Gloucester

While often regarded as an Elizabethan playwright, Shakespeare’s career straddled two epochs: the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1562 to 1603) and the reign of King James (1603 to 1625). While it is notoriously difficult to find details about Shakespeare’s personal life, he taps into what was happening around him in his writing. This was the year in which two of Shakespeare’s best-known plays were crafted: Macbeth and, the subject of this notebook, King Lear. The latter play tells the story of the…

mistakes he had made when he gave his power and land to his two manipulative daughters and disowned Cordelia. He sympathizes with his blind follower, Gloucester and cries out to him in disappointment of not being able to see the lies in his children all this time: “If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes/ I know thee well enough. Thy name is Gloucester/ Thou must patient. We came crying hither. Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air/ We wawl and cry.” (4.4.164-168). From Lear’s…

In the Morgan V Virginia case Irene Morgan, a negro woman got aboard led a motor common carrier from Gloucester County in the state of Virginia headed for Baltimore, Maryland. When she was asked to give up her seat to a white person and move to the back of the bus and a law in Virginia ordered. However, she refused to give away her seat stating that the bus she boarded was an interstate bus and that the Virginia law that demanded she give up her seat did not apply here. Upon refusal to give up…

opposite I stood/To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion, /With his preparèd sword he charges home/My unprovided body, lanced mine arm” (6.47-51). And he betrays his father by revealing to Cornwall that Gloucester had known about an impending attack from France, and yet kept it a secret. This causes Gloucester to have his eyes gauged out, all because of…

Regardless of those three-hundred-year-old level headed discussion in regards to those absence of solidarity in the plot of above all else Lear, it may be a standout amongst the A large portion discernable and gripping of William Shakespeare’s dramatizations. Those subject for dutiful thanklessness is introduced obviously in the portrayal of two families, whom condition inevitably unite as those two story lines meet. Lord lear may be not main an absorbing show yet all the a irritating person.…

for I may never lift / An angry arm against his minister.” (1.2.38-41). This is the first concrete example of King Richard’s loss of power. John of Gaunt says to the Duchess of Gloucester that he refuses to exact revenge against Richard, even though Richard is probably behind the murder of his brother and her husband Gloucester, because Gaunt still believes that Richard was appointed to the kingship by God; in taking action against Richard, Gaunt would be committing treason against both the…

In William Shakespeare’s Richard III, two important themes that take place in the play are power and manipulation. When humans get too greedy and ambitious, they become cold-hearted and inhuman. In this play, the main character, Richard, is craving for power; his need of power made him do anything to pursuit his goals and desires. Moreover, in order to gain the power he wants, Richard is constantly manipulating characters around him to fulfill his dream of becoming a king. In the beginning of…

bodies, or even the removal of someone’s eyes, no physical form of suffering is as impactful as the emotional suffering saw in the play. In Shakespeare's King Lear, the characters irrationality leads to their suffering, and ultimately their death. Gloucester, Cordelia, and Lear reach their breaking points by many forces, most notably being themselves. In the play, the characters irrationality derives from their beliefs…

compel our listeners to fall in step behind us and inspire new generations with a love of history. But nobody knows the individual members making up the Corps. If you ask us, I think we prefer it that way. When I, personally, march down The Duke of Gloucester Street, my sole concern lies with playing my instrument –the 18th century field snare drum− to the best of my ability. My training at Fife and Drums stresses the characteristics of responsibility, excellence, and leadership; leaving…

Henry V demonstrates his ability to communicate with people from all, walks of life. When he gives his St. Crispin’s Day speech to his men just before a battle to where they were terribly outnumbered. In this speech, Henry demonstrates this ability to make all of his men feel valued and equal. In this essay, I will examine three examples that show Henry speaking to his men and demonstrating that they are all in the battle together. Before the battle Henry gives a speech, in one part he says…