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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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    found in modern history as well as the middle ages. ( Etymonline 2009 ) . In The Lion and The Jewel we examine a theme of culture and conflict that arises, in Romeo and Juliet there is the theme of the forcefulness of love and in the sonnet Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day the theme of stability is found. During the Renaissance era, female characters were portrayed as having duties of being wives to their husbands and mothers to their children (Kelly & Joane 1984). Very few of them were…

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    William Shakespeare’s plays cover a variety of genres, each offering timeless perspectives that cause them to be performed generation after generation. Only one of these plays is often refused to be performed, on account of its potential antisemitism. Few of Shakespeare’s characters have the infamy of Shylock from the play The Merchant of Venice. Shylock is a Jewish character written as a stereotype: a secretive Jewish merchant running illegal money lending schemes in the city of Venice. Shylock…

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    Good morning, I would like to thank you for this amazing opportunity to audition for the grin and tonic theatre company William Shakespeare was an English poet playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. As England’s national poet his works, consist of approximately 37 plays 154 sonnets and two long narrative poems. His plays have been translated into a major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright, his plays are…

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    How language evolves through Pop Culture Introduction Shakespeare had immensly influenced the English language in the seventeenth century with his sonnets and plays but today it is Pop Culture that has a profound impact. As society evolves so does language. Language is changing as the way people use it changes and there is a reason we do not talk in Shakespearian English anymore. New words and phrases are constantly being coined while others are dying out. Changes in language have become so…

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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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    plays and drama were extremely popular. Plays were at once available to an audience of all social classes simultaneously and provided a public platform for the spread of commentary on aspects of social, political and religious life in Elizabethan England. Playwrights would frequently use the stage to comment upon the world around them. Without a doubt, the most well-known playwright of the period is William Shakespeare, whose plays were popular in their day and are still popular with scholars…

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    Shakespeare is known for his plethora of ingenious plays, however some of his best characters are the women in his plays. They are not carbon copies of each other and they have their own faults and virtues. The women in his plays can be either very typical women of the time or like Desdemona and Cordelia, be very forward-thinking women. Critics cannot look at these two characters and not have something to say about how these women act or how they do not act. These two are some of this author’s…

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    The Search for Meaning in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Introduction Samuel Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot in French in 1949 and then translated it into English in 1954. Waiting for Godot is the most popular play in every corner of the world. Therefore, this play has been performed as a drama of the absurd with astonishing success in Europe, America and the rest of the world in post second world war era. Waiting for Godot delineates the events of two consecutive days in the life of…

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    Sonnet 116 Symbolism

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    “William Shakespeare’s “Henry VI Part II” was his first play, he ever performed” (Mabillard " 2000). A man who wasn’t well known at his time began to become more distinguished as time went on. Long after the death of Shakespeare, many people claimed that he was one of the best British poets and playwrights of all time. The lacking documents and his mysterious past makes him all the more interesting. Even though we don't know much of Shakespeare, his works were contained with symbolism and…

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