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  • Appearance Of Shakespeare's Major Tragedies
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    Shakespeare, William (The Poetry) Shakespeare would be well known for his poetry alone. His first published works were the narratives Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucre ce (1594). The love poem The Phoenix and the Turtle appeared in 1601. But his major achievement is the Sonnets (1609, written in the 1590s). In them Shakespeare exercises his talent for compressing meaning, fully realized in his later work. Addressed (numbers 1-126) to the unidentified W.H. and (numbers 127-152) to the...
  • Shakespeare's Play
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    Biography William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a play write in England. The Merchant of Venice is one of his many "comedies". Some scholars however, have made the argument that the play is one of his tragedies. Other tragedies of Shakespeare include Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare lived in a time when Jews had been expelled from England for over three centuries. However, as a play write, Shakespeare also probably faced much prejudice and hatred-theater was banned from his home town of Lo...
  • Romance And The First Three Acts
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    The Winter's Tale: The Tragedy Within A Romance In 1623, the complete works of Shakespeare were published in the First Folio. Within this Folio were the works of Shakespeare categorized by their genre. There were tragedies, histories, comedies, and the final four were romances. Prior to this time, romance was not a widespread genre in anyone's writings. We can see by means of the 'genealogy' of writing, that the romance we know today was created through the combination of the Greek novels and Sh...
  • Tragic About Contemptible People Dying Shakespeare's Tragedies
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    Shakespeare's theatrical works are generally categorized into three all encompassing groups: the uplifting comedy, the lamented tragedy, and the excruciatingly boring history play. However, things can get a little confusing when you end up with a comedy like Measure for Measure or a tragedy like Titus Andronicus. Often we find that many of Shakespeare's plays do not fit into their ascribed categories, but is it the plays that don't fit the categories, or the reverse Are the general groupings of ...
  • Shakespeare's The Tragedy Of Othello
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    For many centuries people have found theater to be an excellent form of entertainment. The public's appreciation for such entertainment is based upon different theatrical themes. Whether it is a lighthearted comedy, that is most certain to lift anyone's spirits, a passionate romance, that stirs our innermost quixotic emotions, or a dire tragedy, that finds no rhyme or reason in our so-called "fair" concept of life. These types of plays appeal to the different aspects of humanity, and that is why...
  • Main Element In Shakespeares Tragedies
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    Shakespeare is not our poet but the worlds, stated by W.S. Landor in 1846 (Lamb 340). William Shakespeare has given the world a whole new perspective on poetry. Usually the pieces he has written are either hated or loved. He has written comedies, romances, and tragedies. All of his pieces have been wonderful but the ones that stand out the most are his tragedies. The elements he uses in his tragedies set them above all the rest. All the tragedies, which include Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; King Lea...
  • Shakespeare's Tragedies
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    Shakespeare- Tragedy Class 101 Shakespeare- Tragedy Class 101 Essay, Research Paper Shakespeare: Tragedy Class 101 If you were to walk out onto a street and get hit by a car, people might think this is a tragedy, referring to the common usage of the word as meaning anything bad that happens to a person or society. But in the days of Shakespeare, the word tragedy had on more significant meanings; it meant a drama having a disastrous or fatal ending brought about by the character's inevitable and ...

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