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Shakespeare's Women

When looking at the way Shakespeare portrays women in plays like The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, it seems that despite the fact that the “ideal of women’s chastity, silence, and obedience was...

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10 Great Must-See Foreign Movies

I got asked this all the time.  Back when all of us were using VCRs, video rental stores were in their hey day. Unlike today where you can pay one price per month and never have to worry about late fees to...

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Famous Birthday Listings: April 23

 Born on this day? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!Below are some very famous celebrities (64 names) past and present who have their birthday today. Some of them you will have heard of and others you may not have! ...

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William Shakespeare's Macbeth notes

From my previous Hub post of my British Literature paper, I wrote how that paper was extra credit for my Macbeth test. This Hub is the notes/study guide for that Macbeth test, which I got a 94 on. I think...

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Fortinbras as a Foil for Hamlet

The Chandos Portrait of William Shakespeare Of all the characters in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Fortinbras is perhaps the strangest. He is barely seen and speaks little. Other characters often speak of...

4 comments    william shakespeare norway
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My Top Five Favorite Authors

My top 5 authors include James Baldwin, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Kurt Vonnegut and William Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare's Favorite Book- Exemplified in The Taming of the Shrew

Shakespeare’s Inclusion of Ovid’s The Metamorphoses to Foreshadow and Highlight the Transformation of the Character of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew      William Shakespeare’s romantic...

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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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Ghostwriting - A History

Ghostwriting/ghost writing may not be the oldest profession in the world, but it’s been around longer than you might think. For as long as there has been any such thing as a written language, there have...

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Themes in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a well known play written by William Shakespeare. Throughout the drama, the audience sees several themes and events that run together and are nearly interchangeable. A...

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