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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like it both describe many serious elements and embark upon an exploration and treatment of some of the most seriousness of life's experiences and themes. ... I actually think that As You Like It is definitely a more interesting play in terms of its treatment of gender and how Rosalind "teaches" Orlando how to woo her. ... In As You Like It, disguise was used to explore the idea of gender and how it is perceived by society, as well as how people express themselves through gender expectations.  ... As You Like It reflects ...

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Othello Many people believe that in Othello, by William Shakespeare, the main character, Othello, is depicted in a racist way by the author. ... Then there's the characterization of Othello from Shakespeare; by this I mean that Shakespeare speaks of Othello directly through the characters that display a lack of bias, Desdemona, the Duke, etc. ... They also exhibit their racism by using phrases like "thick lips" (1-1, line 71), "an old black ram is tupping your white ewe" (1-1, line 97), and "your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (1-1, line 125). ... Desdemona says of Othello "y...

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William Shakespeare touches on this issue in a number of his works. ... However, in his play "The Winter's Tale," Shakespeare deviates from the standard to which women were regarded. ... As his sharp tongue stabs at her with insult after insult, she refuses to descend to his adolescent behavior, and declares: "How will this grieve you, When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that You have thus published me! Gentle my lord, You scarce can right me throughly then to say You did mistake" (II.i.714-718). ... Like "time " slowing down for Leontes, the image has also slowed down enough for th...

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Shakespeare's Sonnet 98 has a 4-6-2-2 pattern. ... Shakespeare's sonnets can be divided into 2 groups. ... "The second and third quatrain of both Sonnet 97 ("How like a winter hath my absence been") and Sonnet 98 ("From you have I been absent in the spring") are linked by muted anaphora in lines 5-9" (Booth 209). ... The keyword in this sonnet is the word "you". The couplet tie that Shakespeare uses is in the word "you" (Vendler 420). ...

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The final line-- "Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote- has a pun on the word "view,"" which sounds similar to "you."" ... Unlike a traditional beauty in most of Shakespeare's sonnets, this woman does not have an appealing smell or "delightful- voice, and gives the reader a more relatable character. ... As the persona points out, his lover does not have a delightful tune, and when read, the line sounds much like a tune, mainly because of the alliteration-- "thy tongue's tune,"" and the extra syllable emphasizes that idea of imperfection. ... The tone however, is much like th...

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Both Shakespeare's comedic play As You Like It and Ken Kesey's post-modernist novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," portrays the transformation of its characters throughout the texts, via a close examination of the gradual evolution of character that occurs within the protagonists of each text. ... This can be seen in Shakespeare's, "As You Like It," which explores the growth of characters throughout their journeys through an examination of personal adversity. ... Conversely, Shakespeare's, "As You Like It," explores the notion of the transformation of identity as ...

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