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The poem “Tears, Idle Tears” by Alfred Tennyson was written in 1847, during the beginning of the Victorian era. Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom in 1809 and died in Lurgashall, United Kingdom in 1892. He had seven brothers and four sisters, none of which were as recognized for their work as Alfred Tennyson was. His father, a church rector, became melancholy when he realized his family had started to lose money due to disinheritance. This is what started his heavy…

Which One Is Written Better? Shakespeare was brought to all in the 1564, yet so far back but so popular now. Some of the popular Shakespearean plays are the Twelfth Night another one Romeo and Juliet. While doing research on these two wonderful plays it showed there is quite a difference in the plot structure, theme, and symbolism of the plays.Looking at the evidence supporting that Romeo and Juliet is written with a better plot structure, theme, and better symbolism than Twelfth Night. The…

Osborne's Life: John Osborne was born in 1929 in a London suburb, of a lawyer middle-class parents. He was educated in London in a boarding school where he developed a passion for acting and for writing plays, but in 1946 he left school and worked for two trade magazines. In 1948 he became an actor and shortly after an actor-manager, continuing to write his own plays especially during his periods of unemployment. In 1956 he wrote Look Back in Anger, which was produced at the Royal Court Theatre…

Christopher Marlowe born in 1564, he was an english playwright, poet, translator of the elizabethan era. He was born to shoemaker John Marlowe. He was just two months older to his contemporary William Shakespeare. He was educated at King’s school Canterbury and at the Cambridge University. He was the foremost elizabethan tragedian of his day. Christopher Marlowe, he was the greatest dramatist of the medieval period. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was based on German Faustbuch. Marlowe’s…

The story of The Three Stooges began in 1922 with Ted Healy, Moe Howard and Samuel “Shemp” Howard. From a young age, Moe Howard desired to go about the career of acting. He started in smaller positions, taking most anything, such as performing in Shakespearean plays. However, nothing for Moe stuck or became massively successful. That was until he re-encountered a long-time friend, and now Vaudeville entertainer, Ted Healy, at the Brooklyn Prospect Theatre. Healy needed a…

How does a play about a bastard, orphan, son of a whore go on and on grow into more of a phenomenon? Lin Manuel Miranda changed Broadway in 2015 with his musical Hamilton. Inspired by a biography by Ron Chernow about the life of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda went to work on what might be the most influential musical of the decade. Miranda, in creating his work, had to work through the constraints, find the exigence, and establish the audience for writing a Broadway musical while also making it…

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. These inspirational yet mysterious words were spoken by a very famous person. Shakespeare. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/williamsha164317.html#WxbKe7FVZjWYWODk.99 Shakespeare, the bard himself. It is hard to imagine how the English language would have evolved without him. Some of the best loved plays, books, sonnets, poems, and phrases ever were created by this one man. Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and…

A renaissance man is defined as “a person with many talents or areas of knowledge.” (Defining the “Renaissance Man”) There have been many throughout history. One of the most famous people in literature, Shakespeare, could be considered an ideal renaissance man. As I learned more about Shakespeare, I wondered how others portrayed him. Was he considered a renaissance man? What exactly is a renaissance man? As I learned the definition of a renaissance man, I concluded that Shakespeare was indeed a…

An Influence Never Forgotten Regardless of age or ethnicity, at some point during life, most people read and even quote Shakespeare. Through his writing, Shakespeare shaped many areas of modern life including speech, future writers, and standards of entertainment. His impacted the English language tremendously, coining many common phrases which people use in everyday language. In addition to this huge contribution on languages, Shakespeare created a well known style of sonnet which many poets…

Shakespeare, one of the most recognizable authors today, has greatly contributed to literary history. Many people swear by books such as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. Others believe his stories, written over 400 years ago, have no relevance to today. Middle and high school teachers have taught Shakespeare’s works for decades. People of all different ages know at least a few Shakespeare references, such as the famous quote “to be, or not to be”. Teaching Shakespeare in high schools has become an…