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    Was Shakespeare Really in Love? William Shakespeare is arguably one of the best playwrights of all time, and he is certainly one of the most well-known writers in the history of literature. Shakespeare is a classic example of how art and literature can touch so many people’s lives and hearts. His work has been enjoyed by millions of people for four hundred years, and today, his plays are still being performed daily all over the world. He wrote a total of thirty-seven plays and 154 sonnets

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    The birth date of Shakespeare is uncertain but he was baptized on April 26, 1564. He is the son of John Shakespeare, who was an alderman and a successful glover, and of Mary Arden, the daughter of an afluent landowner. He was the third child of eight and was the oldest surviving one. He went to the King's New School in Stratford. The school he was in provided intensive education in grammar based upon Latin classical authors. This may have been what motivated him on his career. If not, it still served

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    William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, a shoemaker and a daughter of an affluent farmer in 1564. He was born on April 23, and baptised two days later. William attended the local grammar school, the King's Scchool. He was born and lived in a smal town called Stratford-upon-Avon about 100 miles west of London. Shakespeare had three younger brothers and two older sisters. Shakespeare never attended University. Because of the lack of records of when Shakespeare was a child

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    Poe Vs Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe were both renowned poets. The were both well-known for their poems surrounding the topic of love, among several other aspects of their lives. Their personal experiences of love create differing perspectives of love to each man in these poems. Shakespeare and Poe both do have ideas that come together to form a major idea. By comparing these two celebrated poems of love one can create their own idea of love. In Shakespeare’s poem, Sonnet 18, he describes

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    The tragedy and the deaths of the two lovers caused by their loving going against their parents and the society their parent represent. There is the historical sense which the audience of Shakespeare time knew, but also the modem audience for example Asians would relate to. Firstly the idea of love was not accepted in the 16th centre by most people. It was actually seen as an illness as for example when Romeo’s father, Montague, uses the word

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    movie ‘Warm Bodies’ by Jonathan Levine, R is the counterpart to Romeo in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. To begin with, R from ‘Warm Bodies’ produced by Jonathan Levine is a justifiably a counterpart character to Romeo from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Shakespeare in the 16th century.

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    well-known plays have one characteristic in common. They were all well written by William Shakespeare, or were they? Today many scholars doubt the authorship of William Shakespeare. With this doubt, many other problems about William Shakespeare begin to arise. The question of Shakespeare’s authorship initiates controversy about whether or not William Shakespeare wrote the famous works by “Shakespeare”. William Shakespeare, the third of eight children born, was born in 1564 from the rural town of Stratford-upon-Avon

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    arc of the action in the drama. Furthermore, he brought the English language to a very prestigious stage after being seen for years as a disdainful language. His sonnets specifically display a brilliant verbal performance with images layered one on top of another in a sensory kind of collage 2 Who was William Shakespeare? William Shakespeare was a genius. He was not a genius according to the modern meaning of the word, which states that a genius is an exceptionally intelligent person or one with exceptional

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    William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and was baptized in the Holy Trinity Church on April 26, 1564. His name can be spelt in many different ways. He got married at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway and had three children, but their third child was the only one that survived infancy. He pursued in his acting career. His first two poems were “Venus and Adonis”, made in 1593, and “The Rape of Lucrece”, made in 1594. He joined Lord Chamberlain’s company of actors in

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    Jose de Alvare AP LIT Dr. Busse 08/14/17 How to Read Literature Like a Professor: by Thomas C. Foster Chapter 1-- Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It's Not) The five parts of a QUEST are The five aspects of the quest are: (a) a quester, (b) a place to go, (c) a stated reason to go there, (d) challenges and trials en route, (e) a real reason to go there. a quester - Percy Jackson a place to go - the underworld and mount olympus The stated reason to go there - to retrieve the stolen lightning

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