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    Shakespeare’s plays, but none have been truly accepted as the outright truth as there are “more than 5,000 books on the Shakespeare authorship question with more than 50 possible candidates.” (PDF from oxford) To thoroughly formulate a coherent argument towards discrediting Shakespeare and crediting Sir Francis Bacon, one must examine the backstory, and history of both Shakespeare and Bacon’s life, past and present. To begin, there is little known about William Shakespeare’s early life besides…

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    Yet people still argue whether Shakespeare is relevant today or not. Shakespeare is most definitely relevant in today’s classrooms for his substantial work of literature; therefore, his writing deserves to be taught. His work has been profitable and people have been quoting him for years without even knowing it. Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth are some of Shakespeare most popular plays. Most will study or even watch them ones in their life spam. Shakespeare work has been something the…

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    What Is Global Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare is arguably the most successful writers not only of his time but to date. His plays and poets have made their way across the globe and countless languages. However, the idea of the works of Shakespeare in a global sense is more than just the words of a man being read and heard around the word. It is how every culture takes his words, his plays and creating something that relates to them and yet is still, at its core, undeniably Shakespeare. It transcends language and stage,…

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    ability to influence other people or things. Writers have their unique style due to these life influences. When William Shakespeare wrote his play, As You Like It, his unique voice prevailed through out the entire play. No other writer could have expressed the vision the same way, because no other writer had experienced the same circumstances and therefore the same influences as Shakespeare. Many different factors, such as culture, biographical, and historical influences, affected the story of…

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    likewise that is what Shakespeare was forced to learn and that set the tone of how society would behave as well as the physical features of society. However, many of Shakespeare’s teachers were Catholics. Most notably, Robert Dibdale, one of Shakespeare’s Catholic teachers, who was an ordained a priest, was killed for teaching and implementing the teachings of the Catholic faith to students. He later became known as a martyr for the Catholic religion. In order for Shakespeare to flourish in his…

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    Of the considerable number of truths about Shakespeare, one of the most bizarre of all is that, despite the fact that he is viewed as the finest essayist of the English Language that there has ever been, Shakespeare didn't really compose every one of the expressions of some of his plays. Truth be told, a few individuals say that William Shakespeare didn't compose any of his works at all and that William Shakespeare was just a pseudonym that was utilized by some different scholars of his time.…

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    Shakespeare Gender Roles

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    many scenes where Shakespeare shows a switch of gender roles in society. In the Elizabethan time period, women and men who didn't follow the society standards were frowned upon. Shakespeare took that idea and ran with it and made much commentary throughout the play. Shakespeare was a feminist because he made a main character pose as a man, defied the stereotypical society, and created many switches in gender roles. Although this play was written in the Elizabethan era, Shakespeare was a…

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    stage." Those words will stand immortal through history. Shakespeare had a world very different from the one we live in today; he had a world of the Renaissance; of the Elizabethan Age; a world of exploration, discovery and art. He lived in a world dominated by men where a woman ruled over them all, such is irony. Though through those differences people have stayed the same. Is that not why we love Shakespeare even today. Yes, Shakespeare world was different in every way from its culture to its…

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    These are the ways that Shakespeare's world is different from our own. There are only going to be a few out of the many differences mentioned. It's exciting to see the difference between the past and the present. Shakespeare was one of the most beloved writer in all of history and this is how different his time period was compared to the modern world today. One way that Shakespeare's world is different from ours is how if you were a man or a woman, you were treated differently. In the article,…

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    Shakespeare’s plays and their film counterparts. Shakespeare has been done so many different ways, by many different people. Some do modern adaptations, set in different towns, even completely changing the words, and those are just on the stage. There has also been many film adaptations. Some are good, such as Mel Gibson’s 1990 adaptation of Hamlet, and some are not as good, such as Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 Romeo + Juliet. Three perfect examples of Shakespeare plays turned movies are Taymor’s…

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