William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon."
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He wanted Othello to command Venice's forces in the war against the Turks.
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Before meeting Juliet, Romeo is overly obsessed with Rosaline and he is sad that she vowed to never marry. However, after he...
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He is impulsive, passionate, immature, and naive.
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Don Armado in Love's Labour's Lost says this: "Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain,...
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Desdemona says that Othello was not the one that killed her. This reveals that even though he lost trust in her and betrayed her...
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No, but he especially appealed to the groundlings (penny-knaves) of London with the use of bawdy jokes, bloody fight scenes, and...
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Portia's lady-in-waiting or maid is Nerissa. Portia doesn't see Nerissa as her maid as they are good friends and have been for...
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Being yelled at by my mom
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Within the context of the play, the death of the two principal characters is all-important since the action or plot of the play...
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English currency in Shakespeare's time was the same as it was up to 1971. It was based on a pound of silver, divided into 20...
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The Globe opened in 1599.
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In the play Julius Caesar, I don't know. In reality he was bald headed, lean and had a few wrinkles.
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He thinks it is because Ophelia, on Polonius's orders, spurned Hamlet's amatory advances.
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(Hamlet is a famous play written by William Shakespeare. It is also a name for a small village.) The character Hamlet achieves...
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He wrote it for the people, he wanted them to be impressed of his work?
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Launcelot Gobbo (a clown, first Shylock's servant and then Bassanio's) says this to Gobbo, his father in The Merchant of Venice...
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By saying famously "Oh brave new world, that has such creatures in it!"
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For the same reason lumber is important to a carpenter and bytes are important to computer programmers. Words are the stuff that...
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The messenger, Friar John, ended up quarantined in a plague-house.
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Tybalt is a Capulet and Mercutio is neither a Capulet nor a Montague. Mercutio is a close friend of Romeo and Benvolio. Mercutio...
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Shakespeare only uses the weird word "gorbellied" once, in Henry IV Part 1, when Falstaff says in Act II Scene 2. It means a fat...
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They could only be made by acoustic means. A cannon was a sound effect in Henry VIII (there was probably one in Hamlet also). It...
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Hard to say. We hear Romeo say what he thinks of Juliet ("I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.") then our attention is drawn...
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He is extremely romantic, impetuous, honourable, kind and witty.
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By compressing the events of the story, Shakespeare was able to give it a breathlessness that makes us think of Romeo and Juliet...
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Francis Meres, in his Palladis Tamia of 1598, which discusses and names a large number of English writers, including Shakespeare,...
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After Merucio's death, Capulet decides to marry Juliet to Paris, not knowing that she had secretly married Romeo. So Juliet gets...
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Shakespeare's works have been a major influence on subsequent theatre. Not only did Shakespeare create some of the most admired...
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Elizabeth and Shakespeare During the Golden AgeThe Elizabethan era or Golden Age is synonymous with the reign of Elizabeth I. The...
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It's interesting. The conflict seems very much a petty thing. Neither the Montague or Capulet families REALLY understand the...
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William Shakespeare is not known to have played an instrument.
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In Juliet's soliloquy, she asks herself why does Romeo have to bear the name of Montague. Fore if she were to love him without...
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The line is Frailty thy name is woman, NOT vanity and it is from Hamlet.
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She may have met him, since many of his plays were performed during her reign, and a few under special circumstances were...
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Not really. He's just jealous and a vicious social climber.
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yeah ... hey is crazy as hell
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14 lines in all sonnets, regardless of the poet.
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Macduff in the play and King Malcolm III (d. November 13, 1093) according to the historical record are the killers of Macbeth (d....
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William Shakespeare started writing tragedies because he thought the tragic plots used by other English writers were lacking...
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I studied Shakespeare in University and don't ever remember reading he went to jail. In looking through the various short...
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Franco Zeffirelli
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Shakspeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets all together.
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He was good at writing Plays and poems.
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Henry IV Part II, Act 2, Scene 1
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Elizabethian audiences loved elaborate sword-play, and a stage direction such as 'they fight' tells little of what might have...
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Shakespeare is still so popular because all of his works are so classic and unforgettable. All of his works are rather...
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The two periods in William Shakespeares lifetime, were the Elizabethan period and the Jacobean Period The two periods in William...
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Paris is the person that wants to marry Juliet
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Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe was stabbed to death in a tavern and many rumours have developed surrounding his death as he was...
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Two servants of the Capulet household, Sampson and Gregory, see two servants from the Montague household, Abraham and Balthazar,...
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You could writefive paragraphs denouncing the idiocy of their duo suicide...
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Shakespeare had the misfortune of living at a time when London was tormented by the plague. In addition, medicine hadn't...
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'Yellow Sky', 'Forbidden Planet' and 'Prospero's Books' are based on the 'Tempest'. Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran' is based on 'King...
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Because the best bed was in the guest room for guests and visitors. The second best bed was always shared by the husband and...
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There's no evidence to suggest this.
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At first, He merely feigns it to plot his revenge on the "smiling damned villain" Claudius. There is a "method in his madness",...
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It means to be without a woman. The phrase only appears once in Shakespeare, in an unimportant speech in The Tempest, and is...
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the shrew. as in the taming of the shrew.
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Macbeth
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Shakespeare had three children - Susanna and twins: Hamnet and Judith.Susanna died as of natural old age.Some people think that...
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We don't exactly know this because we don't exactly know which of his plays was the first, and we do not know exactly when he...
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The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust website says this:"At the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, which is the headquarters...
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An example is in the first act is when Romeo says: "Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first...
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Such a question naturally will get different opinions from different people. People will tend to name the play or plays they know...
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It meant the same to Shakespeare as it does to you. "Constant" means continuous, unchanging. You know, like "I am a man of...
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Shakespeare had no great-grandchildren. He was born in Stratford Upon Avon which is the place which the Teletubbies come from. ...
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Shakespeare's play "MacBeth" is the earliest known work of literature to contain the word "assassination," but it's probable that...
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Shakespeare became rich by working as an actor during the Elizabethan Era.
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The phrase "All that glisters is not gold" comes from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene VII. In a sub-plot of...
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He booked a room in a hotel in all likelihood.
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Daylight Hours - Apex
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somewhere in act 3 when he says i came i saw i conquer or something along those lines
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At that time the marriage was unusual in that Anne was much older than William.
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No one "chooses" such a profession, it chooses them. We can only speculate on what induced Shakespeare to start writing. Perhaps...
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Hamlet's father was murdered by his own brother (Hamlet's uncle), Claudius. Claudius then wooed and married Hamlet's mother...
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Don Pedro agrees to talk to Leonato about getting permission for Claudio and Hero to be married. And he does this, successfully.
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No. He is far too 'wild and woolly' to be associated with neoclassicism, which attaches great importance to orderliness. What's...
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in twelfth night there is lots of illusion, disguise and deception - the plot of malvolio - viola dressing up as cesario -...
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Yes, William is married. In '87 he dated actress Nia Peeples...
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Shylock agrees to lend Antonio three thousand ducats for three months without interest, provided that if Antonio fails to pay on...
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In my opinion it is the first "chick flick"I found it boring but my Wife (at the time) Loved it.If you want boys to react well to...
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In loving memory of Romeo Montague who died suddenly by committing suicide by poison in the Capulet Monument next to his dead...
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The verse "All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told. Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold....
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Mercutio is a foil to Romeo because he makes a lot of jokes and puns about love, whereas Romeo acts so serious about it. (with...
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Juliet's garden to listen to her.
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The word "cot" is our word "cottage" and the word "quean" is from the same root as our word "queen". Both "quean" and "queen" are...
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