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    Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a play about love, or more specifically, the forcefulness of love in the lives of both Romeo and Juliet. Despite the fast and rushed nature of their relationship, the romantic connection and bond between them dominated every other aspect of their individual and collective lives. At first sight, the reciprocated intense passion they shared nurtured into a strong, overpowering, and even violent force that superseded all other emotions and values. As the play…

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    William Shakespeare published “Romeo and Juliet” in 1597, a play of two lovers from rival houses who overcome hate to find love, only to have fate guide them to their deaths. Shakespeare bestowed upon the world a play with lively characters, and Juliet of the Capulets is a complex character who defies the typical stereotype of women during the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare developed Juliet to be an individual who is beautiful, intelligent, defiant, and yet masculine. By doing so, Shakespeare…

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    In this research Paper, we will try to light on the theme of frustration honour and death in the plays of Federico Garcia Lorca who is the most eminent painter, singer of Andalusia Folklore and a poet of gipsy ballads. He was the master of Puppet theatre. His surrealistic style makes him the greatest dramatist among other contemporaries dramatist. It was his great writing for the Spanish Literature that he wrote rural trilogy as Blood wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba. Following…

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    Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare began and ended with death, but the story continues to live on. Romeo and Juliet was written in 1500’s and showed how relationships worked back then and how Shakespeare saw relationships. It is important to use lenses because, “The different lenses also allow critics to focus on particular aspects of a work they consider important.” (McGinn research, via Tyson, Richart). The relationship lense is looking at the different types of relationships and see how they…

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    Romeo and Juliet is one of the most well known play from all of william shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was written in the 1595 and now their has been many things that the movies have in common and they are also very different. One big difference would be how the characters are portrayed in each of the movies since shakespeare never included stage directions and shakespeare also did not give the actors the whole script but only some of the actors lines so that they could make the play more…

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    King Henry IV, a play written by Shakespeare in the early fifteenth century in England. William Shakespeare was a famous for his literature. He excelled in plays and wrote about different genres. William Shakespeare is an author, English playwright and actor. Shakespeare did like to write about history in his playsForthe entertainment. Shakespeare was not attempting to provide a historically accurate picture of the past, but he was writing for the entertainment of his theater audience.…

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    Romeo + Juliet is a movie about two star-crossed lovers who journey with a relationship between the toils of two families feud, adapted from Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and produced into a film by Baz Luhrmann. The movie details the lives of Romeo and Juliet, who are in love, though caught in the confusion of their families feud. The lovers conceal their relationship, but that doesn’t keep either families from concealing their ‘swords’. Several die in the conquest of…

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    Chekhov's Monodrama

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    Introduction This paper is an attempt in tracing the change in Chekhov's art of characterization from 1886 to 1902 through his farce- vaudeville monodrama in one act, On the Injurious Effects of Tobacco. Chekhov wrote the first version of the play in 1886 and revised it multiple ties in the subsequent years. The final version of the monodrama is the most popular and well-known of all the published versions. The paper will also take into account the other nine one- act plays Chekhov wrote in…

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    William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy love story of two teenagers amid the traditional feud of the Capulet and the Montague families. The play ends with the untimely demise of Romeo and Juliet and leaves the audience in doubt about the actual cause of their deaths. Throughout the play we see characters that directly and indirectly oppose Romeo and Juliet’s love. On the surface we see how a series of immature decisions made by Romeo and Juliet lead them to kill themselves,…

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    Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables has accomplished what many novels seek to accomplish but fail to do it; it has become a timeless classic. Les Miserables has the same impactful message that applies still to this day. Today’s masses have seen an undiluted version of Les Miserables despite the play adaptations, over a hundred translations and a major movie adaptation. This novel presents the daily struggles of the lower class of french society during the Napoleonic Age through a different lens.…

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