Giving pupils the opportunity to have ownership and responsibility during the scheme of work where Shakespeare is the focus seems to be key in engaging students. ... The RSC report, "Would you risk it for Shakespeare?... There were fears from staff that moving furniture was dangerous and time consuming but by persevering with getting a space cleared, the task becomes quicker each time and the report makes a point that when the furniture was not removed the class became, "unresponsive, they lacked interest and their ideas were limited.... In my experience, when a class is uncooperativ...

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"Fear no more the heat of the sun" is written by William Shakespeare, in the time Elizabethan England, during the later part of the renaissance period, when society was very structured, and different from today. ... "Fear no more", is derived from the play Cymbeline, one of his later comedies. ... In this poem, Shakespeare presents a very strong argument to the reader, and does this using numerous poetic devices. ... Through this he creates meaning-to "fear no more" life for everything will come to an end. ... Shakespeare uses metonymy to introduce a new group of people who must face the inev...

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Shakespeare's The Tempest is the play from which the phrase originates. ... Love, the basis for action in so many of Shakespeare's plays and many of his sonnets, is now an unfamiliar theory; something that was done in the past, but no one now understands the reasons behind it. ... Without disease or old age, death is no longer to be dreaded or a source of suffering for the dying or the friends of the dying. ... Emotions are masked by soma, whether anger, fear, or plain boredom. ... No more unrequited loves or broken hearts, no more family feuds, no more saddening death, no more passi...

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Shakespeare authored King Lear around 1605, between Othello and Macbeth, and it is usually ranked with Hamlet as one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. ... Elizabeth had produced no male heir, and the anxiety about who her successor would be was fueled by fears that a dynastic struggle along the lines of the fifteenth-century Wars of the Roses might ensue. ... Elizabeth had produced no male heir, and the anxiety about who her successor would be was fueled by fears that a dynastic struggle along the lines of the fifteenth-century Wars of the Roses might ensue. ... Elizabeth had produced no...

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One of the main aspects of Shakespeare's writing that literary critics assess and praise is his ability to write women that are fully developed and rich in character. ... In The Tempest, when Ferdinand first meets Miranda, despite being immediately taken by her beauty, his primary concern is her chastity: "If you be maid or no." ... Additionally, a woman as a whore has to die in the end, because men have underlying fear of them which is endorsed by society". ... Despite writing in an era in which this was not highly appreciated, Shakespeare makes attempts at recognising the d...

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Yet she makes no order for this to change nor does she more than mildly rebuke those who think that a woman on the stage is the 'beginning of the end'. ... The 1998 film, Shakespeare in Love, cleverly altered the way in which audiences viewed Shakespeare by adjusting the temperament of the film with a modern lens. ... The set of Shakespeare in Love is a clever conception of London in the 1500's and convincingly reveals to the audience the possible conditions of how Shakespeare may have lived (Fitzsimmons, 2012). ... As per Dusinberre (2012): "The female gossip networks gave...

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Both William Shakespeare's original play and the cinematic adaptation by Oliver Parker explore ideas of otherness and the patriarchy. William Shakespeare represents multiple ideas in his play Othello. Oliver Parker further resonates Shakespeare's ideas, using different cinematic techniques. ... Both William Shakespeare and Oliver Parker show how that idea, when entwined with fears and misunderstandings of otherness can lead to catastrophic incidents. ... Emilia stands up for Desdemona who can no longer do it herself, she courageously defies the orders of the males who are commanding...

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Relating to this idea, people fearing of time propose them to do many inferior things depending on their jobs. ... Many women especially beauty queens who tend to use annual makeup to keep their appearance attractive, as a result of fearing of wrinkles and face problems. ... , simply, the idea of immortality and fear of death, which were an obsession for people along time ago. ... The sonnets of Shakespeare abound in imagery of all kinds, and many dominant themes. ... Shakespeare in his sonnets tried to immortalize himself and his thoughts that until now none can ignore his works, wherever you...

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I want the life brought back to the words of Robert Frost and William Shakespeare and I want to see the value and beauty of the English language restored. ... I agree with Ruth's fear of "Tweetspeak.... Today's generation are tweeting and texting with letters symbolizing basic sounds and acronyms of words they can no longer remember the proper spelling or meaning. ... Texting has been defended as simply talking with your fingers; even Robert Frost and Shakespeare never wrote the same way they spoke in conversation. ... As William Shakespeare would say, "A fool thinks himse...

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This was a dreadful initiation process that makes him fear, but his attention is distracted by Mephistopheles through a dance of devil. At this level, it is very clear that Faustus is no longer a normal human being but a spirit under full control of the devil. ... Shakespeare's Play, Richard III According to William Shakespeare's presentation, Richard III in the eponymous play is a man driven by vengeance, ambition, and a thirst for power. ... The unattractive physique used by Shakespeare makes Richard III look like an anti-hero, and as a result, other characters and the audience r...

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Stoppard effectively relocates Shakespeare's play to the 1960s by reassessing and reevaluating the themes and characters of Hamlet and considering core values and attitudes of the 1960s- a time significantly different to that of Shakespeare. ... Stoppard deliberately alters the configuration of the play to create a confusing atmosphere, which creates the exact feeling of society in the 1960s- no definites or certainties to rely on. ... It is just before this death that they realise that "there must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said- no." ... The uncertainty of...

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Shakespeare has done this in order to render him as a tragic hero. ... It is almost as if language itself has no ability in deciphering Hyde as a person. ... However the potion is the key in separating the two, bringing out Hyde with no angelic counterpart. ... Shakespeare presents consumption of sin through the Chain of being. ... The witches are associated with the supernatural and during the time satanic ideas and witchcraft was heavily feared and dealt with severely. ...

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In class, we have been reading Shakespeare's famous play Hamlet, along with watching two altogether different Hamlet movies, one by Kenneth Branagh and the other by Franco Zeffirelli. We must consider with certainty that both movies made their particular rendition of Hamlet by deciphering Shakespeare's unique story in an unexpected way. ... Zeffirelli made an extremely wise choice when he chose to have almost no cosmetics on Helena this made Ophelia look worn down and tired, which she would be suffering from with becoming mad. ... By Zeffirelli making the decision to use extremely s...

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King Hamlet tells his son he has been murdered by his brother Claudius, "cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled, no reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head" and is now condemned to purgatory. ... Instead, he must wait until Claudius is "about some act that has no relish of salvation in't and that his soul may be as damned and black as hell, whereto it goes." ... This in turn leaves the audience feeling an unsettling sense of confusion as opposed to the satisfying sense of retribution they are no doubt expecting from a...

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Throughout the sixteenth century, many of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Hamlet, were tragedies that readers could feel strong emotional connections with. ... In modern-day literature, Hamlet is still appreciated and still holds an equal appeal however, audiences are no longer solely attracted to the ultimate tragedy itself, but rather the play's many hidden subplots and the uncertainty of Hamlet's madness. ... Hamlet misinterprets Claudius' actions and decides not to kill him during this moment, (though it could have been done quite easily), due to the fear tha...

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Although no one knows what Shakespeare intended Caliban to be, it is clear that he used no single idea or figure as Caliban's model. ... Dryden and Davenant's changes to Shakespeare's original continued to influence the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century critics. ... Since people in that day firmly believed man as a rational animal who can and should control his baser passions, Caliban, the epitome of the darkest side of human nature, naturally earned no sympathy or appreciation. ... With the publication of Shakespeare's original text, people saw a kinder, gentler Calib...

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Exploring a ruthless reality, William Shakespeare's Macbeth highlights human nature's desire for power, and the lengths one will go to obtain it. ... Through the author's use of characterization, Macbeth is shown spiraling into paranoia and fear, induced by his ambition, "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition". ... Lady Macbeth's initial influence on Macbeth exposes his true side of evil, and as the plot develops he no longer relies on his "dearest chuck", as she can no longer support him. ... This wrong-doing sends M...

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Both Shakespeare and Sophocles clearly attack the conventional patriarchal biases that women are associated with tenderness and love. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth serves as a complete counterexample against those biases. ... Once again, in Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth serves as a radical counterexample disproving this bias. ... "Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. ... Lady Macbeth will by no means follow her husband. ...

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The value of woman in the Elizabethan and 21st society is elucidated through comparing Shakespeare's and Nelson's representation of Desi and Desdemona. ... The little of her remaining sense of identity continues to quaver as Shakespeare makes no reference to her name in Othello's and Brabantio's speeches, depicting her as a possession which is fought over by men. ... In Shakespeare's Othello, the protagonists' supreme motivation to kill Desdemona is to maintain justice and order. Under fear that Desdemona will "betray more men" if she doesn't die, O...

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By participating vicariously in the grief, pain and fear of the tragic hero or heroine, the spectator, in Aristotle's words, experiences pity and fear and is purged. ... Chaucer used the word to signify little more than the turn of the wheel of fortune, against whose force no meaningful effort of man is possible.This reminds us of how Aristoteles defined tragedy, as a drama which concerns better than average people (heroes, kings, gods) who suffer a transition from good fortune to bad fortune, and who speak in an elevated language. In the professional playhouses of the Renaissance and ...

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William Shakespeare's "Othello," illustrates the Venetian society's gender and class hierarchies in seventeenth century renaissance Italy. ... Brabantio disowns her for she goes against his presumptions of "what she feared to look on " [1.3.99] and is the first to plant the doubt of adultery by saying that she will betray other men for having betrayed him. ... The preoccupation with purity creates two extremities of the Angel and the whore, leaving no middle space which the woman could occupy. ... The use of certain words in different contexts by different characters allows for the ...

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The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice (or just Othello for short) was a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare. ... Othello speaks in his defense saying that Desdemona one hundred percent agreed to marry him that there were no tricks involved and that the are both very much in love. ... Once they got to Cyprus they saw their was no battle just a party but Othello and Cassio were to keep watch anyway. ... Lago arguably one of Shakespeare's best villain because he analyzes the fears and weaknesses of the other characters and uses that knowledge to break them. In the play, it glori...

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In Shakespearean terms, a fool is usually a commoner or a clever peasant that uses their skill and wit to out-do those of a higher social status, in that sense, they are historically accurate to the real fools of their time period, but Shakespeare usually portrays his fools as caricatures of their real-life counterparts for dramatic effect, for example; by giving the fool the ability to use magic, Shakespeare created extensive opportunities for distinct and memorable situations to unfold and entertain his audience. ... " because the audience can see that Bottom actually has the head of an...

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Though the Japanese widely regarded Chikamatsu Monzaemon as the "Japanese Shakespeare", that title takes on vast expectations. ... Also, Coxinga does not fear death for his country as he says, "I shall die fighting where my father falls and journey with my parents to the world of the dead" (127). ... In addition, Kanki shows his insecurity toward women when he does not originally agree to the alliance because he fears it will look like his wife controls him psychologically. ... For instance, Chikamatsu gives no specific name to the mother, for it refers to her only in relation to her heroi...

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Huxley the author of Brave New World uses Shakespeare deliberately as it brings out emotion and reactions and uniformity needed for stability. The language of Shakespeare brings out such emotions as love, ecstasy, ambition, jealousy and suffering. ... Through this use of Shakespeare, Huxley lends toward a society, which crave without any moral or spiritual commitment. ... There are no more challenges, no self denial, or passion, or nobility, or heroism and no knowledge of "Time and Death and God" Huxley through contrast shows the importance of there being a link no matter how strong with the n...

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