Shakespeare was one of the most prominent play writers in the late 1500's. ... The use of language in the play As You Like It, helps to convey the idea of identity and also to create humour. ... The dramatic technique of elements of plot is used in the play As You Like It, to convey the idea of identity and the importance of love. The changeability of identity is a typical idea of comedy conveyed in As You Like It through the dramatic technique of plot. ... In the play, Shakespeare criticizes courtly love and emphasizes on the importance of real love. ...

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Present day conceptions of gender would appear to be different to what they were in Shakespeare's day. ... Using the play As You Like It and the characters portrayed within it one might be able to see how our concept of gender may well be challenged. ... By carefully going through the text of As You Like It (Greenblatt, ed., PP1591-1657) one can try to "dig in" to the characters portrayed and discover any challenge to our views of gender identity. ... Rosalind seems to confirm this in the line (Greenblatt, ed., p 1654, line 113) to Phoebe, "Nor ne"er wed woman if you not be she." ......

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He reasons with him; "You may as well use question with the wolf Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb- (Act IV.1 lines 73-74). ... Ford's husband in the laundry basket and she replies "If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death- (Act IV.2 lines 138-139). ... A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell A strange fish! ... In action, how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! ...

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Shakespeare's was a family of eight children. William Shakespeare's parents, John Shakespeare and Mary Arden raised their children in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. ... He was most often sketched as a middle-age man, with a receding hairline and a pageboy like haircut. ... In August 1596 Shakespeare's life was disturbed by family tragedy. ... Finally I would like to share with all of you one of Shakespeare's love quotes: "Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares. " ...

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The forest of Arden is the setting where the majority of As You Like It takes place. ... The inhabitants of the court see the forest of Arden as an Eden-like place, a reference that is continued in regard to some of the forest's inhabitants. ... With Celia's remark that "I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it" (35), it is clear that the forest is a viable option and can be favored over the court. ... Despite his subservient role to Rosalind, Orlando has several Christ-like qualities and roles. ... Hence Oliver bestows Orlando with, "my father's house, and all ...

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*Shakespeare's biography* Shakespeare was born, to all appearance, on April 1564. ... It is not known in which school Shakespeare was educated, but he was educated in a school like other schools of the same renaissance type. ... "The period of somberness and seriousness" (1601-1604): comedies: As You Like It", Twelfth Night, All is Well Which Ends Well, Measure for Measure; satirical comedy: "Troilus and Crisseda; tragedies: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Othello; 4. ... Shakespeare could look with critical eye on people of his time like people, without regard on their nationality, ...

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You can fight against the "bad" people and still come out on top. You can love and be loved. You can survive solely on the passion you have for your partner, but if you lose what you have, there can be some tragic results. Your personality is reflected through the life you live. ... You should be thankful for what you have been given, because in one second, you could lose it all. ...

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A bit like opera; not everyone will love his works, but those who do not love his works will nonetheless have an appreciation for the artistic skill and beauty they contain. ... Very little is known and documented about Shakespeare the man. ... In the year 1592, Robert Greene, a London playwright said of Shakespeare: "...an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scen...

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Lysander says to Demetrius "You have her father's love. Do you marry him" implying that Demetrius might be attractive to males. ... He uses different ways, like malapropism, exaggerated alliteration, mispronunciation and also bad punctuation. ... Mispronunciations like perfet instead of perfect and bad punctuation like "We do not come, as minding to content you, our true intent is." makes the characters sound silly and the play rather funny. ... Flute who is a male had to dress up and act like a female when he was Thisbe in the play. ...

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As You Like It 1. "As You Like It" was written by William Shakespeare. ... As You Like It was written in this year, just after Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and Julius Caesar, and just before the writing of Hamlet in 1600. Unlike many of Shakespeare's plays, As You Like It seems to contain few references to the world outside the theatre; unlike the political history Shakespeare reworked in his "history plays," or the commentaries on kingship and power that pervade his tragedies, Shakespeare's comedy plays generally seem to be light-hearted works, meant to entertain and amu...

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In As You Like by William Shakespeare the search for love acts as the primary motive behind the actions of the play's three characters - Rosalind, Touchstone and Orlando. ... Thus , Rosalind , Touchstone and Orlando quest for love throughout William Shakespeare's As You Like It . ... During Shakespeare's time , the word was commonly used to refer to young men who engaged in homosexual romances (About Shakespeare). ... She says to him " I would cure you, if you would but call me / Rosalind and come every day to my cote and woo me , " (3.3416-417). ... In As You Like It ...

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Then I will perceive you are not nigh. Either death or you I"ll find immediately. ... She lingers my desires/ Like to a step-dame" (Act 1, Scene 1, 2-5). ... "And then the moon, like to a silver bow/ New bent in heaven, shall behold the night/ Of our solemnities"(Act I, Scene 1, 9-11). ... "Are you sure/ That we are awake? ...

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Giving pupils the opportunity to have ownership and responsibility during the scheme of work where Shakespeare is the focus seems to be key in engaging students. ... The RSC report, "Would you risk it for Shakespeare?... " (Irish, 2011) Perseverance can be a form of endurance for both teacher and student as things don't always go to plan and reflection on how to make things better will only make the desired improvements: "Some ideas work right away, but some don't – they need bedding down as both you and your pupils become used to them.... In my experience, when ...

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In order to be able to analyze the ways in which Shakespeare leads us to both like and dislike Shylock simultaneously, it is essential to realize that The Merchant of Venice was written at a time when, there existed in England, an enormous prejudice against Jews and other minorities. ... In Acts I and II, there are only a few examples of Shakespeare's feelings towards Shylock. ... Or shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, with bated breath and whisp"ring humbleness say this: "Fair sir, you spet on me on Wednesday last; You spurned on me such a day; another time you called me "dog"...

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In his poem, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun," Shakespeare engages his reader by presenting a woman realistically rather than romanticizing her. ... It became the norm to put women on pedestals and present them as goddess like creatures. Imagine you are a man waking up to your woman beside you after a long night's rest. ... No one's eyes is brighter than the sun, nor does anyone's breath smelled perfumed unless they use mouthwash, so by acknowledging facts like these, the mood in Shakespeare's poem makes his poem more relatable through its realism. ... He ...

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He also invented multitudes of expressions and phrases, which can be seen clearly, not to mention humorously, in the following masterful passage written by Bernard Levin: "If you cannot understand my argument, and declare 'It's Greek to me', you are quoting Shakespeare; if you claim to be more sinned against than sinning, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you recall your salad days, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you act more in sorrow than in anger, if your wish is father to the thought, if your lost property has vanished into thin air, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you have ...

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Shakespeare, in a way, is a brand. ... In distinguished plays such as Hamlet, one can see traces of Kyd's influence in aspects like that of the Machiavellian character Claudius, Hamlet's play within a play, and the most obvious of all, the fact that Hamlet, in and of itself, is a "Revenge Tragedy". ... As far as Kyd is concerned, the only time you might actually see or hear his name get brought up in an everyday setting is in a New York Times article titled "Further Proof of Shakespeare's Hand in The Spanish Tragedy". ... Regardless of how Shakespeare's ...

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You cannot disobey a president, or king. ... "Hamlet: Never make known what you have seen tonight. ... Hamlet returned shall know you are come home. ... "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son." ... God, like any other king, has laws and rules for his people. ...

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Shakespeare had the right idea all along. ... Shall I Compare you to a Summer's Day? ... In the fourth line of the sonnet, Shakespeare says how summer is too short and how his lover's beauty does not end like this season does. ... Your mistress's eyes are like the sun? ... Your mistress's breath smells like perfume? ...

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William Shakespeare was a master at incorporating love in his sonnets. ... He continues on and talks about how their lover is considered to be their home and like a traveler they would eventually have to come back home. ... I assumed that these lines meant that it wouldn't be so easy for me to leave you for something worthless in exchange. ... The rhyming couplet in the end explains that the universe means nothing to him and the only thing that matters is you, the significant other. ... "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments" (Shakespeare). ...

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Petruchio sets out to "woo this wildcat" (1.2, 195), and vows to "tame you, Kate, / And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate / Conformable as other household Kates" (2.1, 273-275), (Marvel 86). ... Kate responds, "Well ta"en, and like a buzzard" (2.1, 205-206). ... But sun it is not, when you say it is not, And the moon changes even as your mind. ... Beatrice is much like Kate in her quick wit. ... So, like Kate, Beatrice stops the charades, and reforms to her role as a wife. ...

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I really liked the movie Renaissance Man because it has a good sense of humor but at the same time it has an educational side to it as well. It also shows that learning doesn't always have to be stressful - you can make it fun and educational the same time. ... He also answers some questions that his students asked about Shakespeare and his plays. ... The movie shows that anyone can feel a connection to Shakespeare and his work and it is a good way to let a class be introduced to Hamlet and Shakespeare. ... I recommend this movie to anyone that is about to get into Shakespeare or about t...

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(Spark Notes, Shakespeare). ... "Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you [ ] (Donne, 10, I)." ... In the first quatrain, the speaker spends one line on each comparison between his mistress and something else (the sun, coral, snow, and wires--the one positive thing in the whole poem some part of his mistress is like. ... "From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell Nay, if you read this line, remember not The land that writ it [ ]" (Shakespeare, 71, iv-vi). The third and fourth show how he wants the reader's love to decay like his body. ...

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Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

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