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    Deception in Shakespeare

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    Deception in Shakespeare Beguilement. Deceitfulness. Duplicity. Insincerity. Trickery. Untruth. All of these words are synonyms for one: deception. Deception is officially defined as misleading “by deliberate misrepresentation or lies” (The Free Dictionary by Farlex). But how is it that lies are told and then identified? Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have detected different areas of the brain are involved in telling a lie and telling the truth. “Sections of the

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    Mid Sweden University Department of Humanities English Studies The Evil in Dorian Gray: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Protagonist in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Rosanna Eklund English C / Special Project Tutor: Joakim Wrethed 2007-02-14 Table of Contents Introduction Previous Research The Victorian Era and Aestheticism About the Author The Psychoanalytic Theory Dorian Gray and the Conscience Dorian Gray and Consciousness Dorian Gray and the Unconscious Dorian Gray’s Path to Degradation

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    According to Aristotle‚ the tragic hero is impeded by a distinguishable characteristic or character trait which leads to his ultimate demise. This trait is known as hamartia‚ or the "tragic flaw." This characteristic is said to not only lead to the hero’s demise but may also enable the reader to sympathize with the character. So it follows that in Oedipus the King‚ a Greek tragedy‚ the tragic hero Oedipus should have some sort of flaw. However‚ after close examination of the text‚ no distinguishable

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    The life of shakespeare

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    comedy as a basis for societal disruption is to consider the way in which comedy could lead to disorder. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ looks at such ideas‚ the conflicts between the old and the new‚ Being a comedic play‚ ‘The Merchant of Venice’ ends in familiar format that many Elizabethan plays followed‚ that of multiple marriages‚ a positive resolution and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare’s tragedies. The play’s initial reception was met with appeal as the presentation of

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    Shakespeare

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    Sometimes the best plan is to do things by the book. With over 100 million Harry Potter readers desperate to rush down cinema aisles to see their hero on the big screen for the first time‚ you can’t blame Chris Columbus for sticking close to J.K. Rowling’s novel. It’s one thing to let your imagination loose with the words on the page; it’s another to have those images backed up by a multi-million dollar Hollywood budget. And from the gripping very first sight of an owl perched on the Privet Drive

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    Shakespeare in Love

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    film centres around the forbidden love of William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) and a noble woman‚ Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow). As the film begins‚ Shakepeare’s patron Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush) finds himself in debt to loan shark Hugh Fennyman (Tom Wilkinson). Henslowe offers Fennyman a partnership in the upcoming production of Shakespeare’s newest comedy‚ Romeo and Ethel‚ The Pirate’s Daughter promising that it will be a hit. This play will later be renamed Romeo and Juliet and be reworked

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    NO MORE SHAKESPEARE

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    Dimary Sanchez 12/28/13 Shakespeare? NO MORE! Shakespeare? More like bore me to sleep speare‚ plays like this should not be enlightened anymore. Shakespeare should NOT be taught to students in High School nor any school due to his advanced themes and language. What is the point of studying his work if it is not even fun to study? Shakespeare is neither amusing nor enjoyable. In the words of Merida‚ parent‚ “Majority of university

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    Shakespeares Sonnets

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    Arian Brethorst 11/20/12 Research Paper Shakespeare and His Sonnets When people evaluate Shakespeare‚ they more often than not recall his plays and writings; what people don’t ordinarily ponder on is that he was also famous for the sonnets that he had written. He is renowned for his outstanding plays‚ which have left a great trace in the course of literature and culture‚ and also for the invention of the new form of the verse – a sonnet. No one truly knows if his sonnets were devoted to

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    Race in Shakespeare

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    discussion that has brought social discomfort and in most instances racial prejudice - Elizabethan England being no exception. William Shakespeare applies the issue of race in many of his plays; such in the tragedy of Othello that captures the reality of society in Elizabethan England‚ showing common racial bias of that era. Through his characters in the playShakespeare illustrates Elizabethan social ideology towards race‚ in which foreigners have adapted to a lifestyle of racial prejudice. In order

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    Shakespeare or Fakespeare?

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    patient world‚” (Anderson) said the novelist Henry James. William Shakespeare is a world renowned playwright who is known for his plays‚ sonnets‚ and poems; however‚ it has been said William Shakespeare was in fact an alias for the real author‚ Edward de Vere‚ a theory started by J. Thomas Looney’s book Shakespeare Identified in 1920. J. Thomas Looney was an English schoolteacher who felt as if the myth of William Shakespeare needed to be corrected in a sense. Looney ’s book begins by outlining

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