Shakespeare in Love

classical tradition brings up their strong dependence upon the famous rule of the three unities : a play should consist of a single action or plot, unfolding in one day in a single place. Unity of action, unity of time, unity of place. When we study a play by Shakespeare – or any other playwright in the English tradition, we should bear in mind that it works according to principles that are poles apart from the classical rules: the meaning of a play, and the pleasure we derive from it, on the contrary

Juliet Romeo and Juliet was based on real lovers who lived in Verona, Italy, and died for each other in the year 1303. At that time the Capulets and Montagues were among the inhabitants of the town. Shakespeare found the tale in Arthur Brooke's poem The Tragical Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562) The action takes place in Verona, where for years, the two biggest families, the Montagues and Capulets are disturbing the peace of Verona in the name of an ancient hatred ( which has unknown reasons

Hamlet Hamlet is one of the most famous tragedies written by Shakespeare. The main character of this play is Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, whose father, the king of Denmark, was murdered while he was sleeping. One day Hamlet sees his father’s ghost who asks him to revenge his death because his own brother (Claudius) is responsible for his death and he has married Gertrude his own wife. Hamlet is in love with Ophelia, Polonius’s daughter and Laertes’s sister. Polonius is the Lord Chamberlain

EXPOSÉE DE SHAKESPEARE Introduction William Shakespeare, largement considéré comme le plus grand poète, dramaturge et écrivain de la culture anglo-saxonne, est réputé pour sa maîtrise des formes poétiques et littéraires; sa capacité a présenter les aspects de la nature humaine est souvent mise en avant par ses amateurs. Origine de la culture occidentale, Shakespeare continue d’influencer les artistes du monde d’aujourd’hui. Il est traduit dans un grand nombre de langues et ses pièces sont

Introduction J’ai choisi de parler de la poésie, et plus particulièrement du sonnet, tout simplement car c’est un sujet qui m’intéresse. De plus, tout le monde connaît cette forme poétique à travers le recueil de Shakespeare mais bien peu de personnes savent comment le sonnet, poème d’origine italienne, est arrivé en Angleterre ou encore, de quelle façon il est passé de la forme de Pétrarque à celle utilisée par l’auteur des Sonnets. De même, la plupart des gens ignorent la manière dont

to a summer’s day” is a typical Shakespearean sonnet written in limbicsp pentameter, and following the traditional English rhyme scheme AB AB CD CD EF EF GG. The author composed it with three quatrains and two flat rimes concluding the poem, and uses a figurative language such as metaphors and anaphora to provide the reader with a kind of permanent tension and to increase emotion presents sp into the text. . In this sonnet, Shakespeare compares the beauty of the beloved person to nature through a

Petrachan conventions of love poetry, that is to say the praises of beauty and perfection and the use of a huge variety of metaphors, based largely on natural beauties. The poet satires the tradition of comparing one’s beloved to all kinds of clichés and actually he subverts and reverses the conventions by describing not a perfect, but a rather imperfect lover. The speaker seems to take the typical Petrarchan metaphors at face value and somehow decides to tell the truth. In the three quatrains there

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play they intend to perform in front of the court for Hand T wedding. Act 1 sc 1 ended with H’s monologue expressing her bitterness and despair at not being loved by D now with act 1 sc 2 tension is relieved by the simple presence of the workmen planning “an interlude». The title of this scene could be “The casting of the play” and can be divided into 3 parts: (l.1-48) workmen meet in the street in front of Quince’s house to cast the play , (l.47-66) Quince seems to be in charge but Bottom interrupts

Classe : Seconde BEP Edition utilisée : Collection Librio Film utilisé : Shakespeare in love Manuel utilisé : Nathan technique Durée de la séquence : 10 heures (+ évaluation) Auteur : Manuel Dubus Sur LHG depuis le : 01/04/2001 Présentation de la séquence * Objectifs : donner aux élèves les caractéristiques du texte théâtral, les faire jouer du théâtre. * Problématique : à quel genre théâtral Roméo et Juliette appartient-il ? * Savoirs et notions : scène d'exposition, nœud