William Shakespeare

influenced by the most famous writer and playmaker, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare has influenced quite a bit of today's modern culture through tragic, comical, and love filled writings and plays he wrote in the Renaissance period. We often see remakes of his romantic play, Romeo and Juliet, or his tragic play, Macbeth. Movies such as The Lion King and Men of Respect are based of Shakespeare plays like Hamlet and Macbeth. Although some could say that Shakespeare had nothing to do with the plot…

In 1609, William Shakespeare authored his poem entitled “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun”, which, as revealed in the last line, is a parody. This poem encapsulates the epitome of beauty for a woman by exhibiting ideal feminine qualities through similes and metaphors that compare a woman’s characteristics to beautiful features of nature. However, Shakespeare phrases his play to say that the speaker’s mistress does not possess such goddess-like qualities, but is as beautiful as any…

play, William Shakespeare uses the characters Beatrice, Benedick, and Hero to establish the theme of deception. Shakespeare uses the three to develop the theme deeply by juxtaposing their storylines and consequently showing both the benignant and the adverse impact that a lie can have on a person and a community. First and foremost, Shakespeare uses Hero to demonstrate the negative effects that a lie can have. She is portrayed as the sweet, innocent governor’s daughter who wants to…

time! You walk across the wooden boards and try to avoid the eyes of the lackluster auditors in order to open your mouth to speak… Shakespeare! Ugh. Shakespeare who is boring and makes no sense and makes you feel lost while speaking words that lack meaning while having some of the highest stake performances of your life. Why oh why, do we have to perform Shakespeare monologues as part of our auditions? For one reason or another, the two contrasting monologue audition has become the standard…

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is still relevant, for it contains allusions, imagery, and similes to which audiences can still relate today. Shakespeare uses those three literary devices to help the reader understand the play clearly. In the play, Shakespeare uses allusions to give the reader another way to look at what is happening in his play. Egeus tells Theseus “But this other man has cast a spell over my child’s heart” (page 5). This sentence is an allusion of a…

Greek, Roman, and Elizabethan eras. I will continue to discuss staging conventions by analyzing and comparing different plays to these eras including Trojan Women by Euripides, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn, and The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. In the Ancient Greek era some of the most prominent aspects of staging conventions…

Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford, England. No birth records exists. People believed he was born on or near April 23, 1564. This is the date scholars acknowledged as his date of birth. Shakespeare is the third child of John Shakespeare, a leather merchant, and Mary Arden, a local banded heiress. He has two older sisters, Joan and Judith, and three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund. Scholars have claimed that he most likely attended the King’s New School in…

is good and what is evil. Our population is 7 billion, 420 million and most people should be hard pressed to think that over 3.5 billion people in this world are evil. In sophomore level english II, students read Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. They also examine the articles “The Psychology of Evil” By Philip Zimbardo, “What Makes Good People Do Bad Things?” by Melissa Dittman, and “The Moral Economy of Guilt.” by Wilfred McClay. Despite the fact that…

“Lady is not honest”. Don John comes up with several plans in order to ruin hero’s marriage. In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Don John serves as the foil character of Don Pedro by which makes Don Pedro show his powers through Don John hatred which influences the conflict. Don pedro and don john are opposites, for Don John is very mischievous and Don pedro is Reliable. Don pedro constituency last through the book. Which affects relationship by making them opposites of each…

fourteen lines linked by a regular rhythm and one of two mayor rhyme schemes - that of either an Italian or Shakespearean sonnet (Prescott, 2010). Such forms will be analyzed in the works of two of the greatest poets of all time – John Donne and William Shakespeare. They are worthy canonical figures that are still acknowledged and studied today, were influenced by cultural and historical features of the era in which they wrote and included aesthetics in their works which are exclusive to…