a Question in Arthur Miller
Miller's claim that tragedy *can* be optimistic (as stated in his essay "Modern Tragedy") is comparable to the Aristotelian notion of "catharsis". "Catharsis" is the final stage of a tragedy and... -
Answered a Question in Look Back in Anger
I can't find any information about "flower fifty" at all: all the usual avenues are revealing nothing - so I suspect it might be something that makes more sense in context. Could you point me... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Many of the themes of "Hamlet" - family relationships, the existence (and the providence) of ghosts, political struggles, surveillance and what happens after death -... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
If you think that the first real action that happens in "Twelfth Night" is Viola deciding to costume herself as a boy and live under the name Cesario (though we do not hear the actual name "Viola"... -
Answered a Question in Richard III
I think the short answer to your question is "to build tension". Remember that the audience already know that Clarence is going to be murdered - we've seen Richard in an earlier scene give the... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
I'm not sure that "othered" is actually a word, but I know exactly what you mean. However, I don't think that Portia actively does make Morocco feel different to her because of his skin colour:... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
It's an interesting question. Both characters are often played as knowing rather more than they let on: Viola, of course, knows that she is really a boy, and holds the secret not only of her own... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
I'm guessing it wouldn't help you to list important characters in Shakespeare's plays as many of the tragedies state their important characters in their titles (Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet,... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
There's a direct answer to this excellent question in Act 4, Scene 5. Ophelia has gone mad, and Claudius tells Gertrude that the people are... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
Viola pities Olivia because she does not realise that Viola is not really a man, but a woman (compare Viola's soliloquy 'I left no ring with her', where she calls Olivia a 'poor lady', and suggests... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Shakespeare's play 'Julius Caesar' was likely composed at around the same time as 'Hamlet', and therefore it is likely that the subject matter for the one was in Shakespeare's mind when writing the... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Hamlet, who speaks the majority of the lines in the play, is about to die and stop speaking for ever. He has avenged his father's murder, been cut with the poisoned rapier, and, as he has just... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
'Festive comedy' was sub-genre which a critic called Barber established with her book 'Shakespeare's Festive Comedy'. It argues that the spirit of the festival (meaning simply a public or religious... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
This question has actually been in answered in a full length book by Dr. Leslie Hotson, 'The First Night of Twelfth Night' (1954). Dr. Hotson argues that Twelfth Night is the 'working title' of the... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
'By my life!' is an exclamation of surprise, something like the modern 'Oh my God!' - and Malvolio is surprised because he has recognised what he believes to be his lady's 'hand' (which means... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
It's from Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 4 - the 'Queen Mab' scene, right at the end, before the scene changes to the Capulets' party. Romeo brings an end to the 'Queen Mab' argument between him... -
Answered a Question in Ars Poetica
“Ars Poetica” is written in free verse (sometimes called "vers libre") which characteristically has no set rhyme or metrical scheme. This doesn't mean, however, that there's nothing to say about... -
Answered a Question in Much Ado About Nothing
The play is set in Messina, Italy, in and around Leonato's house (who the text makes clear is the Governor of the town). The soldiers, led by Don Pedro of Aragon, seem to originate in Aragon (in... -
Answered a Question in Doctor Faustus
Basically, they are just two different versions of the same play. The 'A' text survives in two printed versions: a 1604 quarto (reprinted in 1609) which attributes the play to 'Ch.Marl', and, at...
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