A bit like opera; not everyone will love his works, but those who do not love his works will nonetheless have an appreciation for the artistic skill and beauty they contain. ... Very little is known and documented about Shakespeare the man. ... In the year 1592, Robert Greene, a London playwright said of Shakespeare: "...an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scen...

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Lysander says to Demetrius "You have her father's love. Do you marry him" implying that Demetrius might be attractive to males. ... He uses different ways, like malapropism, exaggerated alliteration, mispronunciation and also bad punctuation. ... Mispronunciations like perfet instead of perfect and bad punctuation like "We do not come, as minding to content you, our true intent is." makes the characters sound silly and the play rather funny. ... Flute who is a male had to dress up and act like a female when he was Thisbe in the play. ...

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As You Like It 1. "As You Like It" was written by William Shakespeare. ... As You Like It was written in this year, just after Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and Julius Caesar, and just before the writing of Hamlet in 1600. Unlike many of Shakespeare's plays, As You Like It seems to contain few references to the world outside the theatre; unlike the political history Shakespeare reworked in his "history plays," or the commentaries on kingship and power that pervade his tragedies, Shakespeare's comedy plays generally seem to be light-hearted works, meant to entertain and amu...

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In As You Like by William Shakespeare the search for love acts as the primary motive behind the actions of the play's three characters - Rosalind, Touchstone and Orlando. ... Thus , Rosalind , Touchstone and Orlando quest for love throughout William Shakespeare's As You Like It . ... During Shakespeare's time , the word was commonly used to refer to young men who engaged in homosexual romances (About Shakespeare). ... She says to him " I would cure you, if you would but call me / Rosalind and come every day to my cote and woo me , " (3.3416-417). ... In As You Like It ...

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Then I will perceive you are not nigh. Either death or you I"ll find immediately. ... She lingers my desires/ Like to a step-dame" (Act 1, Scene 1, 2-5). ... "And then the moon, like to a silver bow/ New bent in heaven, shall behold the night/ Of our solemnities"(Act I, Scene 1, 9-11). ... "Are you sure/ That we are awake? ...

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Shakespeare, in a way, is a brand. ... In distinguished plays such as Hamlet, one can see traces of Kyd's influence in aspects like that of the Machiavellian character Claudius, Hamlet's play within a play, and the most obvious of all, the fact that Hamlet, in and of itself, is a "Revenge Tragedy". ... As far as Kyd is concerned, the only time you might actually see or hear his name get brought up in an everyday setting is in a New York Times article titled "Further Proof of Shakespeare's Hand in The Spanish Tragedy". ... Regardless of how Shakespeare's ...

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Shakespeare had the right idea all along. ... Shall I Compare you to a Summer's Day? ... In the fourth line of the sonnet, Shakespeare says how summer is too short and how his lover's beauty does not end like this season does. ... Your mistress's eyes are like the sun? ... Your mistress's breath smells like perfume? ...

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I really liked the movie Renaissance Man because it has a good sense of humor but at the same time it has an educational side to it as well. It also shows that learning doesn't always have to be stressful - you can make it fun and educational the same time. ... He also answers some questions that his students asked about Shakespeare and his plays. ... The movie shows that anyone can feel a connection to Shakespeare and his work and it is a good way to let a class be introduced to Hamlet and Shakespeare. ... I recommend this movie to anyone that is about to get into Shakespeare or about t...

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Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

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Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

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Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

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Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

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Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like it both describe many serious elements and embark upon an exploration and treatment of some of the most seriousness of life's experiences and themes. ... I actually think that As You Like It is definitely a more interesting play in terms of its treatment of gender and how Rosalind "teaches" Orlando how to woo her. ... In As You Like It, disguise was used to explore the idea of gender and how it is perceived by society, as well as how people express themselves through gender expectations.  ... As You Like It reflects ...

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Othello Many people believe that in Othello, by William Shakespeare, the main character, Othello, is depicted in a racist way by the author. ... Then there's the characterization of Othello from Shakespeare; by this I mean that Shakespeare speaks of Othello directly through the characters that display a lack of bias, Desdemona, the Duke, etc. ... They also exhibit their racism by using phrases like "thick lips" (1-1, line 71), "an old black ram is tupping your white ewe" (1-1, line 97), and "your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (1-1, line 125). ... Desdemona says of Othello "y...

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The final line-- "Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote- has a pun on the word "view,"" which sounds similar to "you."" ... Unlike a traditional beauty in most of Shakespeare's sonnets, this woman does not have an appealing smell or "delightful- voice, and gives the reader a more relatable character. ... As the persona points out, his lover does not have a delightful tune, and when read, the line sounds much like a tune, mainly because of the alliteration-- "thy tongue's tune,"" and the extra syllable emphasizes that idea of imperfection. ... The tone however, is much like th...

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Both Shakespeare's comedic play As You Like It and Ken Kesey's post-modernist novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," portrays the transformation of its characters throughout the texts, via a close examination of the gradual evolution of character that occurs within the protagonists of each text. ... This can be seen in Shakespeare's, "As You Like It," which explores the growth of characters throughout their journeys through an examination of personal adversity. ... Conversely, Shakespeare's, "As You Like It," explores the notion of the transformation of identity as ...

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A predominant image presented in William Shakespeare's plays is the image of a garden, infested with weeds. ... Shakespeare incorporates political rhetoric such as "sire- and "oppression- to emphasize the allusion of Richard's court. ... You thus employed, I will go root away The noisome weeds which without profit suck The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. ... Again, Shakespeare includes political rhetoric, evoking the damaged state of England. ... Like the garden imagery in Richard II, the image of an "unweeded garden- in Hamlet is the protagonist's descriptio...

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In Sonnet 73 one will realize Shakespeare follows the classic pattern of the iambic pentameter with a slight variation; the poet utilizes the "spondaic foot" or heavey stress in the beginning of the fourth line in each of the quatrains. ... ( "Upon those boughs which shake against the cold") "Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." suggests a bare ,desolate place, empty of people, filled with decay and despair, much like the doom and gloom the poet feels in the late autumn of his life. In the second quatrain Shakespeare uses the day in the passage of time...

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"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?... I know a lot of other people who like his plays. ...

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The play As You Like It, was written about 600 years ago by William Shakespeare, yet the morals of this poem are still discussed today. ... "My father charged you in his will to give me good education," he stormed at his eldest brother Oliver, "but you have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities!" ... "Ten days," he told her, "If you outstay the time, you die." ... They talked and in the end Rosalind decided to test Orlando and said that "he" would like to meet the young man who "haunts the forest abuses our young plants with carving "Rosalind" ...

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"Shakespeare on screen has gradually become part of the establishment, reflecting its growing academic respectability" As time passed, and the world develops like sand thru an hr glass it's true to say that film has revolutionized the world through time. ... And therefore, setting all this chat aside, Thus plain terms: your father hath consented That you shall be my life, Ur dowry GREED on, And will you nil you, I will marry". ... He creates a plan to tame her much like how he would tame a falcon. ... Like petruchio disguises himself in an attempt to tame katherina Stratfor...

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(Lines 1-2) Here, Shakespeare is stating that there should be no obstacles between two people in "true" love. ... (Lines 5-8) Love, which is usually undefined and gorgeous, becomes perfectly exact; either you have true love or you do not. ... It looks upon a tempest and remains immutable; it is like the North Star that all boughs of the trees bend towards. ... Is Shakespeare confident of his work? ... Shakespeare uses the sonnet to fully describe love, and is able to powerfully to add certainty to his point....

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I really liked this sonnet because it talked about how a person needs a child to continue your life after you are dead. ... I enjoyed how Shakespeare intended this sonnet to demonstrate how having a child is obligatory. That there is no pint in living if you do not have a child because once you die your name will die too. ... In conclusion, many people my age do not recognize or appreciate Shakespeare because of the style of writing or the prolonged stories. But what they do not realize is that they can relate to Shakespeare a lot, if they only took the time to understand what he is portr...

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