London was gaining importance as a trading city and was beginning its rapid growth to become one of the first metropolis in Europe. In this section of the website we place Shakespeare in his historical era, examine how his language evolved into the modern English we all speak and read today...
How does Shakespeare in Love represent Shakespearean authorship? How was William Shakespeare influenced by the Bible? What did Ben Jonson say about Shakespeare after Shakespeare's death? Where did William Shakespeare perform most of his plays?
Hauling water was unpleasant labor, and so cleaning yourself with a bidet was largely an indulgence for the upper classes, aristocracy, and royalty. By the 1700s some bidets had a water-pump handle to deliver an fountain-like spray from a refillable tank. And, the bidet was part of every...
What similarities exist between Shakespearean and classical tragedies? How does Elizabethan tragedy depart from Aristotelian formulations of tragedy? What was the purpose of Shakespeare's plays in the Elizabethan era and today? How many tragedies did Shakespeare write and what are their ti...
William Shakespeare was an English actor and playwright who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Born in 1564 at Stratford-upon-Avon, there is not much known about his private life other than his marriage to Anne Hathaway and the names of his three children. Besides religious texts ...
Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, was written during the 1950s as an allegory of McCarthyism and the "Red Scare". During this time in America, people were falsely accused of being members of the Communist party. The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, and focused on the...
were used in the Shakespearean era and are not used anymore. They're different formats of the ...
Many of us may be shocked to know that prose is only 300 years old. It was invented in the Romantic Era (around 1800s), when even the common public was encouraged to read and write. Poetry, however, has existed since the dawn of human civilization. Poetry was known as the language of...
True or False: Everyone loved going to the theater; they thought it was the most wholesome activity during this time. False: Although the majority of people did love the theater, small groups of religious groups thought that the theater was a disgrace and offense to God. ...
The idea of ‘Asia’ in the modern era was anchored on pan-Asianism. Earlier, Western imperial powers, Britain in particular, had called the region ‘Far East’. But Asian leaders wondered: ‘far from where? east of what?’ and coopted Asianism as a new identity. While Japanese ...