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    honour, ambition and courage- humans still experience these emotions which give Shakespeare a foothold in modern times. Shake and Stir sequenced together an array of modified scenes from Shakespeare’s most iconic plays, to implore dramatic meaning: Shakespearean text can be rendered to engross modern audiences while maintaining its integrity and Elizabethan charm. “Great Shakes” is staged in a graveyard, where three year ten students, Betty, Brock and Ben are incarcerated. However, after appearances from

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    account” (Eliot). The works of Shakespeare are known throughout the world as classic literary pieces. The lessons learned through reading Shakespeare have carried themselves and remain to be true although they have been around for hundreds of years. The style in which William Shakespeare wrote has influenced a great amount of the literature that has been written in the more recent past-- books that are read throughout schools in the United States today. It is necessary to read the work of William Shakespeare

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    How is contrast displayed in Shakespearean drama? Playwright William Shakespeare’s works are not written in the way we normally see poems and plays. His writing often displays the contrast between his works. Shakespeare utilizes contrast in his plays “Measure for Measure” and “Julius Caesar” through his themes and characters to carry out the Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespeare demonstrates the contrast in his works through his non-uniform look on tragic stories. In both plays, Shakespeare’s use of

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    Irregularities in Othello

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    Irregularities in Othello         The Shakespearean tragedy Othello contains various irregularities of time and occurrence which cause the audience to scratch their head in wonder and doubt. Let us analyze some of these shortcomings in this essay.   In the Introduction to The Riverside Shakespeare Frank Kermode explains one of the difficulties in Othello:   Othello murders his wife on the second night in Cyprus. The difficulty, of which Shakespeare was clearly aware, arises

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    experience these emotions and challenges which gives Shakespeare a foothold in modern times (Bruster, 2014). Shake and Stir sequenced together an array of modified scenes from Shakespeare’s most iconic plays, to implore the dramatic meaning that Shakespearean text can be rendered to engross modern audiences while maintaining its integrity and Elizabethan charm. “Great Shakes” is staged in a graveyard, where three year ten students, Betty, Brock and Ben are incarcerated. However, after appearances from

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    Tragic Hero in Othello by William Shakespeare

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    Throughout the story we see Othello show jealousy and envy over what others have. He constantly is fearful of losing what he has (Desdemona). Racial comments were persistently made towards Othello. He is a black hero and a military general. Through hard work and dedication he made his way up in the ranks to reach his position of power and influence. However, at the same time his visual appearance as a black foreigner in Venice immediately causes him to be an outsider. Desdemona’s father, who believes his

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    2. SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY Shakespearean tragedy is the title given to most tragedies written by the playwright William Shakespeare. “Shakespearean tragedy began, roughly speaking, with marked indebtedness to the tragic writing of Marlowe and Kyd: poetry, character, and style from Marlowe; motive, plot, and tragic intensity from Kyd. No evidence suggests Shakespeare was ever particularly aware of or influenced by, Aristotelian theories of tragedy”. (Bevington, 1980) The plays we usually have in mind

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    William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth is riddled with bloody death and treachery, all the delights to be expected from a Shakespearean tragedy. All things considered, Macbeth, with the aid of his wife, is the primary source of death for the duration of the play. The Macbeths are capable of escaping criminal prosecution for a short period, but throughout the play they are incapable of escaping the direct result of their iniquities: guilt. Macbeth and his wife are clearly not void of all remorse; moreover

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    essay, is that which is found within the female characters of Shakespearean tragedies. Despite the patriarchal ways of life during Shakespeare's age, he constantly conveys the ladies of his plays with nothing short of "excellent ... beauty, wit, and virtue." [Doran 135] Doran's article "The Idea of Excellence In Shakespeare" is a detailed work, which engages itself in the wide scope of Shakespearean sonnets and all his theatrical work concerning excellence. Doran says very frankly that due to

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    calls for fairness in Shakespeare’s literature more or less recognizes that in building the character of Hamlet, Shakespeare grows the emotion of compassion and dread of tragedy to us rather than criticize the whole skills and positions. He makes works at the top level of the original arts. He put in that there is something in the dramas very spirit which is at conflict with mind and claims, a certainly creative understanding. Since our chief manuscript in this article is Hamlet we shall base our

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