"Although Shakespeare's plays were performed at other venues during the playwright's career, the Globe Theatre in the Southwark district of London was the venue at which the Bard's best known stage works (including his four great tragedies) were first produced. The Globe was built during Shakespeare's early period in 1599 by one of his long-standing associates, Cuthbert Burbage, the brother of the most famous Shakespearean actor of the Elizabethan Age, Richard Burbage." ... Thus, Shakespeare units that include his poetry and plays must be taught. However, is learning tha...

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Romeo And Juliet is a brilliantly written tragic drama written by William Shakespeare in about 1594. ... The line that best describes his overall interests in parent involvement became stated clearly early in the story when Lord Montague explains to Romeo's friend Benvolio that "Both I and our friends have tried to speak with him. ... That alone could also be the lead reasoning behind the dramatic difference in Romeo's irrational changeability as a dynamic character, to Juliet's ability to remain (For the most part) a static character throughout Shakespeare's play. ......

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In this poem, important aspects of the life of his times- political and religious- find expression in it. ... He was a political poet -Anglican at this time- and he was also made Poet Laureate and Historiographer since 1670, but he also had an official position, his reason and interests were all on the side of legitimism and settled government, so that the Whig agitation to exclude from succession to the throne Charles II's heir and brother James on the grounds that he was Roman Catholic and to encourage Charles's illegitimate son the duke of Monmouth to assert his claims found Dryde...

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In the essay "Hidden Intellectualism" the author Gerald Graff explains how he conveys his street smarts into his intellectual life. ... In one sentence Graff claims, "We assume that it's possible to wax intellectual about Plato, Shakespeare, the French Revolution, and nuclear fission, but not about cars, dating, fashion, sports, TV, or video games.... Graff's mindset seems to be that having knowledge on cars, fashion, sport, or TV is just as important as having knowledge on Plato, Shakespeare, or different wars throughout our world history. ... James went into the NBA ...

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