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?... " (Irish, 2011) Perseverance can be a form of endurance for both teacher and student as things don't always go to plan and reflection on how to make things better will only make the desired improvements: "Some ideas work right away, but some don't – they need bedding down as both you and your pupils become used to them.... In my experience, when ...

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Petruchio sets out to "woo this wildcat" (1.2, 195), and vows to "tame you, Kate, / And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate / Conformable as other household Kates" (2.1, 273-275), (Marvel 86). ... Kate responds, "Well ta"en, and like a buzzard" (2.1, 205-206). ... But sun it is not, when you say it is not, And the moon changes even as your mind. ... Beatrice is much like Kate in her quick wit. ... So, like Kate, Beatrice stops the charades, and reforms to her role as a wife. ...

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William Shakespeare touches on this issue in a number of his works. ... However, in his play "The Winter's Tale," Shakespeare deviates from the standard to which women were regarded. ... As his sharp tongue stabs at her with insult after insult, she refuses to descend to his adolescent behavior, and declares: "How will this grieve you, When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that You have thus published me! Gentle my lord, You scarce can right me throughly then to say You did mistake" (II.i.714-718). ... Like "time " slowing down for Leontes, the image has also slowed down enough for th...

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"As You like It" was written by William Shakespeare, and published by the Penguin Group in 1963.The play is 138 pages. "As You Like It" is a happy, romantic Shakespearean comedy. ... Except for occasional clouds that threaten the sky temporarily, As You Like It is full of sunshine, love, laughter, and song. ...

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The two great civilizations were bi-polar and they repelled each other like same sides of two magnates . ... Shakespeare presents Rome and Egypt to the audience as complete opposites. ... Shakespeare shows his sympathy with Egyptian world and presents Romans as stern that lack emotion and sympathy. ... Shakespeare does not mention any racism as racism was unknown before Renaissance period. ... Shakespeare represents Cleopatra beauty by letting Enobarbus talk objectively. ...

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Shakespeare proves here to be a master writer. ... Also, when the men fall in love with her, she feels like the "butt of a joke." ... (Scott 381) Fairies, part of the fantasy world, live in the kingdom in the vague, dream-like East. ... The fairies bring the stories to you from the East. ... The lover's fall in and out of love like dolls, and like dolls...

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This outstanding poet, author and playwright, was William Shakespeare. ... Now one will start to age and look like one's mother. ... Here Shakespeare creates an image relating to sex. He presents a new question to her, asking if she does not want children only because she does not like sex. ... This conflict is resolved throughout the sonnet by Shakespeare's mentioning that the beloved is always mild and temperate by her nature and nothing at all like the summer. ...

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Imagine (I said) a father asking his three children: Which of you kids loves me the most?" ... The Lear described in many critical essays sounds less like Shakespeare's monarch than the middle-class recreations of Lear in the nineteenth-century fiction of writers like Balzac and Turgenev. ... Like Jaffa, I try to show that Lear's errors are not, so to speak, vulgar errors; they do not simply proceed from stupidity or lack of thought. ... But as Shakespeare presents it, the problem runs deeper. ... Shakespeare repeats this pattern in Lear's appearances in act 4. ...

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In many ways, Shakespeare was very ahead of his time. ... This town is completely created artistically by the filmmakers, you can't visit it. ... It is a busy and open area, much like the market setting portrayed in the original script, which is also busy. ... They seem like typical American youngsters having fun in their car with the music turned up. ... The scene of the balcony is the second of the love scenes, and as you go through the play they all have things in common that you notice. ...

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Romeo and Juliet is a well-known Shakespeare in which fate plays an important part. ... This is showing how Shakespeare uses fate in his play. ... If you did this it was thought God sent you to hell when you died. ... Reading this quote makes you see how she is feeling, like been in a shut cardboard box and at any moment the bottom opens and you fall down to hell. ... He says if you don't marry Paris on Thursday I will disown you. ...

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How mean you that? No mates for you,/ Unless you were of gentler, milder mold- (I.i.59-69). ... "Rebellious women- were a concern for Englishmen during the time that Shakespeare wrote his plays (Detmer, Shakespeare Quarterly, 273). ... The critics have a good basis for their beliefs when Katherine speaks like this to Hortensio, "To comb your noodle with a three-legged stool,/ And paint your face, and use you like a fool- (I.I.64-65). ... For instance, he tells Baptista " I see you do not mean to part with her, or else you like not of my company- (II.i.63-64), when he knows that the father ...

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When Hal turns against Falstaff it is truly upsetting, a terrible scene, and you see that Hal (now Henry) is a sort of monster. ... You can also argue that Hal has a strategy, his wildness turned majesty is the only possible tactic by which he could assert control. ... You can certainly make the argument that his wildness also allows him a commonality with the "people", allowing them to understand him. ... The play is full of patriotic speeches that show how proud you should be to be English. Shakespeare even uses a Chorus to introduce each act with a glowing, but somewhat misleading, build-up...

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Claire McMurdock 10.A Year 10 'Shakespeare' Assignment 'Romeo and Juliet' Discuss the ways in which Shakespeare creates dramatic tension based around the transformation of Juliet's character. ... Shakespeare uses the Elizabethan times and society to help him do this. ... Juliet will not want her life to be like this. ... He gives her the ultimatum, either marry Paris and be happy or I will disown you and bring you to shame. ... She is not acting like an obedient, innocent young girl acting on her parent's wishes. ...

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For these wealthy people, an evening at Glyndebourne is a social rite, a rare chance to behave like a true English eccentric, ("Smiles of a Summer Night"). ... Performances of Shakespeare's plays are not isolated, unrelated occurrences. ... I will start with a general analysis of the topic related to Shakespeare's text. ... Shakespeare's Puck himself acknowledges that he is the cause of little domestic accidents. ... In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours; I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear," (...

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In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, we discover that Macbeth is a tragic hero. ... At the beginning of the play, Shakespeare defines Macbeth as a hero very clearly. ... She threatens his manhood by saying When you durst do it, then you were a man;/ And to be more than what you were, you would/ Be so much more the man (act I, scene vii, l 49-51). ... He is now considered a man, but he doesn't like the fact that he has killed all these people. ... Like a child, Macbeth attempts to run away from his problems, yet he has no where to go. ...

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This is of course because it would have been highly offensive to the king if you suggested that he had descended from a ruthless murderer of a king. In addition, Shakespeare also knew that James I was extremely interested in witchcraft. ... Like the witches, Lady Macbeth plays an important role in the murder of King Duncan. ... Also like the witches, Lady Macbeth calls upon evil and asks to be filled with cruelty to overcome Macbeth's kind nature. ... One common phrase you could use to defend her is: if someone tells you to jump off a cliff, will you do it? ...

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Shakespeare uses characters, motifs, and tone throughout the novel to portray this theme. The most obvious way that Shakespeare shows the theme is through the characters. ... He is willing to be swayed by his wife, but also has the force of character to follow difficult actions - like killing King Duncan - once he has been convinced. ... [T] Another motif used to exemplify Shakespeare's theme is blood. ... One assumes that Macbeth is bloody just like the soldier. ...

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William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, is one of the greatest love stories of all time. ... Shakespeare made her character a mere thirteen years old, but she acts mature beyond her years. ... When her mother asks her how she feels about marriage, she replies, "I'll look to like, if looking like move; but no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly."... She tells her mother this in hope that she will delay the marriage, "Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies." ... It is very obvious that Shakespeare...

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Macbeth is the first one of the many of Shakespeare's great tragedies. ... Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon. ... Shakespeare finished Macbeth in 1606. ... Macbeth like his wife is loosing contact with reality. ... A great play like Macbeth intertwines a variety of elements into a unified whole. ...

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This becomes an intimate moment between the two, as Emilia is unpinning Desdemona's hair and preparing her for bed (like a mother helping her young daughter). ... Like Emilia, she appears worldly and loves her partner without any reservations, but fully aware of her place in a male-dominated society. ... "I am no strumpet, but of life as honest as you thus abuse me (line 142)." ... Cassio never talks with her about his demotion from Lieutenant, something you would confide in with your partner. ... Again, Shakespeare allows us to view women as they did during the Elizabethan period. ...

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To which her response is: "O speak to me no more; these words like daggers enter my ears"." ... Gertrude constantly tells Paul how "common" Miriam is, and waits up late for him, like his wife, when he stays out late with Miriam, trying to make him feel guilty. Paul even realizes at the end of the novel that his mother has been the root of his failed relationships, and he asserts that "I shall never meet the right woman while you live." ... What have you heard about me?." ... Paul, like Hamlet, assuages his guilty and incestuous feelings by transferring them elsewhere and the main recipients a...

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I like that! ... You"re not like that damned tramp of a brother. ... Tyrone placates him, and offers a change in subject, "God knows, I don't like the subject either. ... It was like walking on the bottom of the sea. ... Why can't you remember you Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. (2059)" The longer the night goes on, and the heavier the drink is felt, the more truth is found in the words of Tyrone and Edmund. ...

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He too is cynical, but in a different way than Guildenstern: while Guildenstern gets disappointed in people for not acting as nobly as he would like, the Player expects them to act badly. ... While Hamlet's main character trait in Shakespeare's play is, perhaps, openness (he can't stop telling the audience what he is thinking) the Hamlet of Stoppard's play is much more mysterious. ... He keeps a hawk-like watch over the castle's inhabitants (who almost universally ignore him) and tries to organize himself by establishing the direction of the wind. ... Both of these are...

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Change Essay For every person who welcomes change, there is someone who wants life and experience to remain unchanged' Did you find this true of the texts you studied? ... This can be found true through an analysis of the texts The poem "In the Park- by Gwen Harwood, The poem "Father and child- by Gwen Harwood, The short story "Sky High- by Hannah Robert, Shakespeare's Othello' and the film "Cruel Intentions- by "Kevin Williamson- The poem In the park' composed by Gwen Harwood presents a significant example ...

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When you first consider Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the first thing to come to mind is, more often than not, the theme of love. ... "Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, /Which mannerly devotion shows in this; /For saints have hands that pilgrims" hands do touch, /And palm to palm is holy palmers" kiss." ... One of the major themes of Shakespeare's imagery is that of light. ... For example, when Paris appeals to Capulet for his consent of marriage to Juliet ("But now my lord, what say you to my suit?")... For the majority of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the most ...

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