The layout of the stage consisted of five levels. ... However, Shakespeare wrote, produced, and sometimes even acted in his own plays. ... Shakespeare's next great tragedy was Othello, which was a tragedy of jealousy. ... After Othello, Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, a tragedy of ambition (Best). ...
Being his most noteworthy work, The Spanish Tragedy is responsible for the introduction of an abundance of game changing ideals such as "the iambic pentameter, the five act structure, the play within a play, causality, the Machiavellian villain, the soliloquy, the blank verse, and the Revenge Tragedy" (Nance); single handedly opening new doors and paving uncharted roads in Elizabethan Theatre for other writers to follow in the years to come. ... Undoubtedly, Kyd is the one whom these contributions have been relatively attributed to in the world of academia and in the institutionalize...
From Julius Caesar to Macbeth, from Othello to Hamlet, Shakespeare presented at least one machiavel. ... Only after Lear sparks the fire of his ultimate demise, the exiling of both Cordelia and Kent, are the readers presented with the true villainous self of Edmund in his soliloquy in Act I, Scene ii. ... As everyone else is on a downward spiral, Edmund rises higher than all the other characters in King Lear, such as Machiavelli's Prince would act once created by the degeneration of the surrounding Shakespearian roles. ... When the prince needs to be deceitful, though, he must not appea...
From Julius Caesar to Macbeth, from Othello to Hamlet, Shakespeare presented at least one machiavel. ... Only after Lear sparks the fire of his ultimate demise, the exiling of both Cordelia and Kent, are the readers presented with the true villainous self of Edmund in his soliloquy in Act I, Scene ii. ... As everyone else is on a downward spiral, Edmund rises higher than all the other characters in King Lear, such as Machiavelli's Prince would act once created by the degeneration of the surrounding Shakespearian roles. ... When the prince needs to be deceitful, though, he must not appea...
