The Winter's Tale is considered a romantic comedy, but tragic elements are interwoven throughout the play. First produced at the Globe around 1610, it is one of Shakespeare's final plays. For a first-hand account of the staging of The Winter's Tale in Shakespeare's London, please click ...
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She later honed her craft at the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company. Mirren's breakthrough came in the 1960s when she began to garner recognition for her stage performances. However, it was her role as Detective Jane Tennison in the television series Prime Suspect that catapulted her ...
Nothing is known about the reaction to the play in Shakespeare’s day, But Marc Morris’s article inHistory Today(based on his new bookKing John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta) notes that Shakespeare’s initially sympathetic treatment of John might have owed something to Thom...
Every decade has its own unique teen movies. Teen movies in the early 2000s reflected a changing world and the beginning of a new millennium and as a result many of them contained what some considered controversial content. From comedy-dramas like Juno to violent and tragic stories like Ken ...
Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story about two young lovers from feuding families. Hamlet is a complex play about revenge and madness. Macbeth is a dark tragedy about ambition and power. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a lighthearted comedy full of magic and mischief. Shakespeare's language...
A member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1960s, Jackson portrayed Ophelia in a notable "Hamlet" staging and originated the role of Charlotte Corday in the London production of the controversial play "Marat / Sade," receiving a Tony Award nomination when the work moved to Broadway. ...
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Shakespeare is an impure dramatist who writes both comedies and tragedies andmixes comic and tragic elements in the same play. At about the same time when he composed the comedy of A Midsummer Night's Dream with a tragicplay-within-the-play performed farcically (i.e., the Peter Quince pla...
A Man of Admirable ExploitsEveryone is his own person, and he is entitled to his own opinion and judgment of subject in a society. It is difficult sometimes to determine who is the tragic hero of a story without reasons and proof. In William Shakespeare play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,...