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Questions about the workes of William Shakspeare, who writ many a famous plaie and poem. For questions about his plaies, may it please you to add a tag for the plaie (e.g. [hamlet]); for questions about his sonnets, may it please you to add the tag [poetry].
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Does Portia subconsciously influence Bassanio's choice of casket?
There's no way to make a direct link between Portia's preparations and Bassanio's eventual choice. It's more instructive, I'd say, to consider the song's effect on the audience.
We see, as early as P …
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What is the benefit in the Prologue "spoiling" the play in Romeo and Juliet?
Picture yourself as a theatergoer in Elizabethan England. It would be much like going to the googleplex and choosing what to watch. "Action? Romantic comedy? How about that blockbuster we've seen a do …
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What does Holofernes deer epitaph from Love's Labour's Lost mean?
It's entirely possible that Thomas Nashe wrote this passage, which would account for its dated references.
Hunting deer was a sport for the upper class in Shakespeare's England, with its own terminol …
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The meaning of "The rest is silence" in "Hamlet"
With Shakespeare's characters, you usually know what they're thinking. With Hamlet, you're never sure. In the second scene he goes over recent events but says, "I must hold my tongue!" He agonizes ove …
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What reference is Shakespeare making in Act 2 Scene 2 of Macbeth?
The OP states that the source is hard to spell. That can't apply to the Bible.
A classical character who actually blinds himself is Oedipus. His crime is the same as the one Macbeth contemplates--reg …
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