William Shakespeare wrote many great short stories and plays. ... Horatio is Hamlet's schoolmate and loyal friend. ... Horatio tells Hamlet what happened and then Hamlet confesses his upset feelings of his mother remarrying after his father's death. Meanwhile, Laertes and Polonius tell Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet, because Hamlet is deeply in love with her. ... Claudius then requests that Hamlet should be killed, so Claudius then poisons Hamlet's drink. ...

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The bard was very talented, being able to produce play after play in very short periods of time. What is even more amazing is in those short lengths of time, he wrote beautiful poetry and prose, and many quotations and common phrases have been adopted in everyday language today. ... (Hamlet, IV.v.191-4) Her forlorn for Hamlet results in a state of mental upset and eventually leads to her death by drowning. ... (Hamlet V.ii.58). ... Furthermore, it is common for a teenager to have a shorter attention span than is average, and as such, comedy may appeal to high school students more than a t...

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To Sleep Perchance, To Dream: Shakespeare's Use Of Dream and Sleep Motifs To Create The Gothic Reality Although Shakespeare's contribution to the Gothic novel was acknowledged by Horace Walpole in the preface to the Second Edition of "The Castle of Otranto," "shelter[ing] my own daring under the cannon of the brightest genius in the country" (Walpole 13), the extent to which the Gothic sensibility informs so many of Shakespeare's plays has only recently been conceded by many mainstream scholars. This is hardly surprising considering Gothic fiction's entr...

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His "Hamlet" was mimicked in Disney's classic "The Lion King," Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," and Margret Atwood's "Gertrude Talks Back.... Those authors will write essays, papers, short stories, books, plays, etc. based on prior literacy practices that they have built up from their literacy sponsorship and past writings. ...

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