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    Racism in Shakespeare

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    of color existed even in the 17th century. “Shakespeare ’s play is the text that will at once unsettle and fill in‚ substantiate and resolve what the audience suspects it already knows about the essence of blackness as the savage and libidinous Other” (Little 305). Shakespeare wields the prejudice that he knows the audience has come with‚ by making Othello the victim of Iago’s malicious plan. “The weight of critical tradition… presents a Shakespeare who finds racial and cultural difference insignificant

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    Year Round School Persuasive Essay Final Draft Having school year round is one of the worst things you can do to a student. Students may miss out on opportunities to spend time with other kids of different ages‚ miss out on their childhoods. Children with learning problems will fall way behind than other kids and their learning would be compounded. And most students will forget things no matter what therefore teachers will have to perform four beginning of the year instead of one. Kids will

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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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    PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE

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    Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare “The Preface is the impartial estimate of Shakespeare’s virtues and defects by a powerful mind”. (Halliday). Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare is a classic of literary criticism in which he is above his political personal‚ religious and literary prejudices: mentions both the merits and One of the first excellence of Shakespeare‚ as Preface shows: “Shakespeare is above all the writers‚ at least above the modern writers‚ the poet of nature; the poet that holds up

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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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    Othello - Shakespeare

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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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    tools necessary to preserve its culture. The new parents’ reponsibility in society is to first teach proper conduct. At this stage‚ simple manners at home can be taught‚ like how to properly behave as well as eat. For example‚ these behaviors include how to obey your parents and to properly eat at the dinner table. Later‚ at school with the help of teachers‚ the child will learn how to behave and interact appropriately with others. Together‚ these abilities allow the child to blend into 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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    addresses the inevitability that some adolescents have or will engage in sexual behavior. Twenty-one of the fifty states have school districts which provide condom availability programs (Brown‚ Pennylegion‚ & Hillard‚ 1997). Providing information about contraception and how to have “safer” sex is an integral part of comprehensive sex education. Providing condoms in schools is a much debated aspect of some comprehensive programs. In contrast‚ abstinence-only programs discuss abstinence‚ or refraining

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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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