... most noteworthy work, The Spanish Tragedy is responsible for the introduction of an abundance of game changing ideals such as "the iambic pentameter, the five act structure, the play within a play, causality, the Machiavellian villain, the soliloquy, the blank verse, and the Revenge Tragedy" (Nance); single handedly opening new doors and paving uncharted roads in Elizabethan Theatre for other ... the English language"- Shakespeare himself. 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 p...

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... "The Rose", but was performed later at Bourbages, "The Curtain". The actors that took part in this play were all young to middle aged men, because at the time, women were not allowed to perform in any piece of theatre. However, the parts of the play that were meant to be ... women required men to be dressed up as women, so that their part could be easily recognizable to the audience. This play, as well as the movie, ... of "Romeo and Juliet". This movie creates an extraordinary theatrical performance of "Romeo and Juliet", because all of the parts of the play are played by men, there ar...

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... what I am' immediately discloses his duplicitous nature yet the dramatic irony in Othello addressing him as 'Honest Iago' portrays how the antagonist's deception victimises Othello's naivety. Furthermore, the metaphor within Iago's soliloquy as he describes Desdemona as 'free elements' whose virtues he will turn into 'pitch' foreshadows how the innocence of the lovers will be undermined by Iago ... ;haply for I am black...I had rather be a toad and live upon the vapour of a dungeon' demonstrating his self denunciation at the realisation of his racial insecurities. Meanwhil...

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