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    Controversy Of Shakespeare

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    DeVere or Shakespeare?         Abstract:  The debate over the legitimacy of the authorship of Shakespearean works has been disputed for centuries. While many scholars have held beliefs that Shakespeare's works have been written by figures such as Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, William Stanley, and others, the most heated debate today is between William Shakespeare and Edward DeVere, the Earl of Oxford. Each side of this debate has many followers, the Stratfordians, or those who claim Shakespeare

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    Shakespeare Women

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    inferior of men. However, William Shakespeare as brilliant in his works by using women as supporting characters with very important roles. In this way, he showed women on the surface as being of little to no importance, yet when a reader delves deeper into the context, they will find the true importance of these female characters. As once stated by John Ruskin - “an English artist and a leading art critic of the Victorian era”(TheFamousPeople.com Editors) - “Shakespeare has no heroes’ only heroines.”

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    William Shakespeare

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    in a name? Would not a rose by any other name smell as sweet?” William Shakespeare, a name we have all heard at some point, but who is he? William Shakespeare, the man who has influenced our culture through his various literary works. What is the truth behind the brilliant man whom penned the renowned words filling the pages of the ever significant Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, or The Tempest? William Shakespeare was born William Shakspere. Aside from contemporary and popular belief

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    Shakespeare Relevance

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    Donovan Hanson May 10th, 2016 Mrs. Jones EA 5.2 Shakespeare's Relevance William Shakespeare has been one of the most influential poets in history and has been called the universal philosopher. Shakespeare is still relevant today being that people say that he can be a roadmap to humans. Some people claim that his plays are forced upon students and they will hate Shakespeare. While this may be true for elementary students, ninth-graders benefit by studying about his works since they are capable.

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    Shakespeare as a Real Man in Shakespeare in Love Shakespeare has been presented in myriad versions, from the traditional to the almost unrecognizable. Directors and actors have adapted him as long as his plays have been performed. Some feel that without Shakespeare´s original poetry, audiences are robbed of the opportunity to experience the cleverness, poetry, and majesty of the language - Shakespeare´s genius. Others feel that modern adaptations don´t challenge viewers

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    theme in many classic works. In Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, the initial setting is in the court, however, the characters are soon introduced to the Forest of Ardenne where the “magic” and the differences of the natural world are clear. Shakespeare uses this juxtaposition of settings to contrast the values of each environment and create resolution for all characters at the end of the play. In the second scene of AYLI, it is established that Duke Senior, Rosalind’s father, has been banished

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    Shakespeare Mystery

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    William Shakespeare, considered by many as one of the greatest writers of all history, has an aura of mystery surrounding his legacy. Shakespeare supposedly wrote 154 sonnets, 38 plays, two narrative poems and other works. Every great author knows how to inject mystery into his books, however, Shakespeare managed to not only include mystery in his wondrous works, but he has created a mystery for hundreds of years after his death. Intriguingly, the true authorship of his works continue to elude our

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    Shakespeare critic and Yale humanities professor, Harold Bloom, asserts that Shakespeare is the metaphorical “inventor of man.” Bloom writes: The plays remain the outward limit of human achievement: aesthetically, cognitively, in certain ways morally, even spiritually. They abide beyond the end of the mind’s reach, we cannot catch up to them. Shakespeare will go on explaining us, in part because, he invented us” (pp. 19-20). Bloom’s audacious evaluation of Shakespeare has been echoed throughout

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    At the end of act one, Shakespeare wrote a private soliloquy for Iago. Its purpose is for the audience to know what he is planning, as it sets the stage for the rest of the play: the plot is based upon Iago’s plan. This creates tension and anticipation as we are waiting to see whether the plan works or not, and what the consequences of the plan are. Throughout the soliloquy, Iago speaks in Blank Verse as opposed to prose. Blank Verse is what was used for the important people, for example the

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    shakespeare influences

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    RESEARCH TOPIC An Analytic Review Of Shakespearean Influence On Faulkner 's Tragedy RESEARCH QUESTION How Shakespeare tragic patterns influenced on William Faulkner 's writings? NAME: SYEDA AMBREEN FATIMA FATHER’S NAME: SYED HASAN AKHTER SEAT NO: 1315793 ENROLMENT NO: 2013/ENG/M.A(LIT)/15681 DATE OF SUBMISSION: 28TH NOV 2013 SUBMITTED TO: MISS SAMREEN HUMAYUN This

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