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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Romeo takes being in love seriously. Mercutio doesn't.
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In Taming of the Shrew there is an "Induction" which has the play being performed for a drunk called Christopher Sly. Shakespeare...
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It was called New Place, in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Unfortunately the man who owned it in the eighteenth...
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You should look at one of the contemporary portraits of Shakespeare (the Drousehout engraving or his monument in Stratford...
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In 1623, almost all of the plays we attribute to Shakespeare were published in a large and lavish book by two former actors in...
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As far as we can tell, Shakespeare was associated for the whole of his professional life with the Burbages and their theatre...
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Actually the common wisdom now credits with two plays more than the 36 which were in the First Folio, making a total of 38. Some...
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It is hard to know in what order Shakespeare's plays were written, or whether he had coined some words in conversation before...
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For two reasons. First, the source--a ghost is pretty weird and could be a hallucination or a vision implanted by the devil....
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Several members of the senate wanted Julius dead and they formed a coalition to kill him, as they thought that assassination was...
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The witches from Shakespeare's play, Macbeth. This is the chorus while they are dropping ingredients into their cauldron.
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i like to get drunk and bang
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He doesn't think Macduff can kill him because he went to the witches for the second time and they told him that nobody born from...
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Hamlet. It's one long string of famous quotations.
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On the one hand Brutus might be considered as ignoble; early in the play he shows what might be considered as lacking...
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molly dies in train crash and reveals that Kevin is the dad of tyrons baby boy jack
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Yes, Mercutio was there.
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the fist one was the original but the second was a modern version of the old one because it burnt down
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Hamlet, attempting to convince everyone that he is crazy, acts a little strange, as though he has a plan in mind.
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No, they were played by all men.
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to audiences
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Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.
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Yes you can, and are you doing your homework?he is gay
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The story a midsummers knight dream is a piece of dodo that i burned it and ejaculated my semen on to its burning ashes.
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by Brutus . he killed Caesar by stabbing.
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write plays/sonatas
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Juliet, of course! The reason he went there was to see Rosaline but as soon as he lays eyes on Juliet he's crazy about her and...
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William John Swainson was born on October 8, 1789.
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He was a hairdresser for the theatre before he became a playwright.
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Fate is the underlying theme. It is an ever-present topic in the play and controls all aspects of Romeo's and Juliet's...
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Dead Paris (killed by Romeo), dead Romeo (poisoned himself), and Friar Lawrence, who soon leaves because he is afraid of being...
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They had 3 children together. They had a daughter named Susanna and then twins (a son and a daughter) Hamnet and Judith.
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Michael Montague, Baron Montague of Oxford died on November 5th 1999. He was 67 years, 7 months and 26 days old when he died.
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Hamlet is:1. The name of a play by Shakespeare2. The main character in that play3. The name of the father of the main character...
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He was about thirty-five.
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Venus and Adonis is one. The Rape of Lucrece is another.
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John William Dawson was born on October 13, 1820.
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It is difficult for us to estimate how popular plays were in Shakespeare's day. One source is the diary of Philip Henslowe. Some...
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I have not heard of, and cannot find a reference to a theatre called "William Shakespeare Theatre" which is odd, considering how...
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Hamlet is supposed to wait for Claudius "in the hall". The text does not tell us more. Where Claudius was in the hall (sitting in...
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The Taming of the Shrew is an adaptation of an older play The Taming of a Shrew, by an unknown author, published in 1594.
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No. He was off mourning the loss of Rosaline. He comes after the fray has been ended by the 'Prince'.
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Gee, that's like asking what someone did before they were born! Hamlet does nothing before the play begins or else the play would...
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Sometime before 1592. It was printed with a different title in 1594, by which time it had already been played several times....
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He lived in England all his life, from 1564 to 1616. There are seven years when we have no record of him (1585-1592); he may have...
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It's highly unlikely that he did! During the English Renaissance poems would have been circulated discreetly amongst groups of...
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Romeo and JulietA Midsummer Night's DreamKing Lear(?)
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Susanna Haavisto was born on October 20, 1957.
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On the "platform" of Elsinore. The "platform" is the catwalk at the top of the castle walls where the defenders stand to shoot at...
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His famous first play of cause!
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Which one? The one in Act One or the one in Act Three or the one in Act Five, or the feud which started it all?
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William Shakespeare's Life1564: William Shakespeare is born in Stratford, England upon Avon to local John and Mary Shakespeare....
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His plays were very popular when he was alive and were performed at the Globe Thaetre. People sat through the plays in the open...
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It wasn't. They are two distinctly different theatres. The Rose is the earlier one, being built in the late 1580's. The Globe was...
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Yes, it's one of his later plays, called Romances. It has an incredibly complex plot, a number of good song lyrics and a surprise...
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The Prologue says that the subject of the play "is now the two hours' traffic of our stage." However, when staged from an uncut...
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A tradition started in 1709 holds that he played the Ghost. We have no evidence of this but it is plausible enough. According to...
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It needs to have an arras, which is a curtain or tapestry, for Polonius to stand behind. In some productions, this is represented...
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There are two plotlines, each with their own set of tensions which drive the play's plot. On the one hand we have the tension...
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"Good friend for Jesus sake forebear, to dig he dust encloased heare.Blese be ye man that spares hes stones, and curst be he that...
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No. No relation.
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142.67 kilometres (88.65 miles)
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Romeo is the boy and Juliet is the girl.
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Othello is the main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.
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When Shakespeare started writing plays, Elizabeth I was Queen of England.
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He did it by the Lord Jesus Christ
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She teases Juliet when she comes back with the Romeo's message.
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Shakespeare wrote an average of 1.5 plays each year.
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Three quatrains and a couplet
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he puts them by the sleeping guards of the king in order to frame them.
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The musical Kiss Me Kate with songs by Cole Porter was based on The Taming of the Shrew which contains the line "Kiss me, Kate!"
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There's a lot of Act 1 and a lot of metaphors in it. Here's one: "Romeo: He that is strucken blind cannot forget the precious...
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Banquo. Then later on Lady Macduff, the Macduff children and household.
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Jet Song
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Don Pedro has gone to ask Leonato whether Claudio can marry Hero (Yenta the Matchmaker is apparently unavailable at this time)....
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yes bacause Tybalt started the fight and romeo tried to stop it and he didnt kill mercutio
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Nobody called Shakespeare an "upset crow". Robert Greene, in a pamphlet called "Greene's Groatsworth of Wit" called him an...
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Hamlet isn't buried. He dies at the end and is carried out of the room respectfully.
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because he will do anything for his friend
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River Thames, the natural waterway in the UK
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Because Romeo says That he loves Tybalt Because they are Family because Romeo Married Juliet. Thus Juliet and Tybalt are Cousins.
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He thought it would be better for his family because he could make more money in London
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What? Why? How?1. What reasons do Laertes and Polonius givefor their command to Ophelia to stop seeingHamlet? Are they...
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0 because women were not allowed to be actors because it was "too revealing"
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The only two images of Shakespeare for which we have clear contemporary approval are his memorial monument in Stratford, which is...
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They are very popular, and very important.
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