William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona Beach; a violent modern city of guns, money and greed. ... Shakespeare's heart-wrenching tale of doomed love is told with passion, beauty, wit, furious energy and a worldwide, best selling soundtrack. ... Baz Lugrmann's Romeo And Juliet is a very interesting and intriguing interpretation of Shakespeare's tale of two star-crossed lovers, and I heartily recommend it. **** 1/2 stars...

• Word Count: 380
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• Grade Level: High School

The city of London had seen its population double in the decades following 1563, to top 200,000 people for the first time, and a massive new middle class was influencing the economic, cultural, and literary development of the nation. ... To be sure, As You Like It contains good and bad rulers - Duke Frederick and Oliver are tyrannous siblings, who usurp the rights of their nobler kin, Duke Senior and Orlando - but their wickedness comes straight out of fairy tales, and, the nature of their badness left unexplored, it is easy to create a happy ending by simply letting them reform. ... Adam, the...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

These highly subjective sonnets are wonderful tales full of love, deception, and betrayal. ... But with the next two lines, "Or who is he so fond will be the tomb/ Of his self-love, to stop posterity" (ll 7-8), Shakespeare now uses the pronoun 'he', which is the basis of the unclearness as to whether or not the audience is a woman. ... This revelation of the audience's self absorbency explains the anger expressed in the final two lines, "But if thou live remembered not to be/ Die single, and thine image dies with thee" (ll 13-14). ... Summer is thought of as the most enjoyab...

• Word Count: 3329
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

But if that is the case, then Lear cannot be in a tragic situation as Hegel defines it, that is, he is not caught in the clash of two legitimate principles, a situation from which there is no simple escape, no matter how much he learns. ... What is precisely characteristic of Lear in act 3 is that he cannot hold together the two images of human nature he observes in Edgar as first Tom o' Bedlam and then as the "noble philosopher" (3.4.172), and that is the deepest reason why his experience on the heath at least momentarily unfits him for rule. ...

• Word Count: 8939
• Approx Pages: 36
• Grade Level: High School