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    many years in history women played very smalls roles in society socially‚ economically and politically. And because of this history many authors and screen play writers reflect on the role of women during their time. The role of women in William Shakespeare play Hamlet‚ shows women to rely on the men‚ Shows that the women were dominated and inferior to the men. Queen Gertrude‚ Hamlet’s mother whose husband dies and a few months later she remarries her husband’s brother‚ and as expected hamlet is upset

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    Twelfth Night is a sad but uplifting story about a woman who is mourning a loss and men that are trying to fix her and be with her. Shakespeare makes this women’s uncle an unforgettable figure. This man is named Sir Toby Belch. Shakespeare used Sir Toby Belch in many ways. He used him to drive the plot‚ create some conflict‚ and most of all he made him unforgettable. Shakespeare used sir Sir Toby Belch to create conflict by making him one of the first characters introduced. We immediately find him coming

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    Looking back at history‚ documents show the tension between Puritans and Shakespeare. The play Twelfth Night is perfect evidence that shows how Shakespeare disagreed with the Puritans beliefs .Shakespeare decides to use the character Malvolio to represent the puritans at that time period. Shakespeare uses the character of Malvolio to ridicule the puritans and portrays the puritans as ambitious‚ selfish and bitter. The Puritans gained their power after they renounced the Anglican Church‚ this was

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    maintaining the accuracy of past events. And in this essay I am going to assess the historical accuracy of Shakespeare In Love (1998). Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 British-American romantic comedy-drama film directed by John Madden‚ written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard. The film depicts an imaginary love affair involving Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and playwright William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) while he was writing Romeo and Juliet. Several characters are based on historical

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    written by Shakespeare leading to the outcome of two lovers death due to lack of decision making. Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet come to many points in where story changing decisions come into play in which Shakespeare relates them to faith. In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare implies that when making decisions take your faith back from the stars and make a true decision that you believe in because Romeo takes his faith back from the stars and makes a decision of his own. Although Shakespeare may utter

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    AS YOU LIKE IT As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the First Folio‚ 1623. The play’s first performance is uncertain‚ though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle’s court‚ accompanied by her cousin Celia and Touchstone the court jester‚ to find safety and eventually love in the Forest

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    The Psychosis of Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth is the leading lady in the Shakespearian tragedy‚ Macbeth. Written by William Shakespeare in 1603‚ the tragedy of Macbeth italicize the entire title surrounds the downfall of an honorable man driven by blind ambition. As the play progresses‚ Macbeth gradually becomes a blood-thirsty tyrant. In turn‚ Lady Macbeth transitions from an assertive stoic into a submissive and timid sleep-walker. Lady Macbeth most likely suffers from postpartum psychosis brought

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    In his play Richard III‚ William Shakespeare chronologizes the bloody rise to Kinghood of the deformed English war general Richard III up to his demise‚ including moments of interaction between Richard and a number of women whom he lusts over. Two such interactions‚ between Richard and Lady Anne and later Richard and Queen Elizabeth concerning the Queen’s young daughter Elizabeth‚ highlight exactly how Richard is able to twist a truly broken situation to his advantage. After complaining about his

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    ’’Let me not to the marriage of true minds’’ by William Shakespeare is an Elizabethan sonnet of 14 lines divided in three Quatrains and the habitual rhyming couplet. In this particular poem Shakespeare uses a complete different approach‚ luring the reader by achieving a dramatic change of style. Although keeping the simple A/B/A/B/C/D/C/D/E/F/E/F/G/G rhyming scheme‚ providing the sonnet with an harmonious‚ fluid sound and giving it the pleasant impression of a light-hearted song ’’Let me not to

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    Have you ever heard about Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare? Yes‚ exactly. Literally everyone has heard about it already since it is a very famous work of William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet love so hard under the feud between their family and die because of the feud. One reason why I believe that student should read Romeo and Juliet because it is a famous and climactic tragedy. In my experience I know that many modern works are based on the idea of Romeo and Juliet as well. Additionally

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