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    you should make brief notes to gain an understanding of each topic. Topics: 17th Century England 1. When Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear’‚ British society was experiencing a shift from Medieval times to the Renaissance. What was the Renaissance? 2. When Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear’‚ there was also a transition from feudalism to capitalism taking place. a) What is feudalism? b) What is capitalism? 3. ‘King Lear’ was set in a remote period of British history. It is supposedly set in a pre-Christian

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    Bennett 1 Travis Bennett Miss Rice English 10 T/A 1 June 2012 The Life of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a famous playwright and poet. He is most famous for his tragedy called “Romeo and Juliet”. Many students across the United States read or watch this play still today. Shakespeare lived a very unique life. Shakespeare was baptized on April 26‚ 1564 (William 322). No one is absolutely sure when he was actually born. It is guessed that he was born on April 23‚ 1564 since

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    of the Moth’ To live and to die are the two sides of the same coin. Death is natural; yet‚ it is the subject of utmost contemplation. No one knows what death is like but everyone can feel its power‚ its magnitude and its presence. Life and death almost seem like riddles that most humans are incapable of comprehending and answering. Virginia Woolf‚ in her essay ‘The death of the moth’‚ has confronted this very issue- the vitality of life and the force of death. In this part narrative and part

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    Why Study Shakespeare? 1. Why is Shakespeare so revered? At the time he was writing and alive‚ Shakespeare created a whole new branch if literature. His satire humour and appropriation of texts challenged values and question what was really right and wrong. For some part this created great tension in regard to his works but Shakespeare took risks that no other writer was willing to and they obviously paid off. He illuminates the human experiences and sums up explores dozens of emotions all in one

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    Shakespeare and Masculine Hegemony The sociological notion that the hierarchy of society is habitually patriarchal‚ an idea formally named “masculine hegemony”1‚ is influenced by literature beginning as early as the Medieval times and remains unchallenged until the appearance of the works of William Shakespeare in the heat of the English Renaissance. Masculine hegemony as a concept arises from the prison writings of Marxist scholar Antonio Gramsci meanwhile he was imprisoned within a fascist

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    11/14/13 Shakespeare’s otherness in Othello Shakespeare when writing Othello uses many different underlying themes for the reader to try and pick up on. One of the biggest is otherness. Otherness is defined as the quality or condition of being other or different‚ especially if exotic or strange. Shakespeare throws at the reader some interesting topics to think about race‚ a handkerchief‚ feminism‚ and many more. All these different topics Shakespeare wants the reader to pay attention to are all

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    lies about income‚ the stench of musk cologne‚ or the ever-popular use of the love poem‚ men strive to appeal to women with the intent to see his way to her heart. William Shakespeare‚ a man who‚ based on his works‚ was full of passion for the opposite sex – whether it had been honest love or perverse lust. Nonetheless‚ Shakespeare‚ like most men‚ wished to charm women. With this having been so‚ Shakespeare’s weapon of choice to be inwrought to a woman’s heart was the powerful love poem. He understood

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    sexual propensity for one’s own sex; of or involving sexual activity with a member of one’s own sex‚ or between individuals of the same sex” (“homosexual”). The use of the term homosexual in this manner was first used in 1892‚ over 270 years after Shakespeare was alive

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    Gender Roles in Shakespeare It is a peculiar feature of Shakespeare’s plays that they both participate in and reflect the ideas of gender roles in Western society. To the extent that they reflect existing notions about the ’proper’ roles of men and women‚ they can be said to be a product of their society. However‚ since they have been studied‚ performed‚ and taught for five hundred years‚ they may be seen as formative of contemporary notions about the relationships between males

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    Shakespeare and Today Essay The Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth‚ though written over 400 years ago‚ still has relevance to today’s modern society. These are connected through the issues in the text such as the idea of revenge and the theme of appearance vs reality‚ the conventions of tragedy seen through Macbeth‚ context‚ language techniques‚ dramatic techniques and characterisation. Revenge‚ a theme which occurs frequently throughout Macbeth‚ creates a connection between Shakespeare’s era several

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