Sentences with phrase «shakespeare using»

But it is senseless to read Shakespeare using modern definitions for the words.

Computer studies only add to the stupefaction: nearly half of Shakespeare's words were what scholars call hapax legomena, that is, words that Shakespeare used only once, having found the one right location for their perfect use and never needing them again.

Potential confusion aside, it turns out Shakespeare uses some absolutely gorgeous names for his characters.

For example, given the old vocabulary that Shakespeare uses, referring to the notes is a big help in understanding his plays.

Just imagine stepping inside buildings where Shakespeare used to visit, or strolling along the foggy streets that sets a new Sherlock story.

My classmates could barely read the Elizabethan English that Shakespeare used, and I remember thinking that it was so sad that my classmates couldn't appreciate classic literature.

Not exact matches

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.

If you can not write in prose that has some measure of wit, best not to try at all... read some Shakespeare... he was a master of using the written word to express a wide variety of emotion and tone.

To use an analogy previously developed by Stephen Barr, to ask whether God or evolution created life is like asking whether Shakespeare or Hamlet killed Polonius.

We humans are aware of change in personal development, as described in Shakespeare's «seven ages of man»; so we are used to planning for the next day, the next year or even for a lifetime as when, in early adulthood, we choose a career or a spouse.

In speaking of «recent scholars who have used the new scholarship,» Miola kindly mentions my name as a «Jesuit who detects Jesuit influence on the playwright in The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays (1997) and other works.»

Using Shakespeare instead of the scriptures as the source for their text, but without reading the passage to the end, they said with Hamlet:

Instead, Austen, like Shakespeare, explores the phenomenon of individualism using the trope of «acting.»

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).

But even among those who have no desire to address the Bard using Juliet's term for her Romeo («thy gracious self, the god of my idolatry») and who also feel no desire to enroll in what Harold Bloom calls the School of Resentment, Shakespeare's achievement is extraordinarily difficult to specify.

Then there is his pace of production: according to commonly accepted dating techniques» using the known dates of Shakespeare's forced retreats from London during the plague years, the year of his final retirement to Stratford, allusions to current events in the plays, and so forth» it seems that during his working life in London he wrote on average two plays each year until the death of Elizabeth in 1603, when the pace slackened to about one play per year during the Jacobean reign.

[1] Furthermore, the above meaning is based on a misunderstanding of the meaning of the word «protest» as it was used in Shakespeare's day, as the «protest» of the lady is not a protest in the modern sense of the word, but an affirmation or avowal.

Second, using a quote for shakespeare as «proof» that when someone protests too much, it's a sign that they believe the opposite is asinine, even for you.

One answer to this question lies in Shakespeare's use of a book with which most of us now have only a passing acquaintance, but which profoundly shaped his view of both this world and the other - worldly: the Book of Common Prayer.

@davidnz: thanks for the correction but I thought Shakespeare also used the same.

On Clark Island, the Park District will restore the 70 - year - old stone picnic shelter and footbridges, remove the wooden stage attached to the shelter and build a seating wall with steps for spectators to use during Shakespeare in the Park performances.

It was a name that was also used in the Elizabethan era and Shakespeare actually used the name for one of his characters in his play Macbeth.

Shakespeare even used Ralph in Henry IV and it was also used The Portrait of A Lady, but despite Ralph's history, it has yet to make a comeback and will most likely get shot down by dad pretty quickly.

If you look at literature like Shakespeare, and at some historical figures like Sir William Johnson (a prominent pre-revolutionary leader in New York), you get the impression that it used to be normal for men, even much older men, to be interested in teenage girls.»

Please let's have a more grown - up debate where we use the language of Shakespeare with a bit more flexibility.»

Hunter says that Shakespeare explores how «we use our eyes and mind to find reason and love», which is why she used these skills in games.

«We should be using it to store the best humanity has ever had to offer, like the works of Michelangelo, Beethoven, Schubert and Shakespeare,» he says.

Using Shakespeare's contributions as a guide, he identified 24 points of similarity between «Sir Thomas More» and «The Spanish Tragedy,» a play republished, with new material, at about the time of «Hamlet.»

For example, with words like «spotless» and «darkness» Shakespeare would use a single «s.» Past - tense words like «wrapped» and «blessed» he ended with a «t» (i.e. «wrapt,» «blest»).

It's a non-medic who doesn't understand and yes, yes, yes, wouldn't it be great with [if] all doctors could quote Shakespeare, but wouldn't it be a little better if they actually knew how to use a scalpel?

Can't we have physicians who can use a scalpel and quote Shakespeare?

As for religion, though Shakespeare often alludes to biblical stories, he never once uses the word «bible.»

«Using this approach, we will eventually be able to do the same thing you would do in English class — pick up a book of haiku or Shakespeare and understand that «this is a love poem,» or «this is an elegy,» because we'll understand how the words — the DNA elements — are used in different contexts to convey different meanings on the regulation of genes,» Arnosti said.

«It may be Emily Dickinson, or Shakespeare or Allen Ginsberg; but all are using «words» to evoke thoughts and emotions, to control the message,» he said.

Scientists are most fascinated by the older brain's activation of the hippocampus because this area is generally used for more complicated memory tasks such as learning lines from a Shakespeare play.

Pliny the Elder remarked that honeybees were «delighted with this herb above others,» and it was a frequent muse of busy - bee William Shakespeare, who credited its many uses in several of his major works.

The name was used by Shakespeare as the name of the heiress in the play Twelfth Night.

It's typical of Skyfall writer John Logan's intertextual wit that Frankenstein uses Shakespeare to pick his creature's monikers: Proteas and, more curiously, Caliban.

Set in the 11th century and using Shakespeare's original dialogue, the film follows General Macbeth (Michael Fassbender), whose ambitious wife (Marion Cotillard) urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king.

Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.

This ain't Shakespeare, folks, but it's fun, has some good gags you can use over and over again (Dan's office is apparently rife with Zoolander quotes), and hey, there's a sex scene with a Finnish dwarf.

The 44 - year - old Bad Moms star was joined by Tom Hanks, Finn Wittrock, Brett Dalton, Smokey Robinson, Martin Short and Patrick Warburton at the reading of «Much Ado About Nothing» benefiting The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles and its arts - based veterans and youth employment programs: using the power of Shakespeare and the community of theatre.

Even more daring, he tackles one of Shakespeare's lesser - known works, Coriolanus, and then adapts it to modern times, using guns, war, and CNN - style TV coverage.

Directed by handsome drama maestro John Madden («Shakespeare in Love,» «The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel») and positioned as a cross between «Michael Clayton» and «All the President's Men,» the movie features morally bankrupt D.C. power players and blackmail scenes set in shady parking garages, making inspired use of genre clichés even as it offers a relatively fresh look at one of the most manipulative forces on Capitol Hill today: the special - interest lobbyist.

Thing is, most people have been using «the Rashamon effect» for decades now, and «Ran» is in fact an adaptation of Shakespeare's «King Lear» so why anyone would purchase rights to it when «Lear» is in the public domain is beyond me.

As someone who could use a couple of reads to fully digest and understand a scene of Shakespeare, what I took from one watch of this moment is that the men were in the company of one woman who loves a man, but refuses to tell him of the affection.

The rest of the movie works because of its wonderful wit and imaginative use of Shakespeare's works.

All the actors speak «American» English using Shakespeare's words.

The real strength of all Shakespeare plays is his clever use of words, much of which have been rather lost in this production.

6:05 am — IFC — A Midsummer Night's Dream This version of Shakespeare's magical comedy is a tad on the over-produced side, but there's a lot to like from Stanley Tucci's unusual Puck and Rupert Everett's sly Oberon to the reimagining of the faeries through the lens of Bacchus legends and the use of popular operatic arias on the soundtrack.