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William Shakespeare, born in the 16th hundred, and raised in the provincial town of Stratford Upon Avon, playwriter of tragedies and historical dramas. In his lifespan he invented over 1700 words, wrote 154 sonnets, two narrative poems and 38 plays. He was crowned the greatest English dramatist by creating modern drama, which are still enjoyed across state boarders till this day, 400 years after his passing. Shakespeare is the perfect product of the Elizabethan Era, also called the “Golden age”,…

birth to and discusses. It was written in 1604 and1605 and was published in the First Folio in 1623. Gray Waller gives an in-depth view of the play. In the last twenty years has an adequate critical vocabulary been developed to appreciate, even to describe, All’s Well, and in recent years it has engendered both intense critical debate and diverse and often spectacularly successful productions…words used to describe its first production in 1741—an “unfortunate” comedy but what a 2004 reviewer…

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…

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…

Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago was said to have been invented in the West Indies through French settlers that came with large amounts of slaves in the late eighteenth century. Carnival was celebrated from Christmas day to Ash Wednesday in the older days where the elite white paraded in costumes to represent their European heritage. In the carnival industry there…

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman lawyer and a politician who became consul in 63 B.C. He was considered one of the best orators of his time. He was given the governorship of a province called Cilicia in 51 B.C. While in Cilicia, his main aim was to make the lives of the locals comfortable and to enhance the economic situation the province was passing through. To achieve this, he avoided problems, tried not to cause trouble to the locals and tried not to spend money on expenses. On the other…

Canada decided to unite upper Canada and lower Canada to get rid of all problems. The problems that the British Colonies were facing like political problems, economic problem, and military problems. They were not able to keep up, so one of the solutions was to unite upper Canada and lower Canada for stronger alliances. When uniting both upper and lower Canada complication occurred but certain events helped form modern Canada as we know it. OLD CANADA 1867 was when canada gained its…

as a holiday in Renaissance England fell during the Christmas festive period. This was a holiday in which the regular social order was dismissed and moral order ignored as disorder ruled and taboos on sex and violence were suspended. Twelfth Night came to be performed upon the sixth of January (hence the name) and the significance of the holiday in the play is clear when considering the way in which the play capitalises on the acceptable idea of misrule. Examples of misrule in the play include…

flows and the rivers flow” (jamessmithcreenation, n.d.). With over two hundred thousand members living in Canada, the Cree are one of the largest groups of First Nations in Canada and in North America. The James Smith Cree Nation is a diversion of the Cree Nation; a Cree First Nation band government. An agreement between band governments of First Nations at Fort Carlton over owned territory; current provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta (Postl et al. 2010). At the time of the treaty, the…

In Tale-Danda Karnad breathed a different kind of life into the poetic texts and historical events by developing a dramatic structure that would ‘explain’ the relation of poetry and religious mysitism to political economy and social radicalism and in the english version of the play he incorporated a generous selection of old and new translations of the vachanas by Ramanujan. The Fire and the Rain was originally written in kannada [Agni mattu Male (1995)] but rendered immediately into english for…