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…on Citizen Kane. It is widely considered to be the greatest sound film ever made. The film won the American Film Institute top 100 and the Sight and Sound top 10. Welles also directed such films as Macbeth (1948) and A Touch of Evil (1958), which could never…

…prominent tragedies written and performed were "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear", and "Macbeth". Since Shakespeare was established playwright, he was wealthy because of multiple income sources. In 1597 he bought his family a huge house called New Place, located…

…norms are defied by showing an unpleasant yet realistic relationship between man and woman. This play exaggerates and mocks Shakespeare's Macbeth but it is still consistent with the basic qualities of the characters. The play also says something about…

…. Shakespearean Tradgedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth. 1957. 3rd ed. New York: St. Martin’s, 1992. Sanders, Wilbur, and Howard Jacobson. Shakespeare’s Magnanimity: Four Tragic Heroes, Their Friends and Families. NewYork: Oxford University, 1978…

…was a genius when it came to writing. He proved it in all of his plays, some including Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet. These plays were some of Shakespeare's tragedies which are full of emotion and turmoil. In the play Hamlet, Laertes, one of the leading…

…is a tragic one, much like Macbeth's. His flaw was excessive ambition. Even once he knew he was doing something wrong he could not control himself. He even yearned for self reformation but could not make it possible.         He started off as one…

…a hill. When he saw that it was headed for his house, he was too late to stop it and was crushed when he tried to prevent a catastrophe. In a way, Frankenstein is like MacBeth. They both stacked the odds against themselves and, upon realizing this, both…

…and wash his hands of the guilt, which is a repeated idea from Shakespeare's Macbeth. He then asks, "Whereto serves mercy but to confront the visage of offense?" He is asking what purpose is served by mercy other than deal with the face- visage is French…

…of view goes, the song is done in the first person point of view. As it says in the cover of the CD the Proud is a conversation Talib has with himself. Almost like a number of soliloquies in Macbeth he stands out and talks directly to his listener. He wants his…

…' direction for the New York Shakespeare Festival. The only credit of association during the 19th century is to Shakespeare himself for a reference Woyzeck makes to a line from Lady Macbeth, "There's a spot-and there's another", referring to his blood stained…