Redefining Othello: A Study of Charles Marowitz’ ’An Othello’ Shakespeare’s significance can hardly be over emphasized as a repository of a great culture. But more important is the fact that on account of the wisdom born out of rich humanity and his universal humanism‚ he has carved a permanent niche for himself in all great literary traditions. The permanent contemporaneity of Shakespeare’s work has been hinted at more than once by Shakespeare himself. In Julius Caesar he writes: How many ages
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William Shakespeare‚ one of the most influential writers of 17th century‚ was very well known for his work in theatre and as a poet. In his sonnets‚ Shakespeare uses imagery and objects of nature as metaphor in describing beauty through contrast and aging. Sonnets were the pop songs of Shakespeare’s era‚ a very fashionable poetic; all gentlemen were required to learn them as a discipline and a sign of one’s education. A good sonnet alluded to a good education‚ conveying one’s upbringing as one
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| | | | Page Back | | | Sonnets Index | William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? | | | | | | | Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime
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the delicate action of weeping‚ rather than the unattractive actions: sobbing and crying. This adds to her delicacy and therefore overall femininity. Cinderella is portrayed in a feeble light‚ yet her step sisters are characterised as ‘dissatisfied shrew[s]’. Rather than the humble
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key concepts identity politics/the politics of identity The utopian vision of ‘sisterhood’ – the collecting together of all women under the same political banner – was in part responsible for the burgeoning interest in feminism and the emergent Women’s Liberation Movement. It was inevitably going to come under fire once more women who weren’t white‚ middle class‚ heterosexual and university-educated became involved‚ and the differences between women came to be seen as of equal importance
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The Merchant of Venice: A Tragicomedy Patricia Green INTRODUCTION Shakespeare in the High School Classroom The Merchant of Venice‚ by William Shakespeare‚ does not fit the conventional definitions of a tragedy or a comedy. It is categorized as a comedy‚ although one of the two distinct plotlines is a tragedy. This play is multi-faceted and is really a combination of two plays in one; therefore it lends itself well as a source for teaching different lessons in the high school classroom. This curriculum
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Murder in the name of Love Comparisons and Contrasts of Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess Robert Browning was an author of two very eerie and dramatic monologues known as‚ Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess. Although both poems have very related themes‚ they still contrast in ways that are too apparent to go unnoticed. You clearly recognize the similarities of both writings in the way that oddly enough‚ both point of views come from insecure men and they both irrationally kill the women they
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It was messy‚ tiring work. Michelangelo wrote the following pome vividly describing his daily agony. My stomach is thrust toward my chin‚ My beard curls up‚ toward the sky‚ My head leans right over into my back‚ my chest is like that of an old shrew‚ The brush endlessly dripping onto my face‚ Has coated it with a multi-colored paving. Though as the paint dribbled into his eyes and down his face Michelangelo never lost sight of his inspiring design. The ceiling contains nine paintings illustrating
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AThe Ideal of Social Grace The characters’ dense‚ colorful manner of speaking represents the ideal that Renaissance courtiers strove for in their social interactions. The play’s language is heavily laden with metaphor and ornamented by rhetoric. Benedick‚ Claudio‚ and Don Pedro all produce the kind of witty banter that courtiers used to attract attention and approval in noble households. Courtiers were expected to speak in highly contrived language but to make their clever performances seem effortless
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As the poem finishes the Duke commands the envoy to ‘Notice Neptune though‚ / Taming a Seahorse’ and revealed that it was cast by ‘Claus of Innsbruck’ and was specifically for him. This statue is a reflection of his attitude towards women; he regards them as objects instead of people and ‘taming’ them so they’re under his control. The name drop of ‘Claus of Innsbruck’ who ‘cast’ the statue in ‘bronze for me’ echoes the fact that he’s
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