Write an essay of 1500-1700 words (50% of your coursework) following these guidelines: Identify one sonnet (or other poem) about which you wish to write. In addition‚ you must locate and discuss at least one piece of secondary criticism (and not more than two) which analyses this poem or passage. The section of your paper that summarises‚ or paraphrases‚ or quotes from the secondary source should not exceed 30% of your entire paper. Your main job is to develop a counter-argument: explain why this
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Shakespearean Perspective Sumathi Shivakumar According to Aristotle anger always surfaces from an injured self-esteem‚ or a punctured ego‚ or from some affront meted out to the individual directly or indirectly. This aspect of anger is captured by Shakespeare in his four great tragedies‚ with exceptional power‚ which in turn determines and governs the action of the play. If it is ambition and power mongering that drives Macbeth crazy‚ it is the choice to abdicate throne that drives King Lear out of his
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We know very little about Shakespeare’s life during two major spans of time‚ commonly referred to as the "lost years." The lost years fall into two periods: 1578-82 and 1585-92. The first period covers the time after Shakespeare left grammar school until his marriage to Anne Hathaway in November of 1582. The second period covers the seven years of Shakespeare’s life in which he must have been perfecting his dramatic skills and collecting sources for the plots of his plays. "What could such a genius
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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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successful fraud ever practiced on a 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
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delivered. In order to appreciate the words of Shakespeare‚ in particular‚ one must consider the implications of intended cadence. Although Shakespeare’s work can be enjoyed through a silent reading‚ certain nuances of his plays are lost without the aspect of performance or delivery in which the cadence is more visible. In an article from The Sunday Telegraph London Charles Spencer approaches the importance of cadence in performances of Shakespeare. He gets his point across very well by stating
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The Bard at 450 The Bard is alive and with us at 450. The dawn of 2014 is special for that very reason‚ for the world shall sway to the strains of the Bard‚ and in celebrations all over where man exists and the word lives on‚ we shall relive his works a thousand times over. A mortal immortalized by his art of literature‚ ‘not of an age‚ but for all times.’ We shall begin the year of celebration of the Bard in this space by revisiting the Shakespearian Sonnets. Jeet Thayil‚ the writer of Narcopolis
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Shakespeare wrote many plays during his lifetime. Some of his plays have similar comedic characteristics and then other plays are the exact opposite of comedy. Shakespeare wrote tragedies‚ romance‚ history‚ comedy and problem plays all with great success. During the performance of these plays there was no scenery so great time was taken when developing the characters and the plot so the plays would be entertaining. A Midsummers Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing are just two of the comedies
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Jena’ Tolbert Ms. Philips 1st period May 22‚ 2013 William Shakespeare in Love In the movie Shakespeare in Love‚ written by M. Norman and T. Stoppard is about William Shakespeare and his goal or drive as an actor and producer of plays to regain his remarkable gift of imagination. In the adventure of creating his new play‚ he discovers a very impressive female actor named Lady Kent‚ and falls in love. Although he is married‚ he is still capable of falling in love with someone else. It was against
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Occasionally it seems as if Shakespeare is holding up love as the most intensely wonderful and perfect feeling one could experience. Yet‚ most of the time‚ it seems that Shakespeare cannot describe a single couple that is actually as perfect as it appears to be. At first I thought that Shakespeare was criticizing love as an ideal‚ saying that it actually does not exist and is too perfect an ideal to ever be reached. The sonnets are the only clue that Shakespeare gave legitimacy to the concept
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