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    William Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was born in the English town of Stratford-on-Avon. He was a poet and a playwright. As a boy‚ William Shakespeare studied Latin and classical literature in grammar school. He never went to a university. By the way William Shakespeare’s plays were it showed he had good knowledge of subjects from history and politics to music and art. When he was 20 Shakespeare became an actor in London. There he learned about drama by writing and performing plays. Shakespeare

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    Marlowe and Shakespeare

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    Cited: Fisher‚ Will. "Handkerchiefs and Early Modern Ideologies of Gender." Shakespeare Studies 28.05829399 (2000): 199-207. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 6 Mar. 2012. Marlowe‚ Christopher. “Edward the Second”. Broadview Editions. Editor Mathew Martin. Claremont‚ Canada: Broadview Press‚ 2010. Print. Shakespeare‚ William. “Othello.” Pelican Shakespeare. Pelican Edition. Editor Russ McDonald. United States: Penguin Books‚ 2001. Print.

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    Shakespeare of Management

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    Yes- I can learn from sources such as Shakespeare on how to work with other people and become a successful manager. Shakespeare was not only the master of literary‚ but also had a deep knowledge of humanity‚ authority and the conflict ‚struggle and fight occurred when people desire to get power and right. In his literary works‚ he explained more on the human conflict in detail. Take ‘Henry V’ for example‚ Shakespeare taught us how to encourage your tired and dispirited soldiers to beat off all

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    The relevance of Shakespeare is‚ in my opinion‚ unquestionable‚ even in contemporary times. Not only is his contribution to the English language immense in its proportions‚ but also enduring. Even today‚ William Shakespeare is a household name the world over. He is quite literally‚ the figure-head of English literature‚ even to the average layman. Innumerable versions of his immortal works are seen again and again in our films‚ plays and even our writing. His simple yet deep concepts have stood the

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    therefore the audience is positioned to see the Venetians as upholding English Christian beliefs. Yet Shakespeare also challenges Elizabethan audience’s perception of ethnicity and race through the characterisation of Othello as being foreign in appearance but having status in the armed forces. Elizabethan audiences were strongly shaped by their socially determined roles and birth right. Shakespeare utilises his audience’s belief in “The Great Chain of Being” in his construction of Venetian society

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    Shakespeare Webquest

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    1. What year was William Shakespeare born? * 1564 2. What date do we recognize as his birthday? * April 23rd 3. What was important about Stratford-upon-Avon in the 16th century? * Stratford-upon-Avon was an important agricultural center and market town. 4. Click on the link for “1594” and find the acting companies Shakespeare was associated with in the early days. Name three. * The Queen’s Men * Pembroke’s Men * Lord Strange’s Men 5. Click on

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    The Shakespeare Plays

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    Top Plays of Shakespeare By: Sajad The About.com/Shakespeare has chosen these plays as the top. Our decisions has not been involved in doing so. 5. Much Ado About Nothing: This play is set in the palace of the governor of Messina in Italy. The governor‚ Leonato has one daughter named hero. The story starts in a party at Leonato’s palace in order to celebrate the victory of the Great War with the soldiers of Don Pedro. Claudio is the hero of the war who has felt in love with Hero‚ although

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    Jacob Denson English 125 February 20‚ 2013 “Shakespeare and Mirikitani: The use of Simile‚ Diction‚ and Tone to express Emotion” Janice Mirikitani’s poem‚ “Suicide Note” and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet both use simile‚ diction‚ and tone to express emotion. Both works use these forms of writing to establish a tone of deep emotion‚ with sadness and despair being at the forefront. “Suicide Note‚” being about an Asian-American college student who commits suicide‚ was written as an apology to her

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    Shakespeare Allusion

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    throughout it. One of the allusions used is in chapter five “When in doubt… it’s from Shakespeare”. The author alludes to past Shakespeare plays and how they’re depicted later on in the 1970s and around the 1980s. Some of his plays have transformed into completely different ideas from what they originally were and with some of them you couldn’t even tell they were one of his plays but you could tell that Shakespeare was in there. For one it mentions one of his works that Woody Allen reworked was “A

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    Shakespeare in the Bush

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    applause. Hamlet was again a good story to them‚ but it no longer seemed quite the same story to me. As I thought over the coming complications of plot and motive‚ I lost courage and decided to skim over dangerous ground quickly.” -taken from Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan We could say that in this part of the story‚ she had a hard time explaining the book the way she wanted it. That is why she had to avoid those hard-to-explain parts so she wouldn’t be questioned more. Another problem

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