Help me...i don't get Shakespeare!!?
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Chess.  Henry had only 500 soldiers agains 30,000+ French and at the end of the day, won the war with over 10,000 Frenchment dead and only the loss of 25 of his own .. the final battle of Agincourt.\n\nThis was done by stratgic planning and design of his defensive area and choice of ground ... thickets to the left and rears to prevent calvarly attacks from the french ... choice use of the English Longbowman and ground fortifications to bunch up the French behind a narrow front line (thus they were litterally hundreds deep trying to get at the English) ... easy pickings for the long-bowmen who simply fired into the crowds of French.\n\nHad it been tennis, Henry would not have pervailed simply due to the numbers he faced in opposition.\n\nAdditionally, his choice of cities which he invaded along the way were such that he took only the richest and least fortified of cities ... avoided the French army along the way, thereby rumor of the unstopable English spread through France and preceeded him where he showed up.  Few cities, after the initial ones, offered any resistance at all.  Once taken, he left them to their own, relaeasing them from their obligations to the King of France and the French court ... making lots of friends in those cities too.\n\nAgain, all strategy and planning and forethought ... that is Chess.\n\nHenry was also a very wild young man ... "his life filled with riots, books and banquets and never did he know of any study in them !"   But, like he says in the play, "We understand well how you come o'er us with our wilder days, not measuring what use we've made of them."
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/macbeth/\n\nAn Introduction to Macbeth \n\nThe Symbolic Pattern\n\nhttp://www.eastdonsc.vic.edu.au/home/pgardner/teaching/Macbeth_notes.html\n\nI have found 13 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=251\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Macbeth\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xMacbeth.html\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nhttp://www.schoolbytes.com/summary.php?id=422\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/macbeth001.html\n\nProtagonist \n\nMacbeth as the personification of greed and resulting evil. He kills the king to seize the throne for himself and continues to murder to protect himself from discovery. \n\nAntagonist \n\nHis conscience and guilt, which are his undoing (and the forces of good at work) \n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmMacbeth04.asp\n\nMacbeth Literary Analysis\n\nhttp://www.freeessays.cc/db/42/sra201.shtml\n\nEnjoying "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.pathguy.com/macbeth.htm\n\nMacbeth Symbolism, take inspiration from this essay and beware of plagiarism.\n\nhttp://www.freeessays.cc/db/42/sra216.shtml\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Strictly speaking, this does not answer your question, but it might be fun to keep in mind that Shakespeare (whoever he was) basically ripped off the story of Romeo and Juliet from some French novel or something that ripped it off from some other source that was an adaptation of an old Greek story (or something like that).  It might be better to judge Shakespeare by some of his other works, rather than the admitted fluff that is Romeo and Juliet.
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Shakespeare...he was a partier.
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You need to narrow this down. What age/grade are you? What have you been reading for class?\nShakespeare?\n20th Century Plays?\nAmerican authors?\n\nNarrow it down some and you'll get better answers.
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Do your own homework. If you had a question about one quote where I could believe that you read the play but forgot the context of a single line, I would help you. As it is, you need to do your own work. Them's the rules. \n\nFurther, your questions should read: Can I get what these quotes mean and WHO is speaking to WHOM? \n\nClearly, English is not your favorite subject. But suck it up. You deserve no credit for work you ask others to do for you.
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shakespearean allusion is common in the text (look at the title: “Oh brave new world that has such people in it...” from The Tempest), also utopian irony ... try that for starters
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in shakespeare's time it was normal for grown men to have sex with young boys. homosexuality was not a concept back then. i love all the gender bending in shakespeare. he's awsome.
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Well, my friend did a paper about this actually and bent my ear about it. Basically what she said was Shakespear only had one Jew in his plays, and that was Shylock from the Merchant of Venice. and the answer she came up with was, maybe. there is not enough evidence to say one way or another if he was racist.
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Try to watch these information and then think!\nhttp://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=stratford+institute&btnG=Cerca+con+Google&meta=
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Well think about it -- what is going on at this point? Hamlet's father has died and his mother is marrying his uncle "hard upon" the heels of his father's death. Now Horatio tells Hamlet that he saw his father's ghost. What does Hamlet do? What state of mind is he in right now? What relationship does he have with Horatio? What questions does he ask Horatio? Please re-read the scene. It's all there in black and white.
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Try sparknotes.com you may be able to find an analysis of the play.\n\nPesonally, I sometimes need the extra help because I don't know what Shakespheare is talking about.
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Hey NiceGal\n\nWell I guess .. According to Shakespear "whats in a name" ... i.e "A Rose is a Rose is a Rose" even u call as a Rose or with any other name! It smells, looks and feels the same..\n\n  'U', 'ME' & 'SHAKESPEAR' different names , think n like the same ;-) HOW ROMANTIC ? \n Cheers,\nWebby.
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Jealousy is referred to as the "green-eyed monster" in a Shakespearean play.  I'm not sure which play it is right now, although I want to say it's Othello.  It might be a reference to Shakespeare.
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The English language has changed in many ways since Shakespeare's day, but he has been the standard of excellence for so long that there is less difference between his writing and contemporary writers than there is between someone else who wrote during his time and today's writers.  His themes have been used, and his details examined, for all that time.\n\nThe best way to understand Shakespeare is to get DVDs of movies like "The Taming of the Shrew" with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, or "Romeo and Juliet" with Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, that use the actual words of his plays.  They will give you a visual image and the emphasis on his words that you need in order to understand.  Unfortunately, we seldom see modern actors and actresses in America who know how to do Shakespeare well; the English have kept up with him better.  Try DVDs from BBC.  (All these initials!)  \n\nThe language is not that different, really; but the poetic nature of Shakespeare's plays adds to the difficulty.  Still, the effort to understand is worth it, because then you will see the point behind many more recent stories that have adapted the Shakespearean themes.\n\nEnjoy!
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I dunno if this'll help, but I thought I'd give it a try . . .\nI just read through Macbeth with my lil' bro a little while ago, and I'm rereading Othello now, and it's funny that you ask about the inevitability of prohecies and the first prophecy he gets, because even though there are no prophecies in Othello, Iago does say something about deals with the devil.\nI don't have the book on me, so I can't give a direct quote, but, Iago compares himself to a devil and says that the reason he tells the truth in the beginning of his evil scheme to bring about Othello's downfall is because a demon (or in Hamlet's case a witch) will give you bits of the truth in order to lure you into dealing with them.  That way you will think that they aren't evil, because an evil being would lie.  Does that make sense? \nSo when he saw the first prophecy come true without any action on his part, he thought it would be okay to help the rest of them along, because it was his destiny and not evil magic.  I think the irony is that whether or not he killed Duncan the prophecy should have come true.  Or maybe it was foretold that he would kill Duncan, and the witches just neglected to tell him that part, and knowing that he would, let Lady MacB goad him into it.\nI never read "The Bottle Imp", but it sounds interesting, I think I'll give it a try.\nHope that helps!
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Othello by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/othello/\n\nI have found 12 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=319\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Othello\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xOthello.html#Othello\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/othello001.html\n\nRoderigo and Brabantio soon arrive on the scene, with a number of armed followers. Othello greets them and remains calm, trying to appear friendly. Brabantio calls Othello a ‘foul thief’ and threatens to send him to prison. Othello explains with perfect courtesy and dignity that he cannot allow himself to be taken to prison, since he has been called to the council hall. When the old Senator realizes that the Duke has called a meeting, he goes at once to present his case against his daughter’s husband.  More………\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmOthello11.asp\n\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.