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Romeo + Juliet- The Symbolism of Water

    Baz Luhrmann's film Romeo + Juliet significantly alters many aspects of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, such as the substitution of guns for swords, but one of his most significant changes...

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Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist: A Reflection of Contemporary Society as it Relates to Immorality and Hypocrisy

For centuries in London, the Plague presented a very real danger to its citizens. However, some people were more concerned with other, moral dangers that city life offered, like prostitution, alcoholism,...

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Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle

     Traditionally, audiences have attended the theatre in order to escape their realities and momentarily become a part of a different world. Though boundaries inevitably exist between the actors on...

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Shakespeare- The Tragedy of the Comedy

    For many characters in Shakespeare's comedies, love immediately becomes a difficult, seemingly impossible, pursuit. In two of these plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night, the main...

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Romeo and Juliet- Who is to blame?

   I was talking to my ex-boyfriend's little brother one weekend, and he told me he had to finish reading Romeo and Juliet for school so he could write his paper. He was in 9th grade, and his paper topic...

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