Twin children‚ a son‚ Hamnet‚ and a daughter‚ Judith‚ were baptised on 2 February 1585. Hamnet died in 1596‚ Susanna in 1649 and Judith in 1662. Shakespeare Before Thomas Lucy‚ a typical Victorian illustration of the poaching anecdote After his marriage‚ Shakespeare left few traces in the historical record until he appeared on the London theatrical scene. Indeed‚ the period from 1585 (when his twin children were born) until
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The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott‚ set in Scotland in the reign of Queen Anne. The novel tells of a tragic love affair between Lucy Ashton and her family’s enemy Edgar Ravenswood. Scott indicated the plot was based on an actual incident. The Bride of Lammermoor was published in 1819; it helps form the third series of Scott’s Tales of My Landlord. In addition to the social implications and the political elements in this novel‚ the pathetic outcome‚ involving madness
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New Texts for New Contexts: how composers keep texts alive! Bram Stoker - Dracula – 1897 Neil Jordan – Interview With The Vampire – 1994 “So there are no Vampires in Transylvania‚ no Count Dracula? All fictions my friend‚ fictions of a demented Irishman” Good morning students and welcome to my class on New Texts for New Contexts. I just quoted Neil Jordan’s film Interview with the Vampire. This modern appropriation of Bram Stokers traditional Dracula narrative is the perfect example of how composers
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subject matter of his creations and because of the inextricable link between Wordsworth the man and Wordsworth the poet‚ the poems discussed in this paper have been separated into three sections. The first section will deal with poems from the Lyrical Ballads. The second section explores Wordsworth’s Sonnets. While the last section will deal with the "Ecclesiastical Sketches‚" as they have been referred to by critics and poets the like. In his famous poem "The Rainbow‚" Wordsworth grandly proclaims that
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Epic (I) In the placid shallows‚ of a stormy‚ lonely lake; Yew trees stand forlorn weaving fearful shadows in their wake. Young Lucy glitters in the moonlight dim‚ she calls the woodland creatures forth; Some come dragging‚ lost in a pall of gloom‚ Others skitter in their momentary mirth. Lucy tells tales in the twilight And many a roll of laughter rack the animals; Yet oft they wipe their tears‚ and trudge home back. The girl of the lagoon often sings songs‚ and charms the
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VI: Burns "Tis Liberty’s bold note I swell" "Here’s a Health to them that’s awa" "For a’that and a’that" "Afton Water" Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads‚ “Strange Fits Have I known‚”“I wandered Lonely as a Cloud‚” “Ode: Intimations of Immortality‚”“The Solitary Reaper‚” “Michael‚” “The Ruined Cottage” From The Prelude‚ Book‚ I and II. “Lucy Gray” Week VII: Wordsworth Week VIII: Coleridge‚ Conversation Poems: “The Eolian Harp” “Reflections on Having Left and Place of Retirement” “This Lime-Tree
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”Roy Spivey” by Miranda July Sofie 3.b A) Media‚ music‚ movies and gossip have a huge impact on the Western world. We know our celebrities‚ and not just a little bit. We know their addresses‚ how their bedrooms look and even their dogs’ names. Even the most down-to-earth person would be stunned and star struck if they met Jennifer Anniston‚ Brad Pitt or any other celebrity. But why do we worry so much about them? Their lives are apparently extremely interesting compared to our own and we would
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and John Wayne were treated like royalty. In the 1950s musicians‚ movie stars‚ and T.V. stars were some of the most important people in America. Musicians in the ‘50s were pretty bland‚ minus Elvis‚ they were all just stand there and sing their ballads or whatever they happened to be singing. Now‚ this is not to say that legendary artists weren’t born out of the ‘50s. Artists from the ‘50s include Johnny Cash‚ Chuck Berry‚ Buddy Holly‚ Hank Williams and Louis Armstrong. Johnny Cash is one of‚ if
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“Three Years She Grew” portray a romantic attitude in their works‚ additionally the values placed on the natural world over the societal world are viewed as more significant in the period of Romanticism. Beginning with “We Are Seven”‚ it is a lyrical ballad that is essentially a story of a modern‚ city man who comes across a young‚ eight year old cottage girl. The poem begins with the first stanza in which was not written by Wordsworth‚ but by Samuel Coleridge. It starts of with the narrator speaking
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Copyright © 1996 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. ELH 63.3 (1996) 657-680 Wordsworth’s "Nutting" and the Violent End of Reading Robert Burns Neveldine Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved‚ and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are‚ on the contrary‚ creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result‚ their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual
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