The bard was very talented, being able to produce play after play in very short periods of time. ... Similarly, Macbeth's ambition to become king eventually leads to his demise. ... The most obvious example is the appearance of Banquo's ghost to Macbeth in which only Macbeth can see; everyone else around him is oblivious to his vision and therefore considers him mad. ... The most popular of Shakespeare's tragic plays end with death, usually of the protagonist. ... Aside from a depressing ending, these plays all end in a violent or self-destructive way. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Making Not every play in which a Hero dies is considered a tragedy. There are more elements needed to label a play one. ... For example, MacBeth was evil, yet he was a tragic hero, because he had free will. ... Every tragic play must have a tragic hero. ... In MacBeth, although MacBeth commits many murders, one almost feels sorry for him and his fate. ...

• Word Count: 1033
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• Grade Level: High School

Making Not every play in which a Hero dies is considered a tragedy. There are more elements needed to label a play one. ... For example, MacBeth was evil, yet he was a tragic hero, because he had free will. ... Every tragic play must have a tragic hero. ... In MacBeth, although MacBeth commits many murders, one almost feels sorry for him and his fate. ...

• Word Count: 1033
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Macbeth is a play rich with Gothic images including many references to dreams and sleep. ... Macbeth does murder sleep"-the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. ... Macbeth acknowledges the gravity of his actions with these words. ... In Romeo and Juliet, dreams and premonitions are also a recurring motif throughout the play. ... (Act II, 3) Again we have a reference to sleep as the spoils of the innocent, untro...

• Word Count: 2655
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

From 1601-1607, he wrote such plays as King Lear and Macbeth. ... She had absolutely adored Shakespeare's plays. His company performed a total of 32 plays there. ... The plays he wrote from 1608-1611 include The Tempest, and the Winters Tail. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Oxymorons can also be used I speeches, plays and poems. ... In Macbeth Shakespeare uses a hell-kite instead of a raven to express the same emotions that Juliet is having with another character, Macduff. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is where he first devised, staged and directed a thirty minute play entitled "Strictly Ballroom" later to become the basis for his first hit film. ... "I'm through with Romeo and Juliet and boy meets girl, and on to Macbeth and man kills beast." ... The beginning of Moulin Rouge is set as a narrative, with the lead male part Christian (played by Ewan McGregor), narrating the story line and telling of how his one true love is dead. ... Luhrmann's film makes good use of this, and to remind the audience of the tragedy involved the film begins with a television on screen with a n...

• Word Count: 2477
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School