English Discussion on Shakespeare „What point is there in studying a dramatist who lived 400 years ago?” Shakespeare is a British dramatist‚ lyric poet and actor who lived from 1564-1616. Today it’s the 6th of september 2010. Shakespeare died almost 400 years ago. So why should people still keep busy with someone who lived such a long time ago? Why is Shakespeare still studied today? Many pupils would answer: Because teachers love to bore us. How could someone who lived 400 years ago write about
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Shakespeare life & works 1.William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. His father was a glover by trade‚ but he also experimented with farming. The family owned a farm called the Asbies‚ which Mary Arden-Shakespeare had brought to the marriage. Shakespeare was most likely educated at the Stratford free grammar school. He likely apprenticed at the age of thirteen when the family’s financial situation was going downhill. He married Anne Hathaway in November of 1582
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William Shakespeare was an English poet who is considered to be the greatest dramatist of all time. During the 1500s and early 1600s in the United Kingdom‚ Shakespeare wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets. However‚ for nearly two centuries people have been questioning the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. Oddly enough‚ the first time anyone suggested Shakespeare might not be the author of his work was a joke. In 1848‚ a Lutheran scholar named Samuel Schmucker compared academic efforts to cast doubt upon
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William Shakespeare My Misstress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun The Surprise Reversal in the Rhyming Couplet. "And yet‚ by heaven‚ I think my love as rare As and she belied with false compare." In lines thirteen and fourteen‚ the poet explains how down to earth she is and how the speaker’s love is rare. The change in tone tells us that the poet in the first eight lines are not discontentment but truth. Shakespeare ends the sonnet by proclaiming his love for his mistress despite her lack of beauty
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become influential. In the Renaissance era‚ the wealthy had a vast amount of power over the poor‚ similar to men’s superiority to women; the same concept is still in society today‚ even if we wouldn’t admit to it. It is evident in many works by Shakespeare that power and privilege go hand in hand; even so‚ powerful‚ privileged women were not to be made superior or even equivalent to their weaker male
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Virginia Woolf initiations this Essay: What if Shakespeare Had Had a Sister? By being very dismayed about not being able to acquire an explanation on why men are richer than women or why women are poorer than men. She wants to make sure that she gets facts and not opinion. Thus she decided to visit the time of Elizabeth and discover why women did not write‚ but men were writing non-stop and achieving literary excellence. Shakespeare comes up and Woolf compares his writings to “enchanted spider webs
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Katrina Chen Professor Sun Shakespeare Paper One 2 May 2013 Malvolio‚ the Party Pooper in Twelfth Night In Shakespeare’s comedy‚ Twelfth Night‚ we can see the romance among several couples. For instance‚ Viola with Orsino‚ Olivia with Sebastian and Maria with Sir Toby Belch‚ they are all ended up with a joyful relationship with each other. It is a convention that endings of the comedies are always combined with happy elements. Even if not falling in love with anyone else‚ the clown
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The conspiracy surrounding William Shakespeare is too outrageous to be ignored. Shakespeare was a man that many people didn’t really actually know unless they were in a play. why‚ It is a widely spread theory that ever since the death of Shakespeare in 1616‚ his authenticity‚ for the most part‚ has been questioned by great scholars‚ professors‚ and educators. Shakespeare was raised in a household at Stratford-Upon-Avon where writing was not a common thing. the Shakespeare family would sign official
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Shakespeare is a nation wide known author‚ his work includes‚ “Hamlet”‚ “MacBeth”‚ “King Lear”‚ and plenty more that rose Shakespeare to mass fame from scholars to the average student. Most readers know little about Shakespeare’s personal life. Other than his works‚ which proves his existence‚ numerous scholars question whether or not the great poet/author truly existed. Shakespeare wasn’t born into wealth or royalty nor did he marry into it. Born to John Shakespeare a glove maker and a merchant
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Extended Learning Homework- 30 Facts About Shakespeare 1. Shakespeare was born on April 23 1564 and died April 23 1616 aged 52. He was born and also died on the 23 April. 2. Shakespeare was baptised on April 26 1564 in Stratford upon Avon just three days before the Stratford Parish register recorded an outbreak of the plague. 3. On 30th November 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Whateley. Anne Whateley could be a scribal error for Anne Hathaway. She was 3 months pregnant at the time. 4. Shakespeare’s
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