All of Shakespeare's plays enjoy a long and storied history of performance. They are all still performed today, though some plays are more controversial than others. Othello, for instance, deals with race and racism in a way that is not fully aligned with modern sentiments....
Summary of William Shakespeare's Hamlet: Hamlet sees his dead dad's ghost, pretends to go crazy with revenge, actually goes crazy with revenge (debatable), and everyone dies. Act I Late at night, guards on the battlements of Denmark's Elsinore castle are met by Horatio, Prince Ham...
Shakespeare’s Richard II opens in the court of King Richard II in Coventry, where a dispute between Henry Bolingbroke, the son of John of Gaunt, and Thomas Mowbray, the Duke of Norfolk, is to be resolved by a tournament. Bolingbroke has accused Mowbray of being implicated in the death of...
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William Shakespeare wrote many plays for several people throughout his life. While he may have written the play initially for one person, he also made sure that throughout the play to target all those who would be watching. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet delivers a speech in which all ...
in 1972.4 Women couldn't watch the , as it was a men-only event.5 It was typical for a to play female characters in Shakespeare plays.6 When the was invented, people thought it was dangerous for women.7 Women were not chosen to be until the late 1970s.8 Women have always needed to...
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) To attempt an analysis of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a single blog post: surely a foolhardy objective if ever there was one. So here we’ll try to focus on some of the key points of Hamlet and analyse their sig
Explore the comedic play As You Like It by William Shakespeare. Read a summary of the plot, examine its setting, review the characters, and find...
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Plays & Drama Poetry Quotations Short Stories Children's Books As the title of this Shakespeare play suggests, there’s a lot of fuss over nothing! Claudio and Hero fall in love and plan to get married, but the villainous Don John slanders Hero with false evidence. The wedding is ruined ...