The Rape of Lucrece

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    William Shakespeare was known to have no birth records. But he was baptized on April 26th, 1564, which makes scholars think he was born near or on April 23rd, 1564. Most scholars think he was born on that date so thats what they refer to when he was born. William Shakespeare was about 5’9 and around one hundred and fifty pounds according to scholars. He was right handed. He had long curly hair and a trimmed beard. He had green eyes, and he was white. William Shakespeare's home town was about…

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    Shakespeare as many would say is/was one of the world’s greatest play writers in the history of playwriting. To this very day students memorize his many different poems and reinterpret the words of the text he written. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon a town 100 miles NW of London, He was born April 23, 1564 and sadly died on the same day 52 years later. On the contrary to that Shakespeare father John was a man of many jobs; he was into farming, wood trading, tanning,…

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    While reading through the many plays that you all listed that we could focus our project on, I chose the play Romeo and Juliet because of the well written and articulated scenes while reading. I also chose to create my project on Romeo and Juliet because it is a tragedy play written about two opposite thrones (the Capulets and Montagues) in which they have a teen daughter and a teen son who both fall in love with each other with the thought of marriage, but in the end it is a ultimate twist.…

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    tragedies that belong to the theater entertainment to “attack” the reader. Since the theater was closed during 1593-1594, it did not stop Shakespeare’ passion, because he started with “nondramatic poetry”, Seriocomic Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, both revealed advanced skills of Elizabethan history (“William Shakespeare”). During 1594, he became the main writer “for the successful Lord Chamberlain’s Men” (“William Shakespeare”), companies of the actors. In 1599, they built the Globe…

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