Shakespeare

are believed to have not been wrote shakespeare. Modern day historians believe that the two later folios were made to meet the changing preferences in the area at the time. Due to the fact that all of Shakespeare's work is over 400 years old, there are many people who have conspiracy thoughts toward Shakespeare. It's hard to imagine that someone could accuse a very famous person such as Shakespeare of anything, but there are many historians that believe Shakespeare didn't actually write his…

To be, or not to be- that is the question. This long disputed argument on whether Shakespeare should remain in the high school curriculum involves many assumptions and doubts. Does Shakespeare’s writing really transcends time, or is it so archaic all that students want is respite from this Elizabethan-age torture? Are we honoring the literary prowess or just the man behind the masterpiece? The only way to determine the answer is to look at the students, as it is their education and their…

Shakespeare and Browning Beg The Question In Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43 and William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, both authors describe the immense love they have for another person. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of her most popular authors during the Victorian Era of English literature. William Shakespeare was the most popular author during the Elizabethan Era. The first line of the Elizabeth’s poem asks the question, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!” (595). After that…

Macbeth, Shakespeare often uses this motif of hands to enhance the clarity of one of his overarching messages. At first impression, Macbeth seems to be a loyal and righteous character, however the coercing of his wife, Lady Macbeth, and his own desire for power, each lead him to commit a relentless chain of unprincipled acts. Along with creating an overwhelming chain reaction of subsequent events, simply performing one unethical act proves to illicit a…

too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes” when William Shakespeare was writing The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, he applied Jackson’s words to his tragedy. Shakespeare made it clear in his writing that he wanted there to be many themes, but the one theme he wanted to stick out the most was the government will selfishly do things even if it does not benefit the people. Shakespeare does this through characters such as Claudius. He also shows through Claudius…

and the usual notion of a sonnet being concerned with love is adhered to. However, in other ways Shakespeare breaks this and subverts these usual notions through the use of contradictions and paradoxical statements. This links to the idea that Shakespeare embraces the use of poetic devices, such as rhyme in order to convey a different message in this Sonnet, compared to the typical form. Shakespeare presents Sonnet 130 as an archetype in the structual form of the Sonnet. In some regards, Sonnet…

Shakespeare and the Bubonic Plague The bubonic plague, also known as the black death, was an epidemic that struck during the Elizabethan age and spread throughout Europe, killing millions. The plague started in the early 1300s in China, mainly affecting rodents, but it didn’t take long for it to be spread to humans (“Shakspeare and the Bubonic Plague”). It spread to Europe by Italian merchants, and it soon developed the nickname, the black death, due to the grotesque black spots that appeared…

William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night and the film Shakespeare in Love deal with the complexities of gender and sexuality. Even though the play Twelfth Night was published nearly four hundred years before Shakespeare in Love was released, Shakespeare’s play represents a more modern outlook on gender. Both materials involve cross-dressing, but cross-dressing is more of a feature in Shakespeare in Love, while Twelfth Night actually delves into the complexities of what it means to be either male…

witchcraft but as evidence of the social utility of such beliefs in a variety of societies” (Stallybrass). “ The development of the motifs and imagery of magic in Macbeth let Shakespeare to take a closer look at the sources of classical mythology,” because the King at the time was a firm believer in Witches, and this way Shakespeare could make the witches look and sound more believable (Stallybrass). At the time deeming a woman a witch “can be used, for instance, to account for the “unnatural”…

is a constant. That is why shakespeare uses death not just as an event but has a key theme throughout Hamlet thou are own death we avoid, it’s others that draw us in and fuel are anger or guilt and are imagination, shakespeare uses this to draw the reader/viewer into the play. By not using death just has an event shakespeare uses it to drive characters actions of vengeance, hate, guilt and fear to progress the story a long. By presenting death through dialogues shakespeare gives death an…