... Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare uses oxymorons to express and show the conflict in Juliet's heart when she learns that her husband has killed her favorite cousin. In Act Two of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet adores Romeo and is willing to leave all that is dear to her heart, even her family, to stay with him. Juliet declares, "Deny ... on it was a sign of war if a raven was seen flying by. Shakespeare has a tendency to use ravens, owls and hell-kites as the symbol of death and chaos. In Macbeth Shakespeare uses a hell-kite instead of a raven to express the same emotions t...

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... company with which he was to remain for the rest of his working life 4 (Grose 10). He relied on boy actors to play the female roles because women did not act until after Charles II's Restoration in 1660 (Martin 72). Between 1590 and 1603, Shakespeare wrote approximately 26 plays. This represents well over half of his complete work, and brings him ... theatre (Grose 34). He wrote many plays, which include several that were and now are well known, such as Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, Othello, and Macbeth (Grose 13). In 1597, Shakespeare, as if to show his succe...

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