By the point of adolescence, arguably every individual in the western world will have heard of William Shakespeare in one way or another- whether it be from a play that was put on by the high school drama department, or merely by seeing his name as they aimlessly flip through HBO and come across "that one Leonardo DiCaprio movie". ... Shakespeare, in a way, is a brand. ... As a result of history's tendency to reinforce this notion of superiority, William Shakespeare has been consistently described as "the greatest writer in the English language", as well as a "pre...

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These ideas are elicited in William Shakespeare's 1611 play 'The Tempest' and Francis Bacon's 1615 essay, 'Of Travel'. ... In Shakespeare's 1611 play, 'The Tempest', the island of 'subtle, tender and delicate temperance,' is characterised with attributes of freedom, disguise and misinterpretation; as Shakespeare's 'green world'.The illusionary portrait of the island thus evokes speculative controversy between the characters. ... Prospero's vision for the island with 'cloud-capped towers and gorgeous palaces&...

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In the movie, "Shakespeare in Love", a young and energetic, William Shakespeare is encouraged by his peers to create a comedy play called "Romeo and Ethel, the pirates daughter", because at the time comedy plays were a big success. ... William obtains this wealth of inspiration for his new play from his new found love, Viola de Lesseps, and through the events that occur in "Shakespeare in Love", the audience can easily see that the play "Romeo and Juliet" and this movie, are parallels of each other. Through the scenarios that happen in William Shakespeare life in sixteenth century England, he ...

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In "Macbeth," a sinister play written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth goes through a change in his personality, morals and values. ... Lady macbeth is one of the three forces that drive Macbeth to his downfall, she is equally as ambitious as her husband but is unable to take action herself, perhaps because of the social constrains at the time(Howard 84).Lady Macbeth is the "spur" in the relationship, her values and morals change drastically through out the play, Shakespeare reveals different stages of her morals, values and different facets of her personality. ... Maroutous states, ...

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Othello, written around 1603, is one of William Shakespeares most well regarded plays. The play, set in the city state of Venice and the island of Cyprus, recounts the demise of a respected Venetian general Othello, after falling victim to the treachery of his ensign Iago, while also being affected ...

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These aspects are present in William Shakespeare's, " The Tempest", and Lord Alfred Tennyson's, "Ulysses". ... Shakespeare's characterisation in Ariels figurative language reminds Prospero of his humanity in which Prospero concludes that there is "the rarer action in virtue than in vengeance". ...

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Furthermore, men who had the advantage of education, contemporary male peer groups and/or male literary forefathers, they could learn and work from, only served to reinforce the exclusively male dominated medium that produced the literary icons of the time One can see that Woolf's argument substantiated by studying the inequalities in educational, financial and social background by comparing herself with another nineteenth century writer, William Wordsworth. ... Here in the plays of William Shakespeare, poems of Edgar Allen Poe, the stories of Jonathan Swift and/or other predominant...

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