Shakespeare "We cannot all be master, nor all masters cannot be truly followed", is a famous quote from one of Shakespeare's plays. In Shakepeare's time, plays, poems, and sonnets performed in theaters were the main source of entertainment. William Shakespeare's plays ...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Elizabethan gentlemen only in appearance. Apart from one joke about the 'fashionable theory' of earth going round the sun no attempt at all is make to link their mental processes to the Renaissance world of corrupt grandeur in which they have roles to play...

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...

Shakespeare KING LEARThere are a lot of similarities in two Shakespeare stories HAMLETand KING LEAR. I guess its because of the style in which Shakespearewrote. William Shakespeare wrote three kinds of stories: comedy,tragedy and history. Both of these books are tragedies and they arevery similar...

Shakespeare KING LEARThere are a lot of similarities in two Shakespeare stories HAMLETand KING LEAR. I guess its because of the style in which Shakespearewrote. William Shakespeare wrote three kinds of stories: comedy,tragedy and history. Both of these books are tragedies and they arevery similar...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet Born in a small market town of Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564, William Shakespeare was the son of a successful glove maker, landowner, moneylender, and deal in agricultural commodities (Brooke 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). He attended the free Stratford Grammar School whe...

William Shakespeare's Effect on Contemporary Theater William Shakespeare and all of his works greatly contributed to contemporary theater in many ways. His understanding of other people allowed him to fully grasp the quality he wrote of. The works of Shakespeare contain a strong ...

Hamlet is considered by many scholars to be William Shakespeare's masterpiece. Shakespeare has written many tragedies, comedies, and histories. His works have been widely produced around the world and are read more widely than any other author in the world. Shakespeare was born in S...

Polonius is a one-dimensional character in William Shakespeare\'s play, Hamlet, but that does make him any less perplexing. Polonius is a father, a politician, and a comic throughout the play, making his character interesting. Polonius is a politician and under close observation, we can see how po...

William Shakespeare\'s theater differed from ours in several respects, but most notably in the fact that women\'s parts were played by males, often younger boys. Shakespeare at times uses this fact to make additional double entendre\'s in his comedies, while the convention that men play women has t...

William Shakespeare's Effect on Contemporary Theater William Shakespeare and all of his works greatly contributed to contemporary theater in many ways. His understanding of other people allowed him to fully grasp the quality he wrote of. The works of Shakespeare contain a strong and constant truth, ...

Who Are Rosencrantz And Guildernstern???First performed in 1603, Hamlet is probably the best known of William Shakespeare's works, and may well be the most famous English language play ever written. But while Hamlet has been the subject of critical analysis since Elizabethan times, the 1960's saw To...