To this point in time there was no evidence William even owned a book and there was no evidence of any manuscripts. ... How could such a person write convincingly of court life, foreign intrigues, and affairs of kings and courtiers, subjects of which he was not privileged as a non-aristocrat? ... In contrast, Edward de Vere's death in 1604 would have bar him from being the author of several majestic tragedies believed written latter such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear; the fact that the quality of de Vere's published earlier poetry likely before 1585 is vastly inferior to that...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is a turning point in the book and completely changes the way that Hamlet acts the rest of the play. ... The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, Sword, {th' expectancy} and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mold of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! ... Hamlet and the Ghost his Father don't have a relationship like many other characters in the book but you can see Hamlets love and how ...

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In his book, The Wheel of Fire, he continues this line of thought to conclude that Claudius is a good and gentle king, enmeshed by the chain of causality linking him with his crime. ... At the end of the nunnery scene, Ophelia laments the that a noble mind is here overthrown:/ The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword ( III, i, 153-154). ...

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• Grade Level: High School