This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure in relation to being the villain in the play and his quest for power at any cost. ... Shakespeare's Play, Richard III According to William Shakespeare's presentation, Richard III in the eponymous play is a man driven by vengeance, ambition, and a thirst for power. ... Richard is the main character in Shakespeare's play; the author presents him as a villain who does wicked things intentionally to satisfy his selfis...

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But his morality is questionable; Shakespeare's original production seems to highlight both sides, and it can be argued, equally. ... It is in their best interests to distract the King; the impending tax law would make them lose a lot of their wealth. ... According to traditional thinking, King Henry is the brave and majestic hero of the play. ... But he is also the most successful king in Shakespeare's History plays. ... He is one who took the throne unrightfully, but kept the throne safe and had no threats to his reign, the only King in Shakespeare's tales. ...

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Everyone seeks for his/her own interests without paying attention to any restrictions. ... This literally work of Shakespeare explores many ideas for people to think about. ... It is weird how Shakespeare could predict some things about the future including the downfall of families and political authorities. ... Kent and The Fool are also loyal to Lear throughout the whole play. ... From the beginning of the play we learn that he advises Lear not to hurry and take the wrong decision about his daughter Cordelia. ...

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After reading William Shakespeares' Romeo and Juliet, you have a better understanding of the characters then when we are first introduced to them. ... Juliet showed many acts of heroism in the play. ... Romeo, although maturing in his feelings of love and intimacy is still young and reckless in his behavior.   ... Upon his exit, in a foreshadowing tone, Juliet thinks she sees his body not on the ground, but "as one dead in the bottom of a tomb." ... After Juliet meets Romeo, many of her opinions and interests begin to change. ...

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The play is a reflection of its time. ... The plays provided the equal opportunity for people to fuel their passions for learning and to answer theological questions. ... Some playwrights emphasized theatrics in order to make their points and those plays became the most popular. ... The play frightened its audiences into seeking moral perfection. ... Morality plays intended to scare people into righteous living. ...

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The feedback I received was remarkably consistent again and again young audience members told me that they never realized how entertaining, hip, and relevant Shakespeare can be. ... He, likewise, had never worked in theatre, and was surprised by his own excitement for, and enjoyment of, working on a play " something he never envisioned himself doing. As with the costumes, the music he composed felt congruous with the nightclub environment, and the hip, contemporary feel of his beats struck the young adults in the audience as being antithetical to what they had come to expect from the s...

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Anyway it was in Florence, especially among the patrician class, that Petrarch's formality was most emphatically gotten, most quite through his companion and devotee Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 "1375). ... Traditional style was grasped from multiple points of view amid the Renaissance in Italy, and it showed itself in different interests. ... His most famous work, Elegances of the Latin Language (published 1471), was a practical style guide for writing and speaking the most elegant Latin, which he identified with the Latin of the "golden age" of Roman letters. ... Stone carver, Filippo ...

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Thus the early historical sections of the Bible are concerned with the manifestation of God's will in the events of human existence, while they show the same genealogical interests as the king lists of other peoples. 3 Western Historiography Greek and Roman Historiography It was not until the time of the Greeks that historiography, the writing of organic history, emerged. ... It is with some justice, however, that Herodotus is considered the first historian, because in his work appears the conscious desire to record all the significant and noteworthy circumstances surrou...

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In his novel, Sons and Lovers, he feels his writing was the best he was achieved. ... In the end he realizes that his most dominating relationship is that which he has with his mother. ... In psychoanalytic theory, it is a son unconscious sexual love for his mother and his subsequent hostility and jealousy toward his father. ... The Oedipus complex is a complex when a man loves his mother, and hates his father because of his strong love of his mother. ... Therefore, he drunk, lost his temper with wife and children in order to take out his annoyance. ...

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This was going to be something that handled the growth of the cultural industry while monitoring and aiding this growth over time, in the best interests of the people of Italy. ... Realizing slowly that tourism plays a major part in being attractive to the rest of the world culturally, the ministry was also given the responsibilities and the duties of regulating and maintaining the department of tourism for the country. ...

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Also, whether or not the media played a non-bias role in covering both sides of the issue. ... I will also look at the role the media played in the stages of the "war on drugs." ... This is where the media plays a huge role in the war on drugs. ...

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