... the Mayor of Stratford. His mother had come form a farming family who was very prosperous. Through that, she inherited some of the land. When Shakespeare was eleven or twelve, his family had become bankrupt. Normal people would attend grammar school till they were the age of 16, but William was ... forced to leave thanks to his father's financial difficulties. On November 27th, 1582, Shakespeare had got married to Anne Hathaway. She was eight years older then he was. The reason they got married is just a calculated guess, but at ... the time, she was pregnant with Shakespeare's child. I...

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In Shakespeare's King Lear, Poor Tom-a figure of madness, poverty, and linguistic play-acts as the personification of the semi-apocalyptic state into which the social world of the play descends. Edgar ... Act 3, in the midst of the storm, when Lear's madness becomes fully displayed. That we encounter Poor Tom in the setting of the storm-addled heath associates him with the tempest, but in fact this association is suggested by the text from the very first introduction of the Poor Tom persona. In Act 1, scene 2, Edmund responds to Edgar's entrance with the ... ...

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... then had the next 40 minutes to write the essay, referring only to the notes on the question paper. The struggle for power is the essential, basic theme in William Shakespeare's "King Lear". This theme can be viewed through Lear's loss of power, the role of women in a patriarchal society and social power. Through a multitude of critical analysis and interpretations, over ... being. The storm scenes are a clear example of how Lear's character develops from one of pride to one of understanding, and the sustained symbolism of the storm likens the physical tempest of the weather to the inne...

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