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    also been seen in English literature. The Navarasas are‚ Shringara – love and beauty‚ Haasya – joy or mirth‚ Bibhatsya – disgust‚ Rowdra – anger‚ Shanta – peace‚ Veera – courage‚ Bhaya – fear‚ Karuna – grief and Adbhuta – wonder and curiosity. Shakespeare‚ being known for his remarkable portrayal of characters‚ has‚ in his plays‚ the perfect depiction of the Navarasas. His characters are alive‚ and their emotions are almost tangible. An example for Shringara‚ the rasa illustrating love or beauty

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    The Impact of Shakespeare Shakespeare is known for his astonishing plays and mysterious ways of thinking. Teaching Shakespeare at school‚ though is a whole another matter. Teaching Shakespeare to students can help increase their development‚ brain wise‚ and teach youngsters about life lessons they have learned from reading his work. His work has a big impact in society‚ whether it’s prisoners lives turning around or showing the perspectives of young people making the reader/audience learn something

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    Merits and Demerits of Shakespeare In Preface to Shakespeare‚ Johnson has shown the merits and demerits of Shakespeare based on the plays he has edited. Here he gives the readers some sound ideas about the virtues and faults of Shakespeare. That Shakespeare’s characters have am interaction with nature and that his works have a universal appeal are the major assertions of Johnson in favour of Shakespeare’s merits and what he says about the demerit of Shakespeare is that Shakespeare tries more to please

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    performed in daylight whereas in 21st Century theatre plays are shown during the day and night‚ although they did not have lighting back then so therefore had no choice but to use natural lighting which makes the focus more upon their acting‚ hence why Shakespeare used such descriptive language for his plays. It is performed on a simple thrust stage of an Elizabethan playhouse where the audience would surround the actors horizontally and vertically. However‚ most people associated Elizabethan theatres with

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    education has always been a common concern for society for years. Educational reforms today face a lot of challenges including fragmented curriculums. In both Eugene Provenzos essay‚ “Hirsch’s Desire for a National Curriculum” and E.D. Hirsch’s essay‚ “Preface to cultural Literacy”‚ the previous authors debate whether or not a standardized curriculum is to be endorsed or not in the nation. It is the responsibility of schools to encourage the shared information between teachers and their students considering

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    Samuel Johnson in his‚ Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language‚ employs a multitude of rhetorical strategies to aid the development of his argument that the English language must be standardized and that lexicographers have had their valuable positions destroyed. Johnson begins by constructing the first paragraph through the employment of anaphora‚ continually repeating “to be” at the beginning of each clause. Through this structure‚ Johnson presents to the reader how the lower class workers

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    Who Is the Indian Shakespeare? 1 Who Is the Indian Shakespeare? Appropriation of Authority in a Sanskrit A Midsummer Night’s Dream David V. Mason University of Wisconsin-Madison Published in New Literary History 34:2 (Fall‚ 2003) David Mason 814C Eagle Heights Madison‚ WI 53705 (608) 238-1342 dvmason@facstaff.wisc.edu Who Is the Indian Shakespeare? 2 “Do you know who is the Indian Shakespeare?” Late in 1994‚ I was on my way from Rishikesh to Mussoorie. In India studying Sanskrit‚

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    THE FOOD OF FOOLS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FOOLS’ GUSTATORY IMAGERY IN KING LEAR by Sara Rafferty Sparer A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton‚ Florida August 2009 UMI Number: 1468486 INFORMATION TO USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print‚ colored

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    The modernised adaptation of the prologue has effectively conveyed numerous important themes and ideas from Shakespeare’s original script: Romeo and Juliet * The theme of love is still evident through our adaptation. This is shown through the medium shot used‚ which lets the audience see hand actions‚ whilst also seeing the facial expressions between the two lovers‚ where we are seen their expressed emotions. * Since the prologue was adapted‚ it was chosen that the head of the Capulet

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    What was Shakespeare Biography? Who was William Shakespeare? Where was he born? Where did he go to school? How did William Shakespeare live his life from the beginning to the ending? William Shakespeare’s life became a great mystery with lack of evidence to support any findings. His schooling‚ his family and parents will be revealed in my paper. Who were William Shakespeare’s parents? The parents of Mr. Shakespeare were John Shakespeare and Mary Arden Shakespeare. Mary Arden married William

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