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    Hamlet is a revenge tragedy play written by Williams Shakespeare. The play is all about revenge; many characters are seeking revenge of other characters with different reason and motives. In every revenge tragedy, there should be a ghost that asks for revenge. The three major themes that most of the characters are involved in are revenge, madness and spying. The three themes are related to each other, while revenge was the reason behind madness and madness was the reason behind spying. To make it more obvious, in order to the protagonist Prince Hamlet avenges his father’s death he had to pretend to be mad, which shows how they are related to each other. Other characters didn’t know the reason behind Prince Hamlet madness was it because of his…

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    Fatherhood In Hamlet

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    However situational the plots in which Shakespeare writes can apply to everyday life, such as in Hamlet it is very situational to be mad at his uncle about killing his dad and replacing him as king and his technically his step father? Uncle dad something like that, seems like it Hamlet would fit in just right in Kansas... But being mad at a step-parent is a very apparent thing that occurs on a daily basis, the child in everyday life is not plotting his revenge on the stepparent... hopefully.…

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    Shakespeare was baptized on April 23, 1564 in Holy Trinity Church. Because of the lack of birth records, this is the date we acknowledge as his birthday. He grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon. William Shakespeare’s parents were John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. William was the third child, having two older sisters Joan and Judith. There are not many records as to Shakespeare’s early life. According to scholars, Shakespeare may have attended the King’s New School. (William Shakespeare Biography). At…

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    is Macbeth, who is willing to assassinate whoever stands in his road to glory. In his play, The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare utilizes clandestine deaths, his search for greatness as he travels to London, and his experiences to win over King James I to convey that, in the pursuit of ambitious ideas, one may do whatever it takes to acquire eminence and prestige. Firstly, Shakespeare mirrors his son through Hamnet to elucidate that all is disregarded in pursuit of power. It is important…

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    William Shakespeare is considered to be one of greatest play writes of Elizabethan dramatist of all time. He was an English poet, a playwright, and an actor. He is widely known as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist. He became famous for his unique and intricate style of writing. Shakespeare is known for writing many plays and poets, but he is mostly reminisced by his accomplishments and his leadership. Shakespeare was born in the year 1564 and died…

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    William Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers in the English history. He was born on 23 April 1564 in Stratford. He had seven other siblings, and his parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. William was the 3rd child of John and Mary Shakespeare. Scholars have said that William probably attended the king's new school in Stratford. William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway on November 28th, 1584. They had three children, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith, but Hamnet died at age 11 from…

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    the Real William Shakespeare Please Stand Up? In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare once said “Tempt not a desperate man” (Romeo and Juliet). This quote relates to the question of the authorship of Shakespeare’s works. Was he desperate enough to take credit for someone else’s work? Many different people including authors such as Mark Twain have doubted his authorship since his death. There are many factors of Shakespeare’s life can prove or disprove his authorship. Shakespeare was not the real author…

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    Macbeth Biography

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    although no birth records existed. Holy Trinity Church records show that William Shakespeare was baptized at in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564, approximately three days after his birth. William was John Shakespeare and Mary Arden's third child. William had two sisters which were both older than him, Joan and Judith, and William also had three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard and Edmund. Before William's birth, John Williams dad became a successful man involved in wholesale trade. Next…

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    William Shakespeare is considered as one of the greatest writer in the world, that once lived. He wrote so many plays and sonnets and to be more exact, it was 37 plays and 154 sonnets. William Shakespeare did not only write plays, he also acted them out, he was an actor and performed at the Global Theater. He was born in April 23, 1564 at Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom and died at April 23, 1616 at the same place he was born. He had three nicknames, Bard of Avon, Swan of Avon and The Bard.…

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    Shakespeare's Rough Draft At Stratford-upon-Avon in April,1564 a little child was born and he was to be forever remembered as “Shakespeare the world's greatest playwright.” He began going to school for free at Stratford in 1571, six years later his father took him out of school and made him a local butcher’s apprentice. Shakespeare fell in love with a girl named Anne Hathaway a few years later and married her in 1582, they had their first child in 1583 and her name was Susanna. Two years…

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