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    How does one say goodbye to their lifelong career? Shakespeare had an amazing career creating thirty-six plays before he created The Tempest. The long list of plays that came before The Tempest includes both Hamlet and Macbeth; two plays he is best known for. His career was long and legendary and many people believe that one of his plays‚ The Tempest‚ indicates a farewell to the stage. Shakespeare clearly knew he was writing his last play‚ The Tempest‚ because of the various pieces of evidence in

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    William Shakespeare—Sonnets The first 17 poems of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation. The subsequent sonnets (18 to 126) express the speaker’s love for a young man; brood upon loneliness‚ death‚ and the transience of life. The remaining sonnets (127 to 152) focus on Dark Lady. Dark Lady sonnets are about desire and lust. In this paper‚ I will discuss how William Shakespeare’s

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    Figurative Language‚ Imagery. And Sound in “Sonnet 29” Williams Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 29” is Shakespeare starts the first quatrain with himself talking of disgrace in his fortune and in the eyes of others. In the second quatrain‚ Shakespeare takes the inward thoughts and looks outward with coveting eyes and wishes he could be a different man. By the third quatrain‚ the poet thinks upon the young man to whom the poem is addressing‚ which makes him assume a more optimistic view of his own life.

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    After reading the rather confusing (and extremely hostile) essay "Shakespeare‚" it’s not hard to tell that the author calls for an eradication of William Shakespeare’s plays from English classrooms. The author feels that many of Shakespeare’s great plays‚ including Macbeth‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ and Twelfth Knight‚ are irrelevant to today’s society. Although the language in this essay is extremely convoluted and tangled‚ as I am sure everyone has noted‚ I believe that I have found the quintessence of

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    an Elizabethan or Jacobean text? Contextual study Acting level 2 Penda Madeleine Faal 19th april 2010-04-18 Word count= Pages of essay I want to start with an introduction to the main Elizabethan text: Shakespeare organised reality by stylizing it. Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet arranges various materials and conventions that his audience was already familiar with- a popular story‚ elements of Elizabethan romantic comedy‚ the technique of Petrarchan love poetry. As an actor we have

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    William Shakespeare‚ the well-known playwright intertwines real life themes into his plays making them powerful literature for all to digest. One of the most meaningful quotes that William Shakespeare composed that holds true even until today follows: “Some rise by sin‚ and some by virtue fall.” These crucial words are found in William Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure. This quote states that not everyone who sins will get punished as some will rise in superiority for being a villain; and conversely

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    Toulmin model of argumentation. I think that Shakespeare argues that we create the monsters we fear and only we can

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    Describe one idea worth learning about in the text. Explain why it was worth learning about. John Madden’s Shakespeare in love is a ‘romantic comedy’ set in sixteenth century England. Through its two unfortunate protagonists‚ Will Shakespeare ‘a lowly player’ with writer’s block and wealthy Viola De Lesseps who dreams of ‘love as there has never been in a play‚’ it explores the idea of ‘the truth and nature of love’ in the Elizabethan era. Madden portrays the harsh realities of the time through

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    scripts‚ the main plot is fairly serious until the final act; whilst the sub-plot has a merry‚ happy feel until it takes a brutal twist and the end of Act III. Watching both plots unfold makes exciting viewing for the theatre-goers‚ therefore Shakespeare continues them throughout the entire play‚ bringing them together whenever it suits the occasion‚ such as in the events of Act III Scene Two; during the set-up of the Malvolio ‘prank‚’ before finally combining them in the chaotic conclusion that

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    How far do you think Shakespeare presents Romeo and Juliet as victims of fate? “Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in 1597‚ when people believed that their lives were controlled by fate‚ like a force or spirit that decides the course a person’s life should take. They believed in magic‚ horoscopes and that the Sun‚ Moon and stars could change their destiny. In this play Shakespeare presents Romeo and Juliet as victims of fate in many different ways; as a result it is

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