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    Shakespeare Authorship

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    attributed to William Shakespeare shows education‚ experience‚ creativity‚ and wisdom far beyond what many people are willing to accept came from a single author. This is due to the scarcity of facts concerning his life‚ speculation rose about whether or not Shakespeare became more common. In turn‚ some have chosen to put forth other candidates as to who authored the plays. However‚ these theories have little sustenance and it is likely that the entire body of work attributed to Shakespeare in fact belonged

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    Shakespeare in Love

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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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    Shakespeare and Tolerance

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    This page intentionally left blank SHAKESPEARE AND TOLERANCE Shakespeare’s remarkable ability to detect and express important new currents and moods in his culture often led him to dramatise human interactions in terms of the presence or absence of tolerance. Differences of religion‚ gender‚ nationality‚ and what is now called ‘race’ are important in most of Shakespeare’s plays‚ and varied ways of bridging these differences by means of sympathy and understanding are often depicted. The full

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    The Work of Shakespeare

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    Work of Shakespeare William Shakespeare‚ born in April 1564 was the son of John Shakespeare who was a prosperous alderman in the town of Stratford and was later granted a coat of arms by the College of Heralds. Not much was known of Shakespeare’s youth and is presumed that he attended the Stratford Grammar School. It was known that his father lost his fortune and Shakespeare could never finish school. At the age of 18‚ he married Anne Hathaway who was 26. Being financially broke‚ Shakespeare was debarred

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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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    influence on 21st century society. It is harder to imagine a more universal writer than William Shakespeare. Rarely if ever is one of his many plays not being performed somewhere in the world and similarly rare is the tertiary English student who has not examined his work at length. His plays‚ sonnets and poems are common fodder for high school English departments across the globe. Shakespeare has perhaps contributed the most to the English language of any writer known to man – literally. Over

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    Shakespeare in Love

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    The 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

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    William Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was easily one of the greatest playwrights of all time. He has written many plays including Romeo and Juliet‚ Much Ado About Nothing‚ Macbeth‚ and Hamlet. Shakespeare was also one of the proprietors to the Globe theater in 1589. Much of his work is still performed today. Shakespeare was born on April 23rd 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. John was an alderman of Scotland who had served as mayor in 1569. Neither of his parents could

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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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    Shakespeare In Love

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    Shakespeare in Love vs. The Real Deal John Madden’s Shakespeare in Love (1998) shows what could have happened to inspire William Shakespeare to write one of his most famous plays‚ Romeo & Juliet. Shakespeare in Love shows many similarities to the play Romeo & Juliet. Actors and actresses that play the main characters in this film are Joseph Fiennes‚ Gwyneth Paltrow‚ and Geoffrey Rush. In the film they show many reenactments of how William Shakespeare may have first performed and wrote Romeo

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