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2 days ago · Macbeth, Act I, Scene IV Macbeth is an anomaly among Shakespeare's tragedies in certain critical ways. It is short: more than a thousand lines shorter than Othello and King Lear, and only slightly more than half as long as Hamlet. This brevity has suggested to many critics that the received version is based on a heavily cut source, perhaps a prompt-book for a particular performance. This would ...
- Macbeth, King of Scotland
Macbethad mac Findláech (anglicised as Macbeth MacFinlay;...
- Macbeth (Character)
Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis and quickly the Thane of...
- Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's...
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time...
- Three Witches
The Three Witches, also known as the Weird Sisters or...
- The Scottish Play
A 1972 book cover for a Galician printing of Macbeth....
- Siward, Earl of Northumbria
Siward (/ ˈ s uː w ər d / or more recently / ˈ s iː w ər d...
- Shakespearean Tragedy
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, Joshua Reynolds (1784)....
- Macbeth, King of Scotland
5 days ago · Mary Rose (1623) For other ships with the same name, see HMS Mary Rose. Mary Rose was a 26-gun ship in the service of the English Navy Royal. After commissioning she mainly served in Home waters. With the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 she was in the service of the Parliamentary Forces. She served until wrecked in a storm in 1650.
3 days ago · Iago The influential early twentieth-century Shakespeare critic A. C. Bradley defined Othello's tragic flaw as a sexual jealousy so intense that it "converts human nature into chaos, and liberates the beast in man... the animal in man forcing itself into his consciousness in naked grossness, and he writhing before it but powerless to deny it entrance, grasping inarticulate images of pollution ...
- William Shakespeare
- 1941
20 hours ago · William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
3 days ago · Medieval Russian states around 1470, including Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, Ryazan, Rostov and Moscow. The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians.
3 days ago · An Indentured Servant Asks Parents for Help (1623) Indentured servitude was a system of labor in which a person had to work for four to seven years without pay in exchange for passage to the “New World.†Employers in Virginia (often planters) were expected to supply servants' housing, food, and clothing but servants had few legal rights and little chance at upward mobility.
1 day ago · The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and — around 300,000–250,000 years ago — anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. [1]
