Sentences with phrase «does shakespeare»

OCR said about 14,000 students out of around 700,000 took the exam, but it is not clear how many tackled the question, which asked students: «How does Shakespeare present the ways in which Tybalt's hatred of the Capulets influences the outcome of the play?

8:00 am / 7:00 am — IFC — Throne of Blood Akira Kurosawa does Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Did Shakespeare have one purpose in his books?

We have more manuscript evidence that Jesus» words are His own than we do that Shakespeare's words were his own!

And bow did Shakespeare wind up among Professor Schwartz's exemplars of the Power of Positive Thinkers in Western Lit?

«Who wants to do some Shakespeare?»

I just did a Shakespeare audition last weekend, so I am a lover of the Bard:) And Vanessa, what a gorgeous swag you have on your mantel — I love the way you hung it, and that champagne bucket with the cranberries is just perfect on your sideboard.

It was kind of like watching Larry, Moe and Curly do Shakespeare.

Critics have seemingly cooled on Tarantino's pop culture patchwork technique over the years, mistaking cleverness for ironic detachment and his singularly innovative mode of theory - to - practice film geekery for plagiaristic slapdash kitsch just as Tarantino is reaching personal heights as an auteur, and it begs the question: did Shakespeare have to deal with cooler - than - thou backlash from his detractors?

And, like most American actors, the ones here tear into white - trash comedies the way some Brits do their Shakespeare - like they're starving.

Born in South Africa and raised in England, Rathbone learned his trade doing Shakespeare in repertory and moved to Hollywood in the early 1930s.

With a hunchback - sized chip on his shoulder about being an American trying to «do Shakespeare», he mocks the featured British academics, while getting all Method and emotional with his fellow Americans.

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare?

Ray received critical acclaim for his work on the stage for doing Shakespeare and for playing Tom Robinson in «To Kill a Mockingbird» and Muhammad Ali in an Off - Broadway production of «Fetch Clay, Make Man.»

Modenbach recalls how an art project constructed around Romeo and Juliet spurred one special education student to ask «Did Shakespeare write anything else?»

Who are the mechanicals and why did Shakespeare choose that name?

How did Shakespeare manage to use 23,000 different words in his plays?

I just did a Shakespeare audition last weekend, so I am a lover of the Bard:) And Vanessa, what a gorgeous swag you have on your mantel — I love the way you hung it, and that champagne bucket with the cranberries is just perfect on your sideboard.

Not exact matches

When I got there I had a resumé and 10 years doing half of Shakespeare's canon.

Here Shakespeare's a faithful example of our western tradition, which does not honor what is merely inherited.

Now Shakespeare wrote that, but he didn't say it.

When it comes to using writing to tame your stressed out brain, you don't have to be Shakespeare — there are no points for style.

In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.

When cheap imports dropped the bottom out of that industry I picked up a fast - food manager training program, and three years later wound up in college where I did very well (including, of all things, enjoying learning about Shakespeare and Henry Clay!)

Just because you blog, doesn't mean they will visit Michael shares that great writing without shameless self promotion is like locking Shakespeare in your basement.

Did Homer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Twain, Joyce, etc. contribute any knowledge / value to the human experience?

Reading Shakespeare will do just as well if not better.

When all is said and done, Shakespeare (or Goethe or Henry James or Proust — name your master) doesn't offer a religion — much less a «universal and unifying culture» — of which most people would care to be members, even if it would have them.

Which was purest nonsense, as I tried to point out, since the playgoers know they're hearing Shakespeare's words but the people in the pew do not know they're hearing John Smith's.

Hence Shakespeare's sister, writing in a world where gender did not debilitate, would have written plays the equal of her brother's plays.2 The Harlequin romances are the equal of Faulkner's fiction as expressions of American culture.

I even have a problem with «Literature as Literature»: Reading King Lear, I don't think about Shakespeare; reading Paradise Lost, my eye is not on Milton, but the creation.

But it does not value Shakespeare more highly than pornography.

I fear that I have not done it justice, rather as if I had said, «There are some interesting facets of English and Roman history, and many details of world geography,» when writing of the plays of Shakespeare.

Surely William Shakespeare did not set out to write great literature, nor Handel to write classical music; nor did the mother of John and Charles Wesley, when she spanked them for mischief, say to herself, «I am training up the leaders of Methodism.»

If there is a Shakespeare, however, his existence as the creator of the literary Denmark does not obviate the drama of the play.

Such bromides may be his idea of timeless «spiritual truths,» but I don't think this approach reveals much about Shakespeare, especially as his evidence consists solely of passages wrenched out of context, and therefore rendered quite meaningless.

I do agree, however, that Shakespeare scholars need to have a sound knowledge of the religious background of the age and that very little is known for certain about Shakespeare and his religion.

My reticence to declare Shakespeare's religious affiliation also disturbs David Beauregard, who writes that I may be setting the «bar of proof absurdly high,» and who wonders why the Catholic patterns I find in the plays do not persuade me of the playwright's personal confession.

As a playwright, Shakespeare responds in any given work to many immediate literary, economic, cultural, and theatrical exigencies that have nothing to do with his personal beliefs.

Shakespeare did it in the sixteenth.

This production does not shed any new light on the play's themes, but wisely focuses on Shakespeare's wit and warmth, allowing the audience to delight in the escapades and truisms of some of the canon's most beloved characters and draw their own conclusions.

It doesn't say anything about the veracity of the manuscript, no more than copies of Shakespeare contribute to proving that Romeo and Julliet happened.

My example is the ongoing speculation about who really did write the plays and poetry attributed to William Shakespeare.

Or rather, perhaps in his celebration of the negro spiritual, he was speaking about music which rises above the «color line» in the same way that he says Shakespeare and Goethe do.

Some months ago a comment on plagiarism was titled, «He who steals my words...» In response to a reader who complained that the title itself was semi-plagiarized, I rather snippily said that anyone who didn't recognize the Shakespeare reference shouldn't be reading the journal.

But because Shakespeare rarely uses an actor whose sole role is to play the chorus, he avoids the danger of didacticism, and lets the wisdom embed itself in the action of the play (which is why so many of Shakespeare's characters, including even Iago, both seem and do not seem to express the playwright's viewpoint).

None of this can prove anything about William Shakespeare's own private convictions, but we do know that his daughter was fined for recusancy and that William and his fiancée Anne Hathaway married not in his Stratford church but in Temple Grafton, five miles from his birthplace.

By «adversity», I don't simply mean what Shakespeare calls «the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to».

If you don't remember, each of Shakespeare's comedies end happily with marriage, all except for one: Love's Labour's Lost.

Why on Earth did Jeanette Winterson Agree to Retell Shakespeare's Winter's Tale?