By 1600, international trade routes, which had been centered around the Mediterranean Sea for centuries, were almost entirely based around Northern Atlantic countries like Spain, France, and England. The economic explosion and widespread circulation of money that came with this were accompanied by ...

A Shakespearean Stage History: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice Considered by many to be Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, Othello, the Moore of Venice, was first recorded as having been performed in 1604. It was probably written not long before that, although the text of the p...

How didst thou sway the theatre! Make us feelThe players' wounds were true, and their swords, steel!Nay, stranger yet, how often did I knowWhen the spectators ran to save the blow?Frozen with grief we could not stir awayUntil the epilogue told us 'twas a play. From the point of view of an actor, pla...

One memorable moment that I found quite funny was in the film, \"To Be or Not to Be.\" While there were several hilarious scenes, the title line that pops up frequently in the film got the greatest laugh out of me. The Shakespearian line, \"to be, or not to be\" isn\'t funny in and of itself. In fac...

The first Theatre to be built in London was The Great Theatre – built in 1576 by James Burbage, in Shoreditch, north of the city walls in London (north of London Wall which bounded the city proper); on the edge of Finsbury Fields, just past Bishopsgate Street. The building was a vast, polygon...

Over the weekend, I attended a one-act play competition to see the high school I graduated from in their presentation of Act IV of Shakespeare\'s \"The Comedy of Errors.\" I didn\'t know what to expect, having never read or seen the play, but I was excited because Shakespeare is always entertainin...

Of all of the works of William Shakespeare, his play A Midsummer Night's Dream has, perhaps, been readapted on stage and on film in more ways than any other. These film adaptations extend from groups remaining absolutely true to the original text to those who alter a great deal to either modernize ...

The dimensions of the original Globe Theater (based on John Orrell\'s The Quest for Shakespeare\'s Globe) are as follows: · Diameter: 100 ft surface to surface 99 ft center to center · Yard: 70 ft between post centers 69 ft surface to surface · Stage: 49 ft 6 inches across · Stage height: 5 f...

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet leaves a lot of room for creative elaboration and from this had come countless video versions of the play. This well-known tragedy lives in people's heart since it was written. Two brilliant directors, Franco Zefferelli and Baz Luhrmann, showed two tota...

"MacBeth", although one of Shakespeare's greatest works, disappointed me when seen on stage. Usually, acting captures the raw emotion and depth of a character's feeling. However, in this recent portrayal, I found there was a great lack of true sentiment resulting in confusion and...

Richard Mansfield (1857-1907), American stage actor, was born inBerlin to soprano Erminia Rudersdorff Mansfield and her second husband,British wine merchant Maurice Mansfield. He was educated in England andstudied painting but eventually drifted into acting, starting his stagecareer with a tou...

The life of William Shakespeare Parents/Family His father, John, trained as a glove-maker and married Mary Arden, the daughter of Robert Arden, a farmer from the nearby village of Wilmcote. John and Mary moved to Henley Street, Stratford, the house now known as Shakespeare\'s Birthplace. John Shake...

Review of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Directed by Yukio Ninagawa Performed at The Theatre Royal, Plymouth, September 2004 Hamlet is one of Shakespeare\'s most popular and widely produced plays. It\'s the story of The Prince of Denmark, whose father, The King, is killed by his own brother. Ham...

Trying to produce a film adaptation from a play or novel is sometimes quite difficult because the result of the film is almost completely based on the director's decisions. While the director may manipulate the film production and guide it towards a certain direction, other people may disagree ...

The Red Deer College Theatre Studies presentation of Richard III by William Shakespeare was excellent. The production really brought the book to life adding everything from a few different twists and turns than in the original script to Richard being quite comedic but still extremely sinister. Altho...

Shakespeare: In Love and Reality According to Jeremy Giltzer, Hollywood has "turned to history to create inspired moments of action, drama, and patriotism." It has "provided the movies with some of the most climatic moments and colorful characters imaginable," while making co...

Kenneth Branagh and Laurence Olivier are often considered to be quitesimilar. This is based on obvious similarities such as the fact that theyare both actors and directors and that they have both acted in and producedadaptations of Shakespeare's plays. One effective way to compare the twois ...

The Globe Theatre was a London Theatre, which was built in the year 1599. The English actor, Richard Burbage, in partnership with William Shakespeare, the renowned poet, and playwright, built the theatre. William Shakespeare was born in 1564. In 1588 he left the town of Wickshire and went to Lond...

Did William Shakespeare ever foresee that his play Hamlet would be later modified into several film adaptations? Did he ever have any visions of how the film would be produced? When Hamlet was created into a film, the version of the play that would best uphold Shakespeare's vision would be Fran...

SHAKESPEARE'S "HAMLET" By Cailin Thompson "Hamlet", one of William Shakespeare's greatest plays was written around the 1600's. In those days, theatres and plays were hard to come by for the poor people and the rich always mocked the actors. Women were not allowe...

English 102 19 April 1999 Why Romeo and Juliet was so popular in Shakespeare's time and why even today it is still so popular? William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, England to Mary Arden and John Shakespeare. He was the third of eight child...

Much Ado About Nothing is perhaps William Shakespeare\'s most depressing comedy. Although it is ultimately uplifting, throughout the play there are themes that are also prevalent in such devastating tragedies as Romeo and Juliet and Othello. Trickery, deceit, and death are woven throughout this smar...

William Shakespeare's play "Much Ado About Nothing" differs in many ways to MGM Studios adaptation to the text. With over 400 years separating the original play from the modern day film, there are many differences in characters, the setting, the costumes, and the dialogue. Many of t...

To say that “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” would be to describe many of Shakespeare’s plays. Many of the characters in Shakespeare’s plays are subconsciously playing parts in their own soap operas. For instance, in “Titus Andronicus,\" the outcome of ...

Shakespeare was born on 23April 1564,at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, a prosperous small market town of about two thousand inhabitants. He was the third child and the first to survive infancy. He was to be followed by five brothers and sisters. His mother was Mary ...