During Elizabethan times, 1550-1625, a great writer's explosive way of writing brought forth a new life to poetry. This outstanding poet, author and playwright, was William Shakespeare. These highly subjective sonnets are wonderful tales full of love, deception, and betrayal. Although it is presumable that Shakespeare did write these sonnets about his own life, some experts are still puzzled by the possibility of the poetry being based in fiction. However, if one man can so exquisitely write fictional stories about love and still include a controversial issue in them, then where do we...

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He elucidates this in the light of Titania's speech in act two, scene one in which she recites the effects her fight with Oberon has on the climate: "The function of such an extended treatment of the climate's inconsistency is to remind us that the effects of Titania's and Oberon's bickering are not confined to the metaphysical world. ...

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Despite the many thematic references to "dreams- and the fantastic setting of the Athenian forest, the play also contains a fair amount of commentary on Shakespeare's contemporary English world. ...

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