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    Othello - Shakespeare

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    Shakespeare’s play “Othello” both challenges and reflects the values and beliefs of his Elizabethan context. To please his audience Shakespeare’s presentation of Venetian society replicates English society and 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

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    metaphysical shakespeare

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    SHAKESPEARE ’AND J- ^ ^ *::: the SUPERNATURAL BY # ^ MARGARET LUCY WITH ‚ ^ Ji ’^ A BmOOGRAPHY by ‚W. Jaggard itiroell Ittrnvmitg pilriatg BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME FROM THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF Hetirg 191. Sage 189X A‚ X.I Sqsi. fif/^Jiqoy‚ 7673-2 All books are subject to recall after Olin/Kroch Library two weeks. Cornell University Library The original of this book is

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    Marlowe and Shakespeare

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    Cited: Fisher‚ Will. "Handkerchiefs and Early Modern Ideologies of Gender." Shakespeare Studies 28.05829399 (2000): 199-207. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 6 Mar. 2012. Marlowe‚ Christopher. “Edward the Second”. Broadview Editions. Editor Mathew Martin. Claremont‚ Canada: Broadview Press‚ 2010. Print. Shakespeare‚ William. “Othello.” Pelican Shakespeare. Pelican Edition. Editor Russ McDonald. United States: Penguin Books‚ 2001. Print.

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    How does Shakespeare present good and bad in the play Macbeth? This essay will study and confer the vast number of contradicting ideas of good and bad evident in the play Macbeth. To commence this‚ the first scene to be examined is Act one‚ scene four lines 50-51. Here‚ Shakespeare intentionally presents Macbeth for his true colours. His objective of becoming king is exposed to the audience when Macbeth remarks ‘stars hide you fires‚ let not light see my black and deep desires’. This personification

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    William Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was born in the Hole Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire on April 23‚ 1564. He was the first son and third child of John Shakespeare‚ a leather tanner and a maker of gloves‚ and Mary Arden Shakespeare. William’s parents were married around 1558 and had a total of eight children‚ three of which died in childhood. William’s family had been living in the area of Warwickshire for many years and was respected. William’s father was at one

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    shakespeare

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    Write an essay of 1500-1700 words (50% of your coursework) following these guidelines: Identify one sonnet (or other poem) about which you wish to write. In addition‚ you must locate and discuss at least one piece of secondary criticism (and not more than two) which analyses this poem or passage. The section of your paper that summarises‚ or paraphrases‚ or quotes from the secondary source should not exceed 30% of your entire paper. Your main job is to develop a counter-argument: explain why this

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    Shakespeare Allusion

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    throughout it. One of the allusions used is in chapter five “When in doubt… it’s from Shakespeare”. The author alludes to past Shakespeare plays and how they’re depicted later on in the 1970s and around the 1980s. Some of his plays have transformed into completely different ideas from what they originally were and with some of them you couldn’t even tell they were one of his plays but you could tell that Shakespeare was in there. For one it mentions one of his works that Woody Allen reworked was “A

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    Women in Shakespeare

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    The women presented in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth have challenged the cultural values and assumptions of the role‚ rights and power of women during the Elizabethan period. The typical role of Elizabethan women of looking after the household and handling the kids is contradicted; the rights of Elizabethan women are defied; and the power of Elizabethan women in the household and the society is taken to new extents. The role‚ rights and power of Elizabethan women is confronted upon with the use of the

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    Tribute to Shakespeare

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    Tribute to Shakespeare Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet. He is generally considered the "greatest dramatist the world has ever known" and the "finest poet who has written in the English language" (World Book Encyclopedia). Shakespeare has also been the world’s most popular author. No other writer’s plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries. Many reasons can be given for Shakespeare’s appeal. But his fame basically is on his understanding of

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    Metadrama in Shakespeare

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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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