The Shrew's Taming and 10 Things I Hate About You were considered in this language study to get a better understanding of how composers can reflect the time through two classic and modern compositions with the same theme. The tale of The Shrew's Taming brings up noteworthy issues in both the great Shakespearean content and the contemporary apportionment of 10...
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Is Shakespeare relevant? The question so many people, past present, and future, have questioned timelessly over again. There’s no doubt that Shakespeare has been such a controversial topic, especially in the developing society of the 21st century. William Shakespeare has been taught in the Australian curriculum for as long as the formal education system has existed. And yet only in...
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Love is said to be one of the most complex emotions for which people tend to have a wide range of explanations. Descriptions of love can be seen as page after page of devotion or merely a sentence of appreciation. William Shakespeare’s poem ‘Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun’ is a poem about a man’s mistress...
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William Shakespeare, renowned for his profound understanding of human nature and his mastery of the English language, has left an indelible mark on literature with his timeless plays. While Shakespeare is not typically associated with King Arthur in the same way as medieval chroniclers or modern-day authors, traces of the legendary king can be found within his works, albeit in...
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In his works, the famous William Shakespeare made it a habit to raise numerous important topics. And his play 'King Lear' was no exception. In it, next to such themes as suffering, appearance versus reality, family relationships, the value of nothingness, and how much 'nothing' can represent is of great importance. In the first scene, Lear banishes Cordelia, which as...
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In ‘King Lear’, Shakespeare’s playwright offers a vivid yet negative portrayal of Lear himself. The audience confronts a hero king whose hamartia brings about not only his downfall but also the destruction of his surroundings and more devastatingly upon innocent people. Lear is portrayed as an arrogant king with an innate sense of superiority, great wrath, and error of judgment....
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The internet defines love as an intense feeling of deep affection. So why does Romeo fall for Juliet after being let down by Rosaline? Romeo knows that love can be tragic, but it makes him happy. Romeo and Juliet are so happy together, Juliet would rather die than not be with Romeo. Readers also learn from the friar that love...
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Violence is an important concept in William Shakespeare's play 'Romeo and Juliet' as the two families act out their hate by adopting brutal means. Tensions, violence, brawls, deaths, and clashes not only drive the plot of the play but also give the reader an idea of how normalized violence, death, and honor killings were at that time. This is very...
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The Tempest a Shakespeare’s Globe theatre production in 2013 directed by Jeremy Herrin who is a renowned and well-respected director, he first made his Shakespeare debut in 2011 by directing Eve Best in “Much Ado About Nothing”. The Tempests is set on an un-named Mediterranean island in Renaissance Europe. His ship in the play is wrecked near a Mediterranean island....
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When we think of A “new” Dilemma we think of a situation in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones. The main conflict in the play is between Prospero and his brother, Antonio, who overthrew Prospero as Duke of Milan and ordered him and his daughter to be set adrift. Other conflicts...
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William Shakespeare’s belief in humanism was a contradiction to commonly belied ideals of infinite spirit and destiny in the 1600s. Making Romeo and Juliet tragedy a mask for fate versus free will. During the Elizabethan era, one’s destiny or fate was viewed by most as predetermined. Individuals of the time believed in astrology, the philosophy that one's life was moderately...
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The textual conversation between both texts shares a relationship between themes, ideas, intertextuality, and context. Themes such as justice, guilt, and revenge in order to be more understandable for the audience today. Through the use of resonances and dissonances, it allows the readers to make connections between characters, plots, and particular scenes in both Hag-seed and The Tempest based on...
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Production History On November 1st, 1611, at the Banqueting House in Whitehall Palace, Shakespeare's The Tempest was performed for the first time in front of James I and the Royal Court. Only two known productions of the play took place during Shakespeare's lifetime. The second performance took place two years later, as part of the festivities surrounding Princess Elizabeth's marriage...
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The Tempest is shaped by the allusions of Christian Humanism more specifically Montaigne’s views on ethics and empathy. In a metaphysical reading of The Tempest, Shakespeare offers a nuanced portrayal of the humanist elements that shape individuals, the soul. Atwood acknowledges the power of forgiveness electing to reimagine this trope through the foil characterization of ‘ghost’ Miranda in Hag-seed with...
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Language within The Tempest is important in understanding the nuances of its imperfect characters, as well as the complexity of the colonial and ethical narratives within the text. Caliban’s language provides an alternative narrative to that of Prospero and that of the colonizer, as well as proving his own character to be layered rather than simply the black-and-white rhetoric of...
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In our generation, various different people see Shakespeare as either relevant or irrelevant. If I’m going, to be honest, I dread Shakespeare, none of the work made sense to me particularly the way that they spoke. I would sit in class looking at the work my teacher has assigned in confusion wondering how much longer I would have had to...
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Arguably the greatest literary work written in English, William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, centers around the protagonist’s angst and indecision on avenging his father’s murder. A vital component of what makes this outstanding literary piece so famous is that it focuses on Hamlet’s personal struggles, rather than the conflicts of other individuals. Due to this close connection, Shakespeare was able to...
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Shakespeare’s Othello presents to its audience the tragic story of a doomed interracial marriage in which Othello, the titular ‘Moor of Venice’ becomes entangled in the schemings of his malevolent ensign Iago, who convinces him of his wife Desdemona’s infidelity. By the end, Othello has murdered Desdemona and taken his own life out of grief and guilt. That Othello succumbs...
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Antony and Cleopatra’s love for one another is the prominent theme throughout the play, and although both characters profess to an incomparable “peerless” love, they encourage doubt in the audience by acting in a manner that appears to contradict this. This is demonstrated by Cleopatra’s bullying, manipulative manner and also with the ease with which Antony dismisses their relationship in...
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There is still reluctance among many secondary school students to accept Shakespeare as an author who speaks to them and their problems. This misguides them into thinking and focusing on the fact that Shakespeare's language is “too difficult”. His work shows various ideologies and perspectives that surround a variety of societal and internal concepts. So in that case, following up...
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In many ways, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure are examples of his 'problem plays' that are concerned with self-division and lack of self-knowledge. The former play deals with the duality of the characters and it is in the knowledge or lack of knowledge in this duality between the characters which makes it a problem play. Self-division is...
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An individual’s self-perception varies based on what they believe is an illusion and what they believe is reality. In today’s society, this same idea is present when people interact with one another, as they may retain a different perception of what others think of them compared to what the blunt truth is. As a matter of fact, humans possess the...
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In this play Coriolanus by Shakespeare, Coriolanus' expulsion is the peak of a sequence of incidents in which a few powers have a role, all impelling him to his absolute destruction. As is normal in Shakespearean Tragedy, the legend, at the crest of his accomplishments, falls, because of a lethal blemish in his character. Despite the fact that Coriolanus is...
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Vengeance, chaos, uncertain honor and untimely death-whether describing the fall from grace of a noble king, impassioned General, or valiant warrior, each arises in the historically based tragedies of William Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Shakespeare’s account of the societal and self destruction of a Roman warrior paragon, proves no exception, depicting the demise that results from any character trait excess, even honor....
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Cleopatra, “Egypt’s Queen,” is arguably Shakespeare’s most resilient and enchanting female protagonist. She is personified as the embodiment of her country, ‘the soul of Egypt’, and defies the reductive Jacobean “most monster-like” perspective of women. The Renaissance stereotype of the subordinate and inferior female is in total juxtaposition to the possessive and shrewd characteristics that Cleopatra possesses, as she is...
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A problem play is a play in which the playwright portrays the social, political and economic problems of the society he lives in. The problem play is a development form of the ‘drama of ideas' (Drama of ideas is a type of discussion play in which the most acute problems of social and personal morality is revealed). It is tragic...
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The world of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida does not distinguish decidedly between the Greeks and the Trojans. Though the Greek camp is a makeshift assembly of tents pitched on the shores of Troy, and the Trojan society is the courtly palace of Priam and his sons, both societies value the same ideas and objects: honor in men, and beauty and...
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Despite the adaptation of a text to film benefiting from the opportunities and abilities bestowed to a director through the visual aspect of the medium, narrative complexity and depth of literary themes almost inevitably suffer a condensation. Ralph Fiennes’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is not immune to this trend, with temporal constraints forcing Fiennes to focus upon thematic elements...
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AP English Literature and Composition Name: __Carmen Cerrito____________ Major Works Data Sheet Title: ___Henry V__________________________ Author: __William Shakespeare_________________________ Date of Publication: __1600_______________ Genre: __Historical__________________________ Biographical information about the author: (Provide information that gives insight into the author’s historical experiences.) William Shakespeare was born roughly around April 23rd, 1564, and he later became a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor. He...
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Power can affect individuals very differently. This includes those who are in power, and those who are being led. Several of Shakespeare’s plays tell the story of various kings and how they have ruled England. Richard II, Richard III, Henry IV, and Henry V have all had different experiences when it came to ruling. Even though they were all leaders,...
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