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Rather than being a play that is simply about 'indecision', Hamlet, one of Shakespeare's great tragedy plays, is instead a dramatic meditation on the human condition. Hamlet's first soliloquy begins with a m...

For unseen poetry, you should always read through the poem at least two or three times in order to understand the content and pick out which features you'll analyse in your answer. On your first read, focus ...

Key advice for an answer:You must come up with a point /a line of argument : In King Lear, Shakespeare subverts ordinary early-modern views of hierarchy and natural order through a sympathetic portrayal of r...

Within literary criticism, scholars are usually concurrent in their view of Ophelia and Gertrude’s ‘frailty’. However, this may be an unfair reading of their character as contextually, the agency afforded to...

Analysing an unseen poem can be very daunting, however there are strategies you can employ to help you decipher them. Firstly, read the poem without making any annotations, just try to understand what you th...