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…, they would throw rotten vegetables. The uses of this multiple stage are, in many ways, obvious. The lowest level used trap doors for devils, ghosts, graves and ditches for example, the witches from Macbeth would come out of here. The second level was the main…

…. Shakespeare's Jacobean phase shows great divergence from his Elizabethan phase. During this period he wrote a number of his great tragedies (Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra), his dark, problem comedies devoid of careless gaiety, all…

…Life's But a Walking Shadow Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - Shakespeare's Macbeth…

…of great works of literature such as Orson Welles' Macbeth. Nearly every school shows films of laboratory experiments.         But what of our viewing outside of the classroom? Television is also one of our major sources of informal observational…

…Cleopatra. In Macbeth, Shakespeare depicts the tragedy of a basically good man, who led on by others, succumbs to ambition. In getting and retaining the Scottish throne, Macbeth dulls his humanity to the point where he becomes capable of committing any…

…to be an anarchist. He just didn’t know how to teach high school students and what he did worked perfectly well in that literature class. I know it worked because some of us actually read Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream that semester. Maybe he failed to make…

…is by far not contained into that at all. It uses those small components to shine a new light on an even more basic theme of corruption. This can even be traced back to Shakespeare’s MacBeth in where Lady MacBeth is not satisfied with even her enviable position…

…power to their evil offspring rather that their good offspring. Antony and Cleopatra with a different type of love, namely, the middle-aged passion of the Roman general Mark Antony for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. In Macbeth, Shakespeare depicts the tragedy…

…whose lives must be destroyed for its sake.” (Gillon-25) Many other authors use the theme of light and dark, especially Shakespeare, whom Conrad admired. In Macbeth, for example, much of the play is filled with the struggle between light and darkness…

…dying because of them. One example of this is Macbeth. He was a lord who committed murder, because the witches put the idea in his head. Lady Macbeth edged him on, while he battled his own conscience. In the end, through his own mistrust and suspicion, he…