Shakespeare's Plots: A Study in Dramatic Construction |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
æsthetic Antonio appear argosies artistic Banquo Bassanio beauty becomes begins blood Brabantio Brutus Brutus and Cassius Casca casket Cassius Catastrophe cause character Climax Clown conspirators conversation danger death deed describes Desdemona doth drama dramatist Duke Duke's Duncan effect Emilia emotions enters Episode expresses eyes Fabian Fall fate fear feelings Fleance fore foreshadowed gives Gratiano Growth hath heart human Iago Iago's informs Introduction Jessica Julius Cæsar King Lady Macbeth latter lord Macduff Main Action Malcolm Malvolio manifests Maria Mark Antony means Merchant of Venice Michael Cassio mind murder nature Nerissa night Octavius Olivia Othello passion perceive perfect play Plot poet Portia portrays refers replies result retire reveals Roderigo Romeo Romeo and Juliet says Scene Sebastian Shake Shakespeare Shylock Sir Andrew Sir Toby soliloquy soul speak spectator Sub-Action thane thee thou thought tion tragedy tragic uttered Venice Viola Weird Sisters wife words
Popular passages
Page 85 - Whence is that knocking ? How is 't with me, when every noise appals me ? What hands are here ? ha! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. Lady Macbeth
Page 251 - murder would be: A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice, Cry " Havoc,
Page 294 - And again, when Antony is left alone with the corpse : O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! In
Page 463 - Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. It
Page 269 - a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 169 - How like a fawning publican he looks! ' I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 67 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. Macbeth
Page 248 - alludes to the former when, in his first conversation with Brutus, he said : Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Caesar refers to the latter; viz., Fate, overruling Providence, when he asks
Page 62 - Was the hope drunk And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love ? Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire ? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of