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    is a comparison of Anon to Shakespeare because scholars know little about Shakespeare’s life, but they can learn about it through his works. Smiley states that he is not Anon, but he is very similar to him. 3. Scholarship means everything that has to do with education, books, writing and the arts in general. The arts have changed…

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    same (“Sonnet,” Wikipedia). William Shakespeare is one of the most widely known sonnet writers. Contemporaries of Shakespeare include: Sir Philip Sidney who penned sequences “Astrophel and Stella;” Edmund Spenser who wrote “The Faerie Queene;” and Michael Drayton who gave us “The Parting” (“Sonnet,” Wikipedia). “Sonnet 18,” according to Wikipedia, is one the most widely known of the 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare…

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    Is Shakespeare still relevant ? Yes , Shakespeare is in fact relevant to the ninth grade curriculum . Shakespeare should be taught to ninth graders . It should be taught because it is important to learn about different types of writing .Shakespeare should be taught to the ninth graders because students now about old time writers and things that they have either made up or experienced . According to www. AmericanTheater.org “ Shakespeare is important to be taught in highshcool , - especially to…

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    Background The Elizabethan Era was a time Shakespeare himself lived in. From 1558- 1603 France was in a position of growing population and more upper class. Humanism was popular along with individual talent such as painting, sculpting, literature, engineering, and inventing. Elizabeth ruled France well. She gave religious tolerance, she did her best to keep young children from becoming soldiers, and promoted art and literature. Elizabeth sadly got involved with a war, according to britannia.com…

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    The shifts in how Shakespeare has been consumed and distributed from early 19th century to today in the 21st century has been made possible through various aspects of social culture. These shift can be explained though three different approaches to how culture is consumed and produced. This paper will focus of comparing and contrasting two of them in analysis of the shift of Shakespeare. The two approaches this paper will focus on are art worlds and the production of culture perspective. This…

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    my paper I will be analyzing sonnet 106 by William Shakespeare. Knowing that it is a shakespearean sonnet, I will be analyzing each of the quatrains and the couplet. I will determine the overall meaning of the sonnet as I am going through each parts of it. I will spot any literary…

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    Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130”. In this sonnet, Shakespeare uses a judgemental tone along with blunt language to declare his lady’s charm and then closes with a prideful tone to express his love for her even after all of his negative words. In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130”, he uses a judgemental tone to express through example…

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    perspective of a person who lost love. The poem is written with iambic pentameter with regretful, yet repentant tone. Along with the shift of the focus, Shakespeare uses melancholic diction, juxtaposition, and connotation to effectively emphasize the regret of letting go of the true love, although it is too late. In the first quatrain, Shakespeare carefully picks words with negative connotation to create the remorseful tone such as: “made myself a motley” (110.2), as he lists out his…

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    Shakespeare’s perception of the human condition rests upon the fact that people grow, reach a certain climax, and then they slowly drift their way out of history. Shakespeare uses a plant metaphor to illustrate human growth and decay, and then he gives his take on how to overcome time and live on forever immortalized in our own actions. Shakespeare begins the sonnet with a simple phrase when he says, “When I consider everything that grows.” By giving the reader insight into his thoughts, he…

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    Indeed, since Judith and Shakespeare were from the same household, one would assume both of them would be sent off to a university or college to pursue a higher education, but this was not the case. Shakespeare was sent to London for a higher education to study applications of Latin, grammar, and logic while exploring his fascinations of the world. However, Women during this time period were not considered in inferior and not vsignificant enough to have an education, and having no money, they…

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