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...

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 ...

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 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...

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 ...

Ben Jonson was a playwright who lived during the English Renaissance. He was a man of great talent who was often overlooked because of the fame and popularity of William Shakespeare. Most of Jonson\'s works are comedies that deal with human behavior and temperaments. Jonson used these plays to try t...

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 ...

Roman Polanski's Macbeth was a successful film. Roman Polanski incorporated very detailed scenes with appropriate characters to form a masterpiece. The character's costumes were very suitable and very believable throughout the entire movie. The music added in the scenes increased the suspe...

Stratford-upon-Avon is a quiet English market town famous as the birthplace of William Shakespeare. It is one of the oldest towns in England. It lies in the green valley of the River Avon. High-peaked Old English-style houses line its narrow streets. It is the largest town in the district of Str...

Examine the Character of Henry V and Refer to Any Performance You May Have Seen. Comment on Shakespeare's Use of Language and Dramatic Device and Stagecraft in His Portrayal. William Shakespeare wrote Henry V in 1599. Henry V was written at the time of Elizabeth I a golden era in English history. A...

Shakespeare In Love is a romantic comedy that traces the year in the life of William Shakespeare. The film\'s screenplay was co-written by Mac Norman and Tom Stoppard who created the film by taking actual facts of Shakespeare\'s life and experiences and entwining them with pieces, ideas, and words f...

Men Dominating Women Looking back at Romeo and Juliet and other Shakespeare plays, I find that men winning the hearts of women by defeating them is a common occurrence. In A Midsummer Night\'s Dream, Theseus states \"Hippolyta, I woo\'d thee with my sword,\" (I, i) implying that Theseus won the love...

Much Ado About Nothing is a story about Claudio, a rich, young and handsome man and Hero, a young, beautiful, and inexperienced rich girl. They are about to get married. But each paradise has a snake and here is the snake Don Juan; a bitter and spiteful nobleman, who wants to drive everyone mad and ...

The Globe Theater Among the many famous writers we have studied this year is William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's life was assuredly most intriguing. Naturally we wanted to see why Shakespeare spent so much of his life involved in the Globe. The first Globe lasted from 1599-1613. Additiona...

William Shakespeare wrote many plays in his lifetime, one of them being Hamlet. The tragedy of Hamlet took place in a castle in Denmark, where Hamlet's father, the formor King was suspected to have been killed by Hamlet's Uncle Claudius. Claudius then married Hamlet's mother Queen Gertrude, and the...

The Globe Theater changed the course of English Theater forever. The Globe broke rules of ownership, class standards, and promoted the greatest playwright ever, William Shakespeare. Throughout its history, the Globe Theater has produced the best of Shakespeare and his amazing plays and when it was c...

Perhaps one of William Shakespeare¡¯s most memorable plays would have to be, ¡°Romeo & Juliet¡±. The congratulatory success that he received was tremendous, and so many of his works were made into movies. His play Romeo & Juliet was re-created in 1997, starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Cla...

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His exact birth date is unknown, but it is traditionally celebrated on April 23. In England, this day is known as the feast of St. George. He was the third of eight children born to John and Mary Arden Shakespeare. John Shakespear...

Watching Sandy Powell's designs for Shakespeare in Love for the second time only reaffirmed my feeling that she deserved the Academy Award, if only for the peacock-feather dress worn by Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth. I was literally drooling over the costumes both times through the film. ...