Has your study of King Lear and its reception in a range of contexts lead you to believe the play supports or sabotages structures of power? ... Structures of power are intrinsic to the play King Lear and its function as a seventeenth century power play. ... Similarly, The Bondi Production of 2002, directed by Tanya Benny emphasises the issue of power structures through a feminist interpretation. ... As seen in Act one, scene one, by Lear believing that he held a God-like status, he lives in a parallel world and is morally blinded by his foibles, he wants to abdicate his power, yet maintai...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jealousy and Racism The Shakespearean tragedy Othello addresses jealousy and racism during the Shakespearean Era. We as a modern day American society continue to struggle with these same issues. Othello was supposedly written during the early seventeenth century. Speculations have been dra...

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The sentence structure within this story relates to rhyming. I believe he was kind of showing off within this sonnet because not only did this man know how to write poetry, he knew the details that came along with it as with the sentence structure and rhyming. Shakespeare not only know how to write poetry while using sentence structure, he also uses imagery in his sonnet. ... The sonnet is well structured from it being parallel and each couplet standing in complete sentences. ... The repetitions at the beginning of each part of the sonnet resemble a structure that Shakespeare seems to follow...

• Word Count: 1745
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: High School

To a contemporary audience, harmony and structure in society are strongly shaped by the moral exercise of authority. ... Abuse of power holds negative implications to social structure in all contexts, even to the modern democratic society which depends on its leaders to make wise decisions. ... Following both the major plot of King Lear's family, and the parallel plot of Gloucester's family, the parental flaws of the patriarch's King Lear and Gloucester become evident, becoming the catalysts to the domestic anarchy to follow. ...

• Word Count: 1414
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Structure The structure of the play in both adaptations is richly complicated due to the tragic basis of Shakespeare's play. ... The structure of the play depends on the separation of the tragedy in 5 Acts. ... The structure of Act 4 and Act 5 are similar in execution for both productions. ... "Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise- (I, v, 49) Language One aspect of the play, "King Lear- that distinguishes is as being unique is the complex and varying linguistic structure. ...

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Altering the philosophies of Hamlet, abandoning both, structure and development within the parameters of the stage, creating an importance for the underdog, instead of monitoring life from the top, Stoppard took Shakepeare's idea and made it new and inviting to the contemporary age. ... It paralleled the social context of the Seventeenth Century, where the general belief was that things occurred for distinct reasons, and the eventual -right-turning of the hierarchy triangle would set things back to normal. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare use parallel structure of the main plot and subplot that mirror each other like throughout the play. ... The parallel structure continues throughout the play as Lear reconcile with Cordelier and Gloucester with Edgar. ... In Act 1, scene2, show the parallel structure of the subplot and the main plot. ...

• Word Count: 3449
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• Grade Level: High School

There are similarities too, however, in the two texts in the distinct hierarchy present in the structure of the opposing sides/families. ... The parallels between the two are evident through their charismatic beauty and also through the fact that at stages they are dominated by men as a result of the physical power they hold over them. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A Critical Analysis of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" William Shakespeare, born in 1594, is one of the greatest writers in literature. He dies in 1616 after completing many sonnets and plays. One of which is "A Midsummer Night's Dream." They say that this play is the most purely romantic of Shakespeare's comedies. The themes of the play are dreams and reality, love and magic. ...

• Word Count: 2837
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School