The Taming of the Shrew

Just six years before his birth Elizabeth I became queen of England in 1558. It was a time of great history and relative political stability, followed and preceded by eras of upheaval. For the time being, arts held a great importance; theaters thrived and playwrights were active including William Shakespeare. Theater was central to Elizabethan social life leading to great buildings and the development of companies of actors, both professional and amateur. It did receive criticism. Puritan…

The Truth behind Shakespeare’s Plays The odds of someone having read Shakespeare at least once in their life is significantly high. William Shakespeare is known worldwide as a writing icon for his works such as “Romeo and Juliet”, “Macbeth”, and countless others. One impact of Shakespeare’s works is that they are commonly used as a learning tool in many schools nationwide. Students examine hidden meanings behind his literary devices and the Elizabethan era language. Although Shakespeare is…

William Shakespeare had a lot of success in his life and accomplishments. He became a shareholder in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men for the rest of his career in 1594, was given a royal license from King James and so did his fellow players. Wrote his most accomplished plays about courtly power during King James’s reign. Shakespeare was able to change peoples lives with his plays while he was dead. The plays sort of help make and shape this continent, he was able to make theater, literature, and…

years later in 1987, Morgan Freeman created the role of Hoke Coleburn in Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Driving Miss Daisey. This got him his fourth Obie Award. In 1990, Freeman was back at the New York Shakespeare Festival’s The Taming of the Shrew starring as Petruchio. When Freeman returned to the broadway stage in 2008, Freeman starred with Frances Mcdormand and Peter Gallagher in…

in the death of King Hamlet. However, neither of those are quite true. The story of “Hamlet” takes place in the late middle ages, or 14th-15th centuries, when Shakespeare didn’t publish the story until 1601. In one of his other works, “The Taming of the Shrew” which is also set in the Renaissance era, it is made abundantly clear by the society that there is a specific role women take on. “Such duty as the subject owes the prince Even such a woman oweth to her husband; And when she is froward,…

Also comedy have a several types Farce, Romantic Comedy, Satirical Comedy, Sentimental comedy, Black comedy, Comedy of humours and Comedy of manners. The Farce is a form of low comedy, whose intention is to provoke simple mirth in the form of roars of laughter (and not smiles); it uses exaggerated physical action, character and absurd situation, with improbable events, a complex plot, with events rapidly succeeding one another, pushing character and dialogue into the background. The origins of…

A misogynistic society often comes with many consequences. Hence the topic of female stereotypes has been addressed for centuries, from Shakespeare’s era to the 20th century to present day. William Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew and Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s (1850-1919) poem “Woman” exhibit their opinions regarding a woman’s role in society and the manner in which she responds. Shakespeare and Wilcox both reject the idea that female stereotypes, set by a misogynistic society, pressures…

I chose William Shakespeare because he is a very interesting person. It is weird how no one actually knows his real birthday. They think that he had died on his 52nd birthday, but no one actually know the real facts about him. He is also known for the greatest dramatist of all time. It is very fun and interesting researching him. I’m happy I got to research William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born on April 23,1564, in Stratford, United Kingdom. They assumed his birthday was then, but…

Female Exclusion in Shakespeare’s Plays If William Shakespeare was alive today, he would most likely be considered a “mennist”. In many of his plays, he included a large number of male characters, but only a handful of female characters. If one were to ask someone on the street what female roles were in Shakespeare plays, only a few would be easily retrieved for most. Of course, those female roles would be the infamous Juliet from Romeo and Juliet, Lady Macbeth from Macbeth, Beatrice from Much…

this name because the historical records were never completed (Life par. 3). Shakespeare reappeared in the year 1592 taking his works to the stage (Life par. 4). By the year 1594, he had written Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Love’s Labor’s Lost (Life par.…