IS SHAKESPEARE STILL RELEVANT TODAY? NAME: Danielle LLoyd In secondary schools today we force our children to study Shakespeare from first form through to till fifth form and for those fortunate few also in sixth form. Ironically it is only the famous works that make it unto the syllabus. Plays like Merchant of Venice‚ King Lear‚ Henry the fifth‚ A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream and Macbeth are some of the few Shakespearean works we are exposed to‚ unless we go find others and read. Interestingly
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As You Like It - the Play As You Like It is considered by many to be one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies‚ and the heroine‚ Rosalind‚ is praised as one of his most inspiring characters and has more lines than any of Shakespeare’s female characters. Rosalind‚ the daughter of a banished duke falls in love with Orlando the disinherited son of one of the duke’s friends. When she is banished from the court by her usurping uncle‚ Duke Frederick ‚ Rosalind switches genders and as Ganymede travels with
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excusit- ignorance of the law does not excuse ubi stabilitas ibireligio-where ever stability is‚ there will be religion. jongleurs- medieval wandering entertainers who played instruments‚ sang and danced‚ juggled‚ and performed plays. brawlers- a noisy quarrel‚ squabble‚ or fight. passe- old fashioned; out-of-style esse- being; existence. sorties- attacks redolent- (adj.) fragrant‚ smelling strongly; tending to arouse memories or create an aura timorous- (adj)
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Taking the stage 400 years ago‚ when shakespeare was equipped with his magical wand and book of speels ‚ he casted a miraculous charm upon the world leaving people everywhere spell bounded. From the wonderful pleasures of love to the dark enchanting delights of ambition‚ his expert flawless wizardry enabled his socerous charms to stun and stagger the world even to this day. There is virtually no one who doesn’t know this quote "Fair is foul and foul is fair" To know the bard‚ is to be a somebody
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Shakespeare the Historian: Richard II and the War of the Roses Who was Richard II? Born: 1367 Reign: 1377 – 1399 (deposed) Death: 1400 (murdered) Historical Context surrounding Richard II Richard II was born in 1367‚ in Bordeaux which was then part of the English principality of Aquitaine. He was the second son of Edward‚ the Black prince‚ and his wife Joan of Kent. Edward was in line to the throne‚ after his father Edward III. The Black Prince was a distinguished military leader like
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Explore the ways Shakespeare and Dickens present human weakness in the texts you have studied. In the play Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare presents human weakness through the characters. At the start of the play Shakespeare presents the theme of love‚ which is shown through the character Romeo. Romeo is portrayed as a confused boy yearning for Rosaline’s love. His unrequited love clouds his mind and his judgment. However‚ later on‚ when Romeo becomes devoted to Juliet he becomes more of a man. This
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Shakespeare is widely regarded as the world’s greatest playwright‚ and there’s no real reason to dispute that. People are still seeing his plays 400 years after he wrote them‚ not because it’s “trendy” or “hip‚” but because they’re so good. His insight into the human spirit has never been equaled. This paper is a brief biography of Shakespeare and a discussion of the times in which he lived. Discussion His life: It’s somewhat difficult to find factual information about Shakespeare‚ because the
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kes In this assignment I am writing about the play called”kes”how Barry Hines the author of Kes brought his characters to life. He has gone into great detail and time to produce this play by trying to bring his characters to reality by their language ‚ the surroundings of that area and the clothing they wear. The area where this scene is set is in a rough‚ unpleasant place‚ Barnsley. Although Barnsley is local to us‚ it is an industrial working class area were poor unwealthy people go to work and
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Honors English Final Exam Essay 5-24-10 Stoppard vs. Shakespeare There are many ways love is presented thematically in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and Shakespeare in Love by Tom Stoppard. In a Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ love is off and on going between most of the characters which shows that love was difficult and not too strong between the characters‚ while in the play Shakespeare in Love‚ the love between Shakespeare and Viola seems to be pure and full of passion. The
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humans to make decisions and act on what they believe is to be true. This not only applies to humans‚ but authors use them in their books or plays to create different types of characters. In one of the greatest works by William Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ there are characters that make many different kinds of decisions that determine their role in the book. In the play‚ the protagonist Hamlet‚ after his father’s death‚ is angry about his mother’s hasty marriage to Claudius. He sees a ghost of his father one
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