Shakespeare's late romances

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    civil brawls,bred of an airy word By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets and made Verona’s ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments”. (1,1,80) These famous lines were spoken by Prince in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, these lines demonstrate how the feud between the Capulets and Montagues and how the drama between these two families prevented the forbidden love Romeo and Juliet from getting married. The feud was started centuries before Romeo

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    Effectiveness of Act 1 Scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet In this essay, I am going to analyse the dramatic effectiveness of Act one Scene five of ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ This is one of the most important scenes of the play as Shakespeare has instantly created an atmosphere of romance and danger, through Lord Capulets banquet

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    that caused it. In general, people do not think about what a simple action may mean in twenty, thirty years, and, when those consequences catch up to them, search for a blame that should be on their shoulders. In William Shakespeare’s tragic play Romeo and Juliet, the doomed romance and untimely suicides of two young lovers torn apart by a feud between their families leaves readers wondering what exactly is responsible. The feud between Romeo’s father, Lord Montague, and Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet

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    (George Santaya) This quote emphasizes how Humanist views helped to establish Shakespeare’s literature. Without doubt William Shakespeare harnessed this new emotional realism in human nature and incorporated it in a way that set him apart from other artists of the 16th century. No one matched him in terms of variety, profundity, and exquisite use of language (Note: come back and site!!). Since he became active during the late 16th, early 17th century, which is the time the English Renaissance was at

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    Although William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is often categorized as his late romance, its plots reflect the major social movement of that time—the Europeans settling in the New World. As the Europeans eagerly set out to find the New World, they left behind hopeful citizens pondering over what they would find. In The Tempest, through the characters, we can infer that the Europeans’ intentions ranged from creating the perfect government to interacting with the inhabitants. They discovered that their

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    famous love story of Romeo and Juliet. It states the insanity that love can impress upon a person, that makes them accomplish astonishing yet abominable feats. In Shakespeare’s tale it is this notion that contradicts with the universal belief that love is only righteous. Due to this contradiction and the irony that accompanies it, Shakespeare’s classic can be classified. In the classic tale of woe, Romeo and Juliet , the ironic use of Romeo’s love to destroy his friends, family, and himself establishes

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    William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the world’s most renowned plays, one which has stood the test of time over the course of 400 years, finding relevance even today. A complex and sophisticated work, Hamlet is a masterful weaving of the myriad of components that make up the human experience; it delicately touches upon such topics as death, romance, vengeance, and mania, among several others. Being so intricate and involuted, Hamlet has been interpreted in countless fashions since its conception

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    live happy ever after. As we know not all endings are happy as the plan had some confusion in it and ended up with both Romeo and Juliet dead. Both families learning this make an agreement to never fight again, but too little to late. In Elizabethan times the church controlled almost everything, brainwashing people into believing

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    idea in his play, The Taming of the Shrew, a text about romance, hierarchies, and the story of Katherine and Bianca Minola, two girls with opposite personalities. Katherine is being forced into a relationship throughout the story, because Katherine is considered wild and unruly and needs to be tamed. She is a character who rebels, and speaks her mind, which causes others to insult her and see her in a negative light. Ultimately, in Shakespeare’s play, he shows us that society’s expected social norms

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    surrounding characters realise. (It was shown from Mercutios’s viewpoint as the pain became evident). Mercutio insists them that the wound was enough to kill and he needed a surgeon at once, but no one realises that he isn’t fooling around til it was too late. The close-up shot that was used in this scene, made the audience feel the grasp of fate. It intensified the fact that the tragedy could have been avoided so easily (if only the wound had been seen by the others), yet fate was unchangeable as if it

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