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  • Portia Shares With King Henry
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    Shakespeare and Similarity of Gender Roles #2 Shakespeare, although historically gender biased, can be charged with giving both males and females similar characteristic traits within his plays. This can best be proven using the comparison of Portia from the "Merchant of Venice" to King Henry from "Henry V". These two characters, barring gender, show common traits throughout both of these plays. They are also set into similar situations, such as marital issues, prank playing, and the use of disgu...
  • Henry And Margaret's Infant Son Edward
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    The 15th century was a time of change for knighthood. Knights no longer fought for their lords in return for land, since the feudal summons had long before given way to a system of contracts. Moreover, many knights now preferred the role of landowner, man-about-town or parliamentary representative. However, this was also the age of the knight in plate armour, of the battle of Agincourt and the conquests of Henry V, and of the Wars of the Roses, the bloody internecine struggle that tore medieval ...
  • Huguenots By The French Roman Catholics
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    Huguenots The Huguenots, French Protestants, became the center of political and religious quarrels in France between 1500 and 1600. Important people such as Anthony King of Navarre, Louis I de Bourbon de Conde, and Admiral Gaspar d de Coligny were Huguenots. They were named the Huguenots by the French Roman Catholics. The name, Huguenots, is believed to be from Bes ancon Hugues, a Swiss religious leader. The Huguenots were the followers of John Calvin's teachings, and they belonged to the Reform...
  • Francois Viete
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    'Francois Viete " Francois Viete went to many places and did a lot of things. He lived for 63 years. In his life he got to do more or at least as much he wanted to do. He got to work for Kings, and also been married twice. Francois Viete was a very interesting. He also went to a few different countries. Francois Viete was born in 1540 in Frontenay-le-Comte, France. It is now the province of Vendee. His father was E tenne Viete, who was a lawyer, and his mother was Marguerite Dupont. They both ca...
  • Abbey Tour Edward The Confessor's Chapel
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    Significant Monarchs in the History of Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, an architectural accomplishment from the thirteenth century on, gives an illustrative display of British history. While daily worship still exists, it isn't a cathedral or a parish church (Internet Westminster). The elaborate Lady Chapel, the shrine of St. Edward the Confessor, as well as tombs and memorials for kings, queens, the famous and great, allow the Abbey to be considered a "Royal Peculiar", which means that it ...
  • Henry V William Shakespeare
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    Book Review: Henry V William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1546. He was the third child to Mary and John Shakespeare and lived in the small, provincial town of Stratford-upon-Avon. He most likely attended the King's New School, of which usually employed Oxford graduates and was generally well respect. After petty school, modern day pre-school, Shakespeare was moved to a higher level of learning in Grammar School. Here his literary foundation was set in motion as he studied the great artists ...
  • King Henry In Line
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    Leanne Beswick Henry V Scene 1 - France. Before Har fleur. King Henry in line one addresses his army as friends. He does this to enforce a feeling of oneness, comrades in arms. These early lines give a feeling that the King does not want to give a sense of distance between himself and his subjects, either by his feelings or protocol of Royal superiority. Consequently he addresses his listeners in such a fashion so as to generate a feeling of everyone being a bosom of family friends. King Henrys ...
  • King Henry
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    SUPPRESSION OF THE ENGLISH MONASTERIES DURING THE REIGN OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH An Essay TABLE OF CONTENTSChapte 3 Chapte 13 Chapte 35 Chapte 45 Chapte 53 Chapte 66 Chapte 71 Append i 73 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTANT PERSONAGES AND PREVALENT SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN THE 1520's AND 1530'sIn the years 1536 and 1539 A.D. there occurred two events in England that were destined to alter its whole religious character. In these two years the King of England, Henry V, forced through the English Parli...
  • Thomas Cromwell
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    In January, 1535, the newly appointed Vicar-General of the English Church, Thomas Cromwell, sent out his agents to conduct a commission of enquiry into the character and value of all ecclesiastical property in the kingdom. Overtly, they were reformers, exercising the new powers accorded to the Crown by the Act of Supremacy: "from time to time to visit, repress, redress, reform, order, correct, restrain and amend all such errors, heresies, abuses, offences, contempt's and enormities "which ought ...
  • Henry VII King Henry VII
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    Henry VII King Henry VII, who defeated king Richard at the battle of Bosworth, reigned from between 24th August 1485, until 1509. He was the founder of the Tudor dynasty that lasted for well over 100 years. He was a very shrewd character who showed no favouritism and was intent on building up England's finance and therefore increasing their prestige as a European power. Another one of his aims was to smooth things over with the Yorkists. His first move to do this was to marry Elizabeth of York, ...
  • Henri De Navarre And Catherine De Medici
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    The Religious Wars History Essay The attempts by Catholic monarchs to re-establish European religious unity and by both Catholic and Protestant monarchs to establish strong centralized states led to many wars among the European states. Spain's attempt to keep religious and political unity within her empire led to a long war in the Netherlands, a war that pulled England over to the side of the Protestant Dutch. There was bitter civil war in France, which finally ended with the reign of Henry of N...
  • Oliviers Film As Henry
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    Henry V was written in the year 1590 by William Shakespeare and it was regarded as a great patriotic play. However in our modern society there are perhaps ironic attitudes in Shakespeare's presentation of the hero. I will be discussing the play and two films made about the play to determine the different attitudes to war and kingship throughout time. The play is introduced by the chorus, who's speeches open each of the five acts in the play. It describes to us that the play is about grand battle...

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