... two. Wendla and Melchior were talking about there moment of intimacy. They sang "The Guilty Ones" and this was a reference to Shakespeare's play The Tempest. In the song, Wendla said "And who can say what dream are?..."(Sater 64) and in the play, one of the characters ... said, "We are such stuff, As dream are made on". Prospero and Ferdinand, two characters in Shakespeare's play, had this conversation about Miranda's ... was a reference to King Lear. Moritz committed suicide because his father had told him that he had destroyed his reputation due to his failure. In Shakespeare's play,...

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... 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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... it does not change when it finds changes in the loved one. Sonnet 116 begins with Shakespeare expressing his feelings towards his views on love: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments...". (Lines 1-2) Here, Shakespeare is stating that there should be no obstacles between two people in "true" love. ... fancies of either party. He states, "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove." (Lines 2-4) Shakespeare is informing his audience and his beloved on the stiff, mathematical rules he has placed on love. He speaks of alte...

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