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    <title>William Shakespeare Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shakespeare was the greatest playwright that ever lived. He wrote...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shakespeare was the greatest playwright that ever lived. He wrote comedies and tragedies; and the comedies are more tragic than the dramatic plays. As You Like It is a comedy while Hamlet is a tragedy.
Ben Jonson said of Shakespeare 'he was not for an age but for all time,'  Shakespeare was Elizabethan and one characteristic of this is his preference for "conceits". In addition he had a habit of never inventing the whole story.
Shakespeare is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:30:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shakespeare's work and its distinctive features.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shakespeare's work and its distinctive features.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:09:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Published in 1609, the first folio of the sonnets was published during...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Published in 1609, the first folio of the sonnets was published during his lifetime, around the time of his retirement from the theatre.  They pre-date the publication of his plays (1623), which were published seven years after his death.  Ironically, many of the poems are about the immortality of art, and yet Shakespeare seems to have written them without much of a push to get them published.  The monarchs Elizabeth I and James I...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 10:24:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How are William Shakespeare's sonnets representative of the social...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How are William Shakespeare's sonnets representative of the social change in England at the time?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 10:01:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Probably one of the most famous scenes in all of literature is the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Probably one of the most famous scenes in all of literature is the graveyard scene in Hamlet. Hamlet has just returned to Elsinore, where he will soon die. He is at the graveyard with his best friend, Horatio. Although he doesn't know it yet, his girlfriend Ophelia is about to be buried there this very day.
Hamlet sees two grave diggers, referred to as Clown One and Clown Two. He talks to them about the work that they do as grave diggers and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:42:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I have a drama class and i need an easy 5 line shakspear quote and i...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have a drama class and i need an easy 5 line shakspear quote and i need a prop to go with it any body have some ideas?
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        <pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:08:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[William Shakespeare: The Fruad of Avon]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think that shakespeare entertains his audiance really well. he puts...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think that shakespeare entertains his audiance really well. he puts in lots of violence like at the start of romeo and jeliet both families are fighting and theat gets the audiance going because the groundling who wantch the plays have a lot of violence in there life's.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:26:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Umm i don't know :/]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/q-and-a/where-did-shakespere-get-his-ideas-from-23069</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Umm i don't know :/]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:07:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[One idea would be to print off an image/plan of the Globe Theater from...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/q-and-a/how-do-make-globe-theater-using-pipe-cleaners-118359</link>
        <description><![CDATA[One idea would be to print off an image/plan of the Globe Theater from the internet and then take it to an arts and crafts store- or even a gaming store like the ones that stock Warhammer - they stock a whole host of different crafting materials. It depends on how professional you want it to look and how much you want to spend. It might be a good compromise to spend out a little on the actual structure (such as shapeable craft foam) and use...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:44:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do I make Shakespeare's Globe Theater using pipe cleaners? Or other...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/q-and-a/how-do-make-globe-theater-using-pipe-cleaners-118359</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How do I make Shakespeare's Globe Theater using pipe cleaners? Or other house hold items? for a school project!!!!!!!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:56:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Definitely Falstaff.
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        <link>http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/group/discuss/who-shakespeares-greatest-hero-his-works-why-64063#7</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Definitely Falstaff.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:49:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Just one, Anne Hathaway. The two were married in 1582 and had three...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Just one, Anne Hathaway. The two were married in 1582 and had three children.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:21:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe the circumstances that lead to Hamlet's death and the fall of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Describe the circumstances that lead to Hamlet's death and the fall of Denmark exploring hubris and hamarita and how they apply to Hamlet.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:09:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[William Shakespeare only had one wife.  Her name was Anne Hathaway.
We...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[William Shakespeare only had one wife.  Her name was Anne Hathaway.
We know very little about Shakespeare's personal life, but we do know a little bit about this aspect.
Anne Hathaway was eight years older than Shakespeare.  She was from a little village not far away from Stratford, where Shakespeare was from.
They married when she was 26 and he was 18.  She was pregnant at the time of their marriage and gave birth to a daughter 6 months...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:17:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How many wives did Shakespeare have?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How many wives did Shakespeare have?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:14:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I have to agree with mwestwood here--Shakespeare is timeless because he...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have to agree with mwestwood here--Shakespeare is timeless because he connected with "everyman."  His situations, themes, conflicts, and characters still ring true with modern audiences.  Successful movies (and other entertainment) now include elements of love, romance, drama, action, adventure, violence, scandal, sex, and comedy.  Even Shakespeare's lightest-of-heart plays include every one of those elements!
Shakespeare was (and is)...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:45:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[While Shakespeare created a variety of female personality types, his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While Shakespeare created a variety of female personality types, his leading women are most often independent, obstinate, and highly motivated.  Many critics cite Queen Elizabeth as a model for Shakespeare's female archetype. Perhaps the best example of a Shakespearean leading lady is Portia from The Merchant of Venice. She, like many other female Shakespearean characters dresses as a male at one point in the play and outsmarts the men.  She...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:59:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Write a detailed note on women characters in William Shakespeare's works.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Write a detailed note on women characters in William Shakespeare's works.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:54:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shakespeare used Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shakespeare used Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande as the starting point for his history plays. He leaned particularly heavily on Holinshed in writing Macbeth. In his Chronicles, Holinshed wrote about King Duffe's murder and told of Macbeth and "the weird sisters." In an appendix to the Oxford edition of Henry V, Gary Taylor notes that Shakespeare followed Holinshed so closely that [some of] the lines in Henry V can...]]></description>
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