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William Shakespeare
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. In a sense, the act of rhyming is a use of assonance. But assonance is usually cited when vowel sounds are repeated in a line. For example, in the...
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William Shakespeare
Shakespeare drew upon a number of sources for the play. In both theme and structure, Romeo and Juliet has certain similarities with the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe in Ovid's Metamorphoses. In this...
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William Shakespeare
As with most speculation about William Shakespeare, the idea that his writing springs from a specific philosophy cannot be determined for certain. However, there is a body of evidence that...
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William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth, is based on the account of Macbeth's life and reign in Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, published in 1577. By the time this came to...
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William Shakespeare
James Burbage was an important figure in the Elizabethan drama scene and is closely associated with William Shakespeare. He was an actor, but his most lasting legacy is that he financed and...
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William Shakespeare
This question is asking you to examine three different villains and make a decision as to which character you think is the most villainous. Feel free to take your pick. There isn't a definitively...
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William Shakespeare
The common theme of Animal Farm, Julius Caesar, and Antigone is that of revolution or rebellion going wrong. Antigone is perhaps slightly different from the other two in that Antigone does not seek...
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William Shakespeare
Romeo is an impulsive and changeable adolescent who is in love with love. If the play wasn't so filled with tragic events, we could almost laugh at Romeo over how quickly he moves from Rosaline to...
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William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream certainly has more comedic elements; there is little humor in Romeo and Juliet. The common themes in the two Shakespeare plays include love (at first sight), misplaced...
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William Shakespeare
Oracy is a term that represents a concept first proposed in the mid-1960s by Andrew M. Wilkinson, a researcher and educator at the University of Birmingham in England. Defined simply, oracy is...
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William Shakespeare
Certainly, Iago, from Othello, must top the list of Shakepeare's villains. He is a treacherous, malicious, underhanded liar who cares about nobody but himself and will stop at nothing to destroy...
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William Shakespeare
I don't know that you can create a thesis that captures a single truth about women as they are portrayed in Shakespeare's plays. While the plays are generally male dominated, the women sometimes...
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William Shakespeare
As an early sonnet, Sonnet 17 fits with the "Fair Youth" sonnets that implore the young man to procreate. A recurring theme in these involves the poem's ability to preserve the beauty and memory of...
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William Shakespeare
Sleep is used as a metaphor for death throughout Macbeth. For instance, in act 2, scene 2, Macbeth refers to it as the "death of each day's life." The establishment of such an intimate association...
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William Shakespeare
Two of William Shakespeare’s distinguishing characteristics as a playwright are the wide range of female roles he employed in his works and the complexity of relationships between men and women in...
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William Shakespeare
There's a lot to examine regarding relations between the genders in Shakespeare plays. Here's a brief overview of a few examples that you could choose to analyze further. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth...
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William Shakespeare
In As You Like It, Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has also overthrown her father. Rosalind is smart and knows it is dangerous for a young woman to travel in the world. She decides to...
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William Shakespeare
The structure of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 11, "As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st" is comprised both of repeated patterns of sound and of rhetorical patterns giving shape to the...
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William Shakespeare
This is a huge question, so I can only give you a brief overview. Maybe you can break this up and ask more specific questions about specific plays if you need more information. A Midsummer's Night...
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William Shakespeare
A "battle of the sexes" implies a conflict between a man and a women, or men and women, regarding gender roles in a given environment or circumstance, or a more generalized battle for supremacy...
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William Shakespeare
Hamnet and his twin sister Judith were born to William Shakespeare and his wife Anne (Hathaway) in late January or early February, 1585. They were baptized in Holy Trinity Church in...
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William Shakespeare
As William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing begins, a messenger arrives with a letter for Leonato, the governor of Messina, informing Leonato that Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon, has been...
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William Shakespeare
During the Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, when Shakespeare lived, people were married once, and they were married for life. An annulment of the marriage or a "divorce from bed and board"...
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William Shakespeare
Even though there was a woman on the throne of England at the time that Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream and Taming of the Shrew, England was nevertheless a male-dominated country. This...
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William Shakespeare
At various points in As You Like It, Rosalind and Orlando get together, are separated, reunite but in changed circumstances or personas, and ultimately are united in a happy ending suitable to a...
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William Shakespeare
In order to discuss whether Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73" and "Sonnet 138" are "anti Petrarchan," as your question suggests, we need to understand the commonly-used elements of a typical Petrarchan...
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William Shakespeare
Willam Shakespeare was an English poet and dramatist who lived between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. He is generally regarded as the greatest playwright who ever lived. His...
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William Shakespeare
In Macbeth, the supernatural elements often serve as a catalyst for human action and are usually (though not always) without a doubt present in the scene rather than products of a character's...
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William Shakespeare
Many of Shakespeare's comedies fall into the tradition of what a modern audience would call "romantic comedy," stories in which two characters meet and then ultimately get together by the end. In...
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William Shakespeare
Very funny! I am not really sure what the point of it was though. I don't think Shakespeare would have written something like that. It's more like someone just "translated" modern speech into...
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William Shakespeare
There is a search engine that seems reliable at this URL:http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/test.htmlRemember to enclose phrases in quotation marks if you want to find the exact phrase...
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William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s emerging themes in act 4 of Othello are becoming clearer. One theme he has woven throughout this work is that people are not who they seem to be. Iago is the obvious example, as he...
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William Shakespeare
Although Don Quixote (1605) is often regarded as the first novel in European literature, there are earlier prose fictions, such as John Lyly's Euphues (1578) and Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia (1581)....
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William Shakespeare
Shakespeare wrote sonnets because they were a respected poetic form in his time period. A person who wanted to be taken seriously as a literary figure would write sonnets or other forms of poetry....
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William Shakespeare
Hermia is one of Shakespeare's strongest and most assertive female characters. She's feisty, headstrong, defiant of male authority, and firmly opposed to what she perceives as the oppressive...
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William Shakespeare
A core part of the comedy of Twelfth Night consists of Viola's cross-dressing as Cesario and the social dynamics it ignites. We see her fall in love with Orsino and see Orsino's love, Olivia, fall...
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William Shakespeare
One of the major differences in the flaws of the two characters is that Hamlet is one who appears to be able to think clearly and see the problems around him and the falseness of Claudius, etc.,...
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William Shakespeare
I think that both used nature as a critical part of their poetry. Shakespeare seemed to use nature as a metaphor, a way to articulate artistic themes or ideas. For example, in discussing love...
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William Shakespeare
In the final scene of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Paris goes to Juliet's tomb to pay his respects to the young woman to whom he was betrothed and to whom he was to have been married earlier...
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William Shakespeare
Theatre was important to the Elizabethans for several reasons. One reason was self expression. The common people during this time period were often less educated and might even be illiterate....
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William Shakespeare
In Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare takes a classic mythological tale and uses it to comment on the nature of love. The original story of Venus and Adonis, like many mythological tragedies, is filled...
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William Shakespeare
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare belonged to and had partial ownership of an acting company called The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, which had been named in honor of its patron,...
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William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 20” follows a very standard rhyme scheme for the sonnets. The poem is divided into four parts, three of them quatrains followed by a two-line refrain at the end of the poem....
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William Shakespeare
I would start by saying that we don't know much about Shakespeare, but we do know some things (or at least have come to accept them). Most sources say he was born at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564...
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William Shakespeare
Enotes has quite an extensive library pertaining to Shakespeare. Start at the link below to read a summary and a list of characters as a means of introduction, and go from there to find literary...
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William Shakespeare
How else would you know what the actor/actress' character was thinking? If soliloquies were not included in the play, there would be no way to allow the character to reveal his/her innermost...
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William Shakespeare
To me William Shakespeare is synonymous with greatness for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was his ability to take ordinary situations and make them intensely comical and/or...
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William Shakespeare
The late sixteenth-century playwrights, dubbed by nineteenth-century writer George Saintsbury as the university wits, included such figures as Marlow, Nashe, Lodge, and Lyly and others who tended...
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare became famous in the same way that many writers today have become famous. He went to London and began selling, producing, and performing in plays. His style of writing was...
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William Shakespeare
According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, a tempest can be defined as "a violent storm." Its alternate definition is "tumult, uproar." In the classic play The Tempest by William...
