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    subservient is pervasive in Renaissance literature, Shakespeare challenges this concept in The Winter’s Tale by providing evidence to the contrary. His female characters are able to gain power using different techniques according to their situations. However, these methods vary greatly between the court of the shepherd in Bohemia and Leontes’ court in Sicilia. While women in the royal court gain influence through their use of effective rhetoric, Shakespeare describes that Perdita’s power in the shepherd’s

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    and great personalities. William Shakespeare is one of them because he is famous poet and writer. I chose this great person who has many people because I wanted to know more personal life. Shakespeare is one of the most prominent figures in world literature, if not the most notable of all. It is difficult to identify a more genius literary figure than him. Shakespeare (1564 1616) is the greatest English poet. As an author and he has playwright wonderful. Shakespeare was born on April 26, 1564 in Stratford

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    Thematic Analysis Title According to his critics, the word ‘nothing’ is regarded as one of the most favourite words by Shakespeare and he uses it in innumerable ways in his plays. For example, in The Winter’s Tale when Leontes suspects his wife, Hermione’s character, he says: “Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career Of laughing with a sigh?--a note infallible Of breaking honesty--horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners? wishing

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    family members hurt each other and even, in worst-case scenarios, kill each other over issues as important as protecting another or as petty as fighting over a boy. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and The Winter’s Tale, if family members operate with selfish motives, they hurt the hero and contribute to his fall; but if the family supports each other with only love, the hero can redeem himself from his fall and even succeed in finding lasting happiness.

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    Shakespeare- William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died on april 23, 1616. His parents was John shakespeare and Mary Arden. John shakespeare had many different jobs like selling leather goods, wool, malt and corn. In 1556 He was appointed the borough’s official “ale taster”. John later became a moneylender and held a series of municipal positions, serving for some time as the mayor of stratford (history.com). Mary keep up the house like cleaned, helped take care of the kids. John and mary oldest

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    Polixenes Jealousy

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    Furthermore, Shakespeare probably even sees vices as a beautiful work of nature, as how Polixenes talks to Perdita about the carnations: nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. (4.4.104-7) The word “mean” here might possess double meanings— it might not only refer to the method that nature teaches man to plant and graft, but the word “mean” might also suggest the base quality of man’s meanness and inferiority

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    Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a playwright, actor, and dramatist extraordinaire. Many is not known about Shakespeare such as where he was during the “lost years” and some even question whether William is doing it all by himself. Well, those secrets remain unknown but here are different ones. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. In 1582, when Shakespeare was just 18 years old, he got married to Anne Hathaway, who was eight years older than him. After that, there

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    Shakespeare & Wordsworth William Shakespeare, also known as the "Bard of Avon," is often called England's national poet and considered one of the greatest dramatist if not, the greatest of all time. Shakespeare's works are known throughout the world, but his personal life is shrouded in mystery. We know that William Shakespeare lived between 1564 to 1616. He died on April 23, 1616 in his birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom. Shakespeare was born on the 1564, more than

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    Throughout all of history women have put up a brave fight to have their rights. Many women use authorship as a way to fight against discrimination and public stigmas. Three such women are Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Virginia Woolf. Each of these brave women writes about the need for a change in society, but each authoress has a different style and sometimes even a different view of what needs to change, for a woman to gain her independence. Mary Wollstonecraft has a very bold style and

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    Trickery and Deceit In Much Ado About Nothing by W. Shakespeare he uses trickery and deceit to get make things happen. Just like he does in other of his plays such as Othello, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale. In this story, it isn’t all madness, it leads to love and romance. Trickery leads to love between Beatrice and Benedick, and deception leads to Hero getting married for a second better time. This story will prove to you that not always trickery and deceit is evil and leads to bad things

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