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It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt (A discussion on the similarities and differences in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing) When renting movies nowadays, the movies are often organized according to their genres. There are thrillers, comedies, rom coms, action/adventure, horror, etc. The list goes on for ages. Before there were movies, there were plays. Shakespeare is the most famous playwright in history. He often wrote plays in three genres. Comedies, tragedies, and…

Shakespearean Beauty William Shakespeare has written 154 sonnets which have been carefully organized and categorized by people over time; not only did these people sequence his sonnets, numbering each in the order they think he wrote them, they also came to the conclusion that he wrote the first 126 for a young man and the latter 28 for a woman. Shakespeare includes a variety of themes that are consistent throughout the entire series, yet he approaches the themes differently, focusing on…

The play, The Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Williams, the main characters in this play were Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, and Tom Wingfield. The play was about a memory of Tom. Tom’s father left him and his family years ago, and he had to work in a shore warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and his sister, Laura. Unlike the other main characters, Tom stood out and he should be considered as the main character because he was the narrator and the play seemed to revolve around him.…

William Shakespeare (usually referred to as just “Shakespeare”) is undoubtedly the most famous playwright in history. His works are usually required reading in high schools, and college english classes as well. Almost everyone recognizes his name when it’s mentioned and knows at least one quote from one of his works. He is known worldwide for his plays especially, which are so special because of his ability to convey the inner workings of the human mind and emotion. His writings have lasted for…

With as much as literature and entertainment have evolved in the past 400 years since the honored genius William Shakespeare popularized theatre and genres such as the Tragedy and Comedy, people still remember his work by reading and seeing it performed from time to time. People are even shown techniques he pioneered on his own such as words he invented and comic relief. In the play Macbeth, it has been debated for years about the value of the Porter’s scene and whether or not it is comic relief…

Audrey Niffenegger's novel "Time Traveller's Wife" is a story about two protagonists, Henry and Clare. When Henry meets Clare, he is twenty-eight and she is twenty. Henry has never met Clare before, Clare has known Henry since she was six. Impossible but true, Henry finds himself periodically displaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past, and future. Henry and Clare's attempt to live normal lives are threatened by a force they can neither prevent, nor control,…

Sir George Calvert was also known as the first Baron of Baltimore. He was born in Yorkshire, England in 1580 to parents, Leonard and Alice Calvert. (“Biography) Calvert was raised with Protestant beliefs. (“Land”) When he was Fourteen years old, he attended Trinity College in Oxford, England and graduated in 1597. (“Baltimore”) Calvert learned to speak three different languages (“Maryland”) He could also write in Latin. While traveling of the continent, he met Sir Robert Cecil.…

changed the the way english people live today. Shakespeare has made many accomplishments and succeeded throughout his life. William Shakespeare is known by many. This a little bit about his lifetime. He was born in a small town of Stratford Upon-Avon on April 23,1564. He went to school and learned poetry, history, Greek and Latin. At the age of 18, Shakespeare was required to marry a woman named Anne Hathaway. She was twenty six years old when she found out that she was 3 months…

A small town boy turned worldwide entrepreneur. Bounced back from a fire that destroyed three mills. Being able to bounce back from any number of obstacles but still protect the rights of other people. When it comes to picking one person of the decade, most times it’s a close call between candidates, but this year our man outshone the others without even trying. On December 3, 1842, in Warner, New Hampshire, Charles Alfred Pillsbury was born to George Alfred Pillsbury and Margaret Pillsbury.…

middle of the nineteenth century the theory of the adulation of Shakespeare as the greatest writer of all time had become widespread. The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him. The adherents of this theory believe that Shakespeare of Stratford was a front to shield the identity of the real author or authors, who for some reason did not want or could not accept public credit.…