... and similarities between two texts. By studying the connections between Shakespeare's play Richard III and Pacino's adaptation "Looking for Richard", the change in context and respective values are made apparent. Shakespeare's constructs Richard III as propaganda in a strict political and religious society during the Elizabethan era. Thus, Shakespeare portrays Richard as an ambitious and evil character. However Pacino's production is ... a monk's actions by holding bibles in both hands in Act 3 to convince the mass population that he is the rightful heir of the throne. In this scene, Sha...

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... men would pay respect to the most powerful man in England; and so, I believe that Shakespeare cleverly introduces these ideas as part of the formalities whilst making them important features of the play. After the formalities Shakespeare introduces how the monarch might feel about kingship. In 1:i:115, Richard says, "impartial are our eyes and ears", but how can a feudal monarch be impartial as ... he is God appointed by speaking about him in this way even though Richard is not present. The Duchess makes several references to "sacred blood" (1:ii:11 and 17) and then later on Gaunt refer...

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... deformities. But the play's later scenes show that Richard is physically very active, and is in quite confident in his ability to seduce women. Shakespeare consistently creates the impression that there is more to Richard than we can begin to grasp. Richard offers a pretext for his villainy by pointing out ... likely to sympathise with him, or at least to be impressed with him and his sharp mind. In this way, the audiences' relationship with Richard mimics the other characters' relationships with him, conveying a powerful sense of the force of his personality and his manipulative power....

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... in the play, by choosing his words and actions properly. Another impression that we have of Richard, which is presented by Shakespeare, is that he is evil and this impression is immediately confirmed when Richard open-mindedly announces that "[he is] determined to prove a villain ". He is determined to ... Richard's most significant characteristics in the first two scenes of Act 1 are that he is extremely intelligent and he uses his intelligence to become highly manipulative and he shows his manipulative nature the most in scene ii of Act 1 when speaking with Lady Anne. During their whole...

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... they are going to be married. Petruchio states, "For I am he born to tame you Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate comfortable as other household Kates " (Shakespeare Act II, Scene I). Although Katharina is fully aware of his intentions, it seems that she is pleased to finally find someone whose intelligence and spirit match her own. Once they are married ... one thing while meaning another. Katharina's final speech seems to be a follow up to a previous encounter they had earlier in the day regarding the sun and the moon. Katharina responds to Petruchio's unreasonable demands ...

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... : "Actors truly are the possessors, the proud inheritors of the understanding of Shakespeare". Therefore, the educational aims are two-fold: to not only make Shakespeare's works accessible but to also illustrate the acting methodology. Consequently, King Richard III & Looking for Richard are connected through their purpose & individual context, which offer an enhanced understanding and enrichment ... apos;anti-hero' or a modern day 'gangster' that has a profound need to manipulate others in order to obtain power. Both Shakespeare & Pacino create representations of Richard's personali...

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... World Picture": "take away order from all things, what should then remain" with the indefinite response of "chaos."2. Shakespeare, in A Midsummer Night's Dream3, challenged as well as upheld this idea. Theatre conditions such as sunlight and weather were naturally out of control ... modern lighting designer might be inclined to put the stage on the northeast side of the yard to encourage more of the sun's rays onto the stage "the practice in Shakespeare's times was less predictable; [] in fact, the orientation appears to have been the exact opposite to what we might ... expect."4 This s...

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... which are representative of the same general sequence of plot development. Act I serves as an introduction to the situation and the characters. Act II is a further development and continuation of the plot. Act III is the climax that serves to solidify and give direction towards the eventual ... the story, Hamlet, is involved in a struggle against his mind and morality and not so much against fate. Hamlet has been described as Shakespeare's (maybe even all of literature's), most masterfully captivating, enigmatic and universally aware character. He is a man of radical contradictions and c...

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... graduated from Duke University in 1937, he went back home to Whittier and settled down as a lawyer. In the next thirteen years, Richard got married, had two daughters, and entered the navy for the duration of World War II. Afterwards, Nixon was successively elected into Congress and the Senate, and in 1952, General Eisenhower selected Nixon, at age thirty-nine, ... ). In just a few short years Nixon created laws to allow America to be environmentally fruitful for future generations, visited China to open trade, and significantly improved foreign relations. Richard Nixon garnered a strong ...

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... The Merchant of Venice should be classified as a comedy because of its abundance of happy endings, light-hearted jokes, and true love. Shakespeare, in his written work his comedic plays it is known for his comedic relief through the characters and the scenes. Generally speaking, this ... play has plenty of silliness and light dialect, which are motivations to rule this play to be a comedy rather than a tragedy. Shakespeare wittily enters funny scenes and joyful jokes to lift up the pressure or tension that the play delivers. Launcelot and Jessica's cheerful discussion in Act ... spare A...

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... power, the fact that all accounts of Sycorax come from the male perspective immediately arouses suspicion regarding credibility. Brittany Blystone, in the Extremes of Gender and Power: Sycorax's absence in Shakespeare's The Tempest, concurs with this view: "because Prospero never saw Sycorax, his detailed descriptions of her are partly his construction, which he manipulates for his benefit". He ... to the Elizabethan audience. Her decorum and appropriateness, combined with her defiance, adds layers of complexity to her character, resulting in her becoming a well-rounded woman.
 A recu...

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... sonnet 43 in 1850, it can be perceived that the emotion of love has evolved over the centuries, finding different expressions, meanings, and norms in different circumstances. With Browning and Shakespeare's distinctive styles of representing love, another contrast can be observed between religion and nature. Browning compares love to weighty, and divine concepts like ""Being and ideal Grace"", ... eternally love 'thee' illustrating her devotion and commitment to divine beings. She shows no appreciation of nature as such in this Sonnet, apart from a single reference to the 'sun...

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In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act I, Scene II, Claudius presents himself to be arrogant, authoritative, as well as compassionate, as the new King of Denmark. The role of Claudius is known to ... balance appearances to his/her benefit, strategically using them to strengthen his/her regime. If Machiavelli was indeed correct, then Claudius, from Shakespeare's Hamlet, starts off as an ideal Machiavellian prince. In Act I, Scene II, Claudius appears to have complete control over Denmark, as evidenced by his imposing speech to the court: "Therefore our sometime sister, now ... express whatever emo...

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... recreation while offering a historical lens into Native American culture and polarizing wealth of the industrial revolution. Formerly an expansive "Italianesque" villa erected as a summer retreat by Richard Teller Crane Jr. in 1910, the 17th-century Stuart style mansion presently occupying the grounds stands preserved to period perfection since completion in 1928. Once an influential meeting ground of ... Jr. had initially sought to build a summer retreat in Newport Rhode Island alongside the many stately homes owned by fellow moguls of industry such as Cornelius Vanderbilt II and Andre...

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... remains physically emasculated. Despite the seemingly impossible task of living up to traditional standards of masculinity "ideals such as honor, duty, and heterosexuality' "Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Sui Sin Far's "The Story of One White Woman who Married a Chinese,"" suggest that failed masculinity often results from being corrupted by society. Through masculine ... manhood by simply nodding his head at Jake after watching Pedro's "perfect bull-fighting-(221). This unspoken understanding that Pedro "was a real one[man],"" exemplifies the idea of aficion, a symbol of on...

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... is however, a statement made by Marvell that overcomes its unfortunate contextual nature and which uses certain myths concerning love and time that are also manifest in Shakespeare's Sonnets "18" and "73". The overriding connotations manifest in Sonnets "18" and "73" include; the mythical nature of eternal love experienced by ... the woman, perhaps so as she would tend to look for intimacy with him for consolation. Marvell successfully recreates the myth of love as a symbol of eternal affection in the first part of "To His Coy Mistress". The narrator in this stanza proves to be the typic...

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"Fear no more the heat of the sun" is written by William Shakespeare, in the time Elizabethan England, during the later part of the renaissance period, when society was very structured, and different from today. Shakespeare was an infamous poet and playwright who wrote many sonnets and plays- tragedies, comedies and histories, whose common themes were love, life and death. "Fear no more", is ... oak"-connotes strength and weakness- comparing the strength of the oak to the weakness of the reed, meaning that strong or weak it ultimately doesn't matter for death is inevitable. Shakespeare employ...

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When analyzing the character of Emilia in Shakespeare's "Othello," one must take into account her conjugal relationship with Iago; an unconventional type of love that Emilia falls deeply into and eventually leads her to the edge of villainy. ... indicates that Emilia is easily influence by temptations, and when confronting temptation she outweighs the personal benefit and making decisions impetuously. Emilia knows that the handkerchief is the symbol of Othello's love but also a symbol for Othello to assure Desdemona's innocent of sexual behaviors. Although Emilia is ware of the significance ...

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In Hamlet's first Soliloquy how does Shakespeare use imagery, language and sentence structure to portray Hamlet's state of mind? In Hamlet's first soliloquy it is painfully obvious that he is ... no longer feels in control and is trapped in his unhappiness. Hamlet uses exaggeration in his speech conveying the idea that he is feeling the extremes of emotion. Shakespeare's use of exclamation marks to mark emphatic speech also show Hamlet's strong emotions. Hamlet likens his father's goodness to that of a Hyperion a great embellishment ... considering that in Greek mythology the Titan Hyperion w...

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... and sensitive feelings. As a whole I felt that they were bad, but I would be lucky enough to find the exceptions." (Wright, 163) Richard Wright's autobiographical Black Boy delves into the mystique of racism in the Jim Crow South and one black boy's struggle to overcome it. Wright finds throughout ... the harm it causes himself and other blacks. Additionally, Wright doesn't believe that the politics of respectability bring any respect or rights to blacks. Richard's uncle, Silas Hoskins', success as a saloon keeper leads to his murder by jealous whites. Thus, Haskins was persecuted rathe...

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... or elsewhere, had a specific role to play, representing the king's household in the region, holding the south from future rebellion. It is unlikely that Richard considered the "plantation" as anything but a temporary device though until Henry Tudor had been dealt with, but the measures he took to hold the ... . He was always " very much at home in the company of his soldiers" and "possessed a real capacity to inspire loyalty" . Notably, Richard restored real peace and stability to the north after the upheavals of the 1450s and 1460s, but also provided sound government and administration....

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... the issues of gender as it is portrayed in the film whilst depicting the confines of the 'female character' and how it is 'stipulated' within specific works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard, is a romantic-comedy drama that depicts a lustrous affair between the privileged Viola de Lesseps ... man-made and shaped by men's anxieties, desires and interests". This misconception of women of the Elizabethan era is both oppressive and encouraging to the 'female matriarch'. Whilst Shakespeare allotted...

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... own considerations in a summative piece of work. A whole-class involvement in the 'Active Learning' process will help cement understanding among the students. This also works outside of teaching Shakespeare as I have used this model for other topics, including poetry, where students can witness each other's efforts, build on and learn from such evaluative exercises. Giving pupils the opportunity to ... students that benefit from using 'Active Methods' for teaching and learning; experienced members of staff can become invigorated by such methods and take them further into the Cu...

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... more wealthy and he was more well-known, prosperous poet and playwright, highly educated and had studied English in depth for many years- Shakespeare wasn't as recognized and he had contrastingly lower education, the reasons behind this could have been because Jonson was more upper class; upper ... and for these lessons it has provided for both men in the present and future. Nationally people are so fascinated with his work because Shakespeare has introduced a variety of historical themes in his play and they are relatable to England's social past with foreign countries. Leading factor ...

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... went without the meat, and cursed the bread" (Robinson line 14); these verses portray the pauper situation in which the townspeople lived. The superiority of Richard is pictured by "a gentleman from sole to crown", "imperially slim" and "he was rich –yes, richer than a king ... as the townspeople recognized Cory's human character and sensitive spirit, yet restrained by his social limitations to interact. Although these verses describe beautifully Richard's emotional imbalance, they also transmit the pity that the townspeople felt for their admired one who, in spite of his elegant demean...

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