"Shakespeare wrote his first play in 1592. ... These two men later published the first complete edition of Shakespeare's play, after Shakespeare's death (Timeline). ... After many comedies, Shakespeare wrote the Roman tragedy Julius Caesar. Although many stories had been done about Caesar, and the story was a legend in England, Shakespeare's version surprised many people by its originality (Timeline). The play centers on Marcus Brutus, Caesar's friend, who eventually kills Caesar. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Antony and Cleopatra is a historical play by William Shakespeare first performed in 1607 or 1608 and first printed in 1623. ... Shakespeare worked closely from this work and astonishing numbers of phrases within Shakespeare's play are taken directly Thomas North's translation of the prose. ... Shakespeare used Roman Empire as the setting of the play. ... Antony is now much older than he was in the period of Julius Caesar and although he was a good politician and an experienced commander, his qualifications seem to vanish now. ... After Antony's death, Caesar takes Cleopatra pr...

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Before Shakespeare's formation and death he was just an ordinary poet among many others. ... In 1592, at the start of Shakespeare's career, a well-known writer at the time named Robert Green insulted Shakespeare by naming him an "upstart crow". ... If seen from a more positive perspective, this gave Shakespeare a huge opportunity and caused his popularity to increase, this lead Shakespeare to be taken more seriously and people were beginning to get influenced to giving Shakespeare interest because it implied that regardless of his education and his class, Shakespeare was ca...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Shakespeare was clearly influenced by his race. ... In addition, magic cures are given in All's Well, evil curses are chanted in Richard III, and prophecies are told in Julius Caesar. ... However, Shakespeare's happy enthusiasm didn't last. ... Shakespeare, however, didn't end his days in mental gloom. ... William Shakespeare was a genius. ...

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From Julius Caesar to Macbeth, from Othello to Hamlet, Shakespeare presented at least one machiavel. ... Of all of Shakespeare's plays, King Lear contains Machiavellism in the villain aspect and one can say that Edmund is this type of tragic Shakespearian villain. ... Shakespeare uses a machiavel to commence, irritate, and end the problems in his tragedies. ... Edmund's use of degeneration prevails throughout Shakespeare's tragedy. ... Shakespeare's villain Edmund no doubt has selfish and sinful qualities about him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

From Julius Caesar to Macbeth, from Othello to Hamlet, Shakespeare presented at least one machiavel. ... Of all of Shakespeare's plays, King Lear contains Machiavellism in the villain aspect and one can say that Edmund is this type of tragic Shakespearian villain. ... Shakespeare uses a machiavel to commence, irritate, and end the problems in his tragedies. ... Edmund's use of degeneration prevails throughout Shakespeare's tragedy. ... Shakespeare's villain Edmund no doubt has selfish and sinful qualities about him. ...

• Word Count: 1654
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"As You Like It" was written by William Shakespeare. ... And in 1599, a thirty-five-year-old playwright named William Shakespeare was enjoying his prosperity as one of the most successful people working in the London theatre. ... As You Like It was written in this year, just after Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and Julius Caesar, and just before the writing of Hamlet in 1600. Unlike many of Shakespeare's plays, As You Like It seems to contain few references to the world outside the theatre; unlike the political history Shakespeare reworked in his "history plays," or the commentaries ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Women of Shakespeare Women in Shakespeare's plays were not of importance, compared to the male characters. ... In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet Capulet to me seems to be the most tragic of all Shakespeare's women characters. ... In Julius Caesar, Brutus' wife, Portia did not display herself very much in the play. ... People should not die for love, but in Shakespeare's plays, it seems so. ...

• Word Count: 1287
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• Grade Level: High School