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    William Shakespeare

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    Biography of William Shakespeare Quotes - Plays - Sonnets - Pictures - Timeline- Facts - Biography - Poems - Bubonic Plague - Globe Biography - Dictionary - Elizabethan Theater - Identity Problem - Biography - Black Death - Stratford The World of William Shakespeare and details of his biography have fascinated people for centuries. The questions and mysteries which surround William Shakespeare the Great Stratford playwright and his biography‚ life‚ times and works (including his plays‚ sonnets and

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    Shakespeare’s comedy‚ ’Twelfth Night’‚ is not only about tricks‚ pranks or black humour; moreover‚ it’s deeply about love and different types of love and how they affect different personalities. The different types of love mentioned by Shakespeare in ’Twelfth Night’ are: True love‚ boasting love‚ self-love and friendship. ’Twelfth Night’ consists of many love triangles and the different characters involved in the triangles don’t end up with the ones they love or even their love makes them blind

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    ‘Shakespeare ’s plays reflect not life but art. ’ Make use of this remark in writing an essay on Shakespeare ’s use of Metadrama. Shakespeare constantly plays with metadrama and the perception of his plays as theatre and not life with the complications inherent that in life we all play roles and perceive life in different ways. The play has recognition of its existence as theatre‚ which has relevance to a contemporary world that is increasingly aware of precisely how its values and practices

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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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    Hamlet

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    Shakespeare expresses his perspective on death‚ God and inaction through Hamlet‚ a character who represents the dichotomy of the Elizabethan and Renaissance eras. He is initially torn between action and inaction echoing the tensions of the transitional phase between the two eras - He wonders if “’tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune‚ / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles”. The warlike imagery used serves to elevate his desperate indecision to an epic

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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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    Emanuel Rivas 9/27/2013 “The Seven Ages of Man” William Shakespeare is the greatest dramatist of English literature. His superiority as a poet lies in his trendy poem “The Seven Ages of Man.” In this poem‚ Jaques‚ the narrator‚ compares life to a huge stage where all of us are mere actors. Each person has an entry to the world at birth and exits at death‚ living only seven acts. Jaques portrays these seven acts by applying stylistic devices such as diction and figurative language to provide

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    In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ the main character Hamlet is believed to have gone insane after the death of his father. There is much evidence in the play that causes one to believe that Hamlet is in fact crazy. However‚ there are also indications to the contrary‚ Hamlet only feigns madness for the purpose of carrying out his mission. He rehearses his pretend madness first with Ophelia for even if he fails to convince her ‚ that failure would not cause him any harm. The language he uses is clearly

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    Topic: Is Hamlet primarily a tragedy of revenge? Within “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare there are numerous events of revenge. Starting with Claudius’s envy of King Hamlet and ending with the murder of the king. Hamlet tries to avenge his father’s death by murdering Claudius but mistakenly kills Polonius. Claudius tells the news to Laertes right after the death of his father. Claudius hopes that Laertes will take matter into his own hands and slaughter Hamlet. Claudius needs Laertes to go after

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    Hamlet‚ a play written by William Shakespeare has not only affected literature but also directors in the film industry. Directors‚ Kenneth Branagh and Gregory Doran have both made different versions of a film based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Branagh directed a 1996 version of Hamlet while Doran directed a 2009 version of Hamlet. In the exchange of dialogue between Hamlet and the ghost in Act I Scene V‚ Branagh and Doran interpret this key moment differently based on the era of the time. These films

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