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Name: Tutor: Course: Date: William Shakespeare: A Question of Authorship Many scholars believe that Shakespeare's plays and poems are not written by Shakespeare himself; rather someone else has written and published those unparallel popular literary works in Shakespeare's name.... hellip; A careful review of the discourses on Shakespeare's authorship will necessarily find out more than 70 candidates, including William Stanley, Francis Bacon, Edward De Vere, Christopher Marlowe, of the authorship of Shakespearean literary canon....
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Research Paper
In the play, as you like it, love is seen in various ways by the different characters, especially Rosalind, who is the most vocal about love among the characters.... Being a comedy, the play as you like it, can freely express its pragmatic view of love and pass the audience's literary taste....
Act IV, scene i of as you like it showcases the aforementioned views on love.... In this way, love is shown to have positive consequences, such as the freedom of the female characters to pursue and initiate love (Rosalind and Celia) and being deceived in marrying somebody one does not like (Phoebe)....
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Book Report/Review
From the court and its party politics, the powerful and the greedy, to the forest of Arden and its natural freedoms, the exiled and dispossessed, as you like it, with its pastoral, magical potential, opens up a realm of comedic possibilities.... With numerous strange but believable encounters between characters who, in 'normal' circumstances, would have no point of contact, Shakespeare explores the aspects of love, portraying a "series of accidental meetingsand a resolution involving implausible transformations of character and divine intervention....
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An author of the present assignment attempts to investigate the common features of Shakespeare's tragic plays as well as to identify literary elements used in them.... Furthermore, the assignment analyzes particular instances of Shakespeare's tragedies, particularly "Macbeth" and "King Lear".... hellip; Speaking about Shakespeare's tragedies it is worth defining the tragedy as a literature genre: tragedy is a big form of drama, drama genre which is opposite to comedy....
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Assignment
In this passage, Othello was compared to a an animal like a horse from Barbary by the villain Iago.... 1 lines 123-127 which read
“because we come to do you service and you think we are ruffians, youll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, youll have your nephews neigh to you, youll have coursers for cousins and jennets for germans”.... There are other passages which specifically discriminated black people such as in lines 1-2 of William shakespeares Sonnet 127 where it read “In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were it bore not beautys name"....
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Essay
The pastoral comedy as you like it by William Shakespeare and the novel Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh depict various similarities and differences prevalent in both texts.... as you like it mocks the conventional literature and poetry associated with love whereby it is a disease that leads to torment and suffering to the lover, or portray the male lover as the slave of his mistress.... Similar to numerous Shakespeare's plays, as you like it, focuses love on differing levels between individuals of the same sex....
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Book Report/Review
To compare “Brideshead Revisited” by Evelyn Waugh and “as you like it” by William Shakespeare is as good as building bridges between these two literary creations.... “as you like it” by William Shakespeare is a pastoral comedy.... Both the texts have the themes of love and exile in common but “Brideshead Revisited” celebrates the death of love while love finds its way to union in “as you like it.... “as you like it” was published in 1623(written in 1599 or 1600) and “Brideshead Revisited” was published in 1944....
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Book Report/Review
This essay discusses Shakespeare's play “as you like it”.... hellip; The play “as you like it” commences with a court setting, where there is rampant injustice and violence, which is then juxtaposed with the peaceful, rural setting or Arden forest which is much simpler.... The male and characters in the play “as you like it” belie traditional stereotypes; the men are weak and wimpy, while it is the women who are the strong characters making all the decisions....
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Research Paper