productions received a heterogeneous audience with non just aristocrats but their servants‚ hangers-on and a substantial middle class segment too. This period saw a flourish in comedies and also the emergence of the first professional woman playwright‚ Aphra Behn. Charles II was an active patron of drama. Soon after he came to the throne‚ he gave exclusive play staging rights to the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company headed by Thomas Kiligrew and William Davenant‚ who were his mates during exile.
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Beowulf The Wanderer. The Seafarer C. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (The General Prologue‚ and one tale). Christopher Marlowe: The Tragic History of the Life and Death of Dr Faustus William Shakespeare: Sonnets. The Taming of the Shrew‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Measure for Measure‚ The Tragedy of King Richard II‚ Hamlet‚ Othello‚ King Lear‚ The Tempest. John Donne: The Sun-Rising‚ To His Mistress Going to Bed. John Milton: Paradise Lost (A) John Dryden: Alexander’s Feast. Alexander Pope:
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“Where are you going where have you been” Oates Psychology Hawthorne’s romanticism Poe’s Gothicism Music Inspired by a Bob Dylan song- “It’s All Over Now‚ Baby Blue” Connie- is she dynamic character? Why or why not? Connie at Home- mom always comparing her to her older sister‚ say mom and sister are just jealous of her‚ resentful of the family but in the end she sacrifices herself for them Connie when out with friends Why does she go with Arnold Friend? Real- real people and real situation
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AP English Language and Composition Summer 2014 Assignment David Gold Introduction: An AP course in English Language and Composition is essentially a course in rhetoric that engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts‚ and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes‚ audience expectations‚ and subjects‚ as
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The story of English--from its start in a jumble of West Germanic dialects to its role today as aglobal language--is both fascinating and complex. This timeline offers a glimpse at some of the key events that helped to shape the English language over the past 1‚500 years. To learn more about the ways that English evolved in Britain and then spread around the world‚ check out one of the fine histories listed in the bibliography at the end of page three. The Prehistory of English The ultimate origins
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During the Renaissance‚ Reformation‚ and 18th Century‚ Britain faced many changes which also happened to affect the literature what was written in this time. There were many shifts in rulers during these three time periods‚ including the first female queen and the first time parliament killed the British king and ruled. Due to all of the changes in society‚ the perception of masculinity changed in literature as well. More specifically‚ masculine power changed throughout these time periods. Masculine
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Bibliography: Owens‚ W.R. Goodman‚ L. Shakespeare‚ Aphra Behn and the Canon. New York‚ Routledge. (1996) Oliver‚ H. J. Shakespeare‚ W. As you like it. England‚ Penguin. (2005) Tutor’s Notes. Seminar 4. ELT 203. 2012
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A Room of One’s Own Summary Virginia Woolf‚ giving a lecture on women and fiction‚ tells her audience she is not sure if the topic should be what women are like; the fiction women write; the fiction written about women; or a combination of the three. Instead‚ she has come up with "one minor point--a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She says she will use a fictional narrator whom she calls Mary Beton as her alter ego to relate how her thoughts on the lecture
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History Of Slavery An evil of civilization Slavery enters human history with civilization. Hunter-gatherers and primitive farmers have no use for a slave. They collect or grow just enough food for themselves. One more pair of hands is one more mouth. There is no economic advantage in owning another human being. Once people gather in towns and cities‚ a surplus of food created in the countryside (often now on large estates) makes possible a wide range of crafts in the town. On a large farm or
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Why does theatre survive? 3rd term acting studies essay by Ralph Gassmann "All the world’s a stage " to quote the world’s most famous playwright William Shakespeare who rose to prominence in the 16th century during the reign of Elizabeth I‚ and who’s plays have excited and obsessed the generations since and will doubtless continue to do so as we approach the 2nd millennium. On this stage the actor represents the symbol of man with all his imperfection and weakness‚ with all his morals and
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