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Shakespeare’s plays Information
5,083 words, approx. 17 pages
 William Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. His plays are traditionally divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy. His plays have been translated into every...




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 The Boston Globe
Will it play?
07/14/1993: 1,110 words, approx. 4 pages A handwriting expert has concluded that an unsigned play known as "The Second Maiden's Tragedy" is the work of William Shakespeare. Charles Hamilton, a 79-year-old who in 1983 determined that the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler were fake, has studied Shakespeare's penmanship for...
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 The Independent - London
...play and play and play and play and play
06/03/1994: 944 words, approx. 3 pages On the top floor of the Trocadero it sounds as if all the demons in hell are holding a disco. Relentless dance music is pierced by shrieks and squeals, sirens, gun shots and electronic beeps pitched fractionally above human endurance. Children in cages...
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 The New York Observer
The Shakespeare Code: Is Times Guy Kind Of Bard \'d4Creationist\'d5?
9/18/2005: 3,127 words, approx. 10 pages It started out amusing, in a way, but now it’s getting ugly—the little-noticed battle over The New York Times’ Shakespeare coverage. Earlier this month, invocations of creationism and Holocaust denial were injected into the debate by no less an authority than Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt, author...
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 The New York Observer
The Shakespeare Code: Is Times Guy Kind Of Bard 'Creationist'?
9/18/2005: 3,126 words, approx. 10 pages It started out amusing, in a way, but now it’s getting ugly—the little-noticed battle over The New York Times’ Shakespeare coverage.Earlier this month, invocations of creationism and Holocaust denial were injected into the debate by no less an authority than Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt, author of...




Literary Criticism
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Fearful Simile: Stealing the Breech in Shakespeare's Chronicle Plays
15,444 words, approx. 52 pages
 Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University The quene perswaded and encoraged by these meanes, toke upon her and her husbande, the high power and aucthoritie ouer the people and subiectes. And although she ioyned her husbande with hir in name, for a countenaunce, yet she did all, she saied all, and she bare the whole swynge, as the strong oxe doth, when he is yoked in the plough with a pore silly asse.
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Critical Essay by Theodor Meron
13,513 words, approx. 45 pages
 In the following essay, Meron compares Shakespeare's treatment of war to medieval and Renaissance legal, religious, and chivalric doctrines of “just war.” Focusing on the English histories and Troilus and Cressida, the critic contends that characters in these plays articulate a message that is essentially pacifist.
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Critical Essay by Ellen C. Caldwell
12,335 words, approx. 41 pages
 In the following essay, Caldwell analyzes Henry VI, Part 2 and Henry V in the context of French and English historians' and artists' representations of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453).
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Comparing Shakespeare and Marlowe
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 Compares the writing style of Elizabethan playwrights William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. Describes how their plays are similar in themes, mood, and characters.


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