Literature Homework

1. I have been Betrayed by one my friends who told another person everything i ever told that friend.During that time period we distanced ourselves from each other and spoke less and hanged out less than usual. Now the other person in which who was told now get on my last nerves because of knowing such information about me which just irritates me and chooses to blame me for my friend's absence after we tried to get to back acquainted with each other but i just forget it if since my friend was being brain washed by that person instead of listening to me !!!!

2. Yes i felt betrayed and misunderstood the situation due to hearing both sides of the story where I understood that some people just don't know when to grow up and act like young adults so that's why i felt the way i felt and misunderstood it.

3.The characters in Shakespeare's plays that one have studied appears to always violent, trickery and tardiness some that it is memorable and excited to the audiences and the readers such as Katharina and Petruchio in "Taming of the Shrew" and  King Hamlet ,Queen Gertrude the wife of King Hamlet,Prince Hamlet the son of King Hamlet, and Claudius his brother in "Hamlet".  Due to lust being one of the reoccurring themes in a Shakespeare play"Taming of the Shew" ;the character of the "shrew"—a word used to indicate an opinionated, domineering, and sharp-tongued woman by the name of Katharina was married to Petruchio who was boastful and selfish his and his behavior is extremely difficult to decipher that is he he never loved her her married her when he was drunk making it lust.  However, trickery came to play since he was only behaving in such a way to tame her . On the other hand in "Hamlet"  Claudius deceives his brother King Hamlet by killing him to that he could take his place in royalty or the lust for power and the fact that he lied to his nephew Prince Hamlet and Queen Gertrude and he also loved his brother wife which is jealousy. Deception, lust and jealousy are more major themes used in his plays which evilness ,tardiness and violence are the causes of such . Therefore, as a result of both "Hamlet" and Taming of the Shrew" one was able to depict why the characters display such personalities which allowed the reader and /or audiences to see Shakespeare's point of view.

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The Winter's Tale was one of Shakespeare's last plays, written in the years between 1608 and 1612 and the date in which it was performed was first performed between 1610 and 1610. In the Elizabethan era 

there was a huge demand for new entertainment and The Winter's Tale would have been produced immediately following the completion of the play. It was first printed in 1623 in the First Folio. As William Shakespeare clearly did not want his work published details of the play would have therefore been noted, and often pirated without his consent, following a performance.The settings for The Winter's Tale are Sicily and Bohemia and the theme of the play is categorised as a Comedy. It is said that the number of words within the play is 25,984 according to the Complete Public Domain Text. The protagonists were King Leontes and Perdita. The Famous quotes from the Winter's Tale are among-st Shakespeare's most famous including 'You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely' - (Act I, Scene I).

Shakespeare found the story in "Pandosto", written in 1588 by Robert Greene. Greene's reference to Shakespeare in his autobiography, Greene's "Groatsworth of Wit" (1592) referred to him as an "upstart crow".

5. The Elizabeth Theater didn't exist until 1576 but  plays were performed in the courtyards of inns and they were referred to as 'inn-yards'.James Burbage built the very first theatre in 1576 with his brother-in-law John Brayne, appropriately named 'The Theater'. The Elizabethan Theaters followed this style of architecture they were called amphitheaters. The Theater was also used for bear baiting, gambling and for immoral purposes. Elizabethan theaters attracted huge crowds  up to 3000 people.Queen Elizabeth came to power, the rise and formalization of English drama was supported and fostered as an inherent part of society. It was during her era that drama began to be recognized as a complex art form to be appreciated, loved and critiqued by the masses. As the literary aspect of Engand's culture began to flourish so too did the development/establishment of several theater.

The Globe theatre was built by a carpenter called Peter Smith together with his workforce. They started building in 1597 and it was finished in 1598

§   Many Londoners were strict Protestants - Puritans in fact, who abhorred the theatres and many of the people they attracted

§   Objections to the Theatres escalated from the Church and the City of London Officials
Respectable citizens added even more objections about the rise in crime and the bawdy nature of some of the plays, fighting, drinking not to mention the risk of so many people and the spread of the Bubonic Plague! In 1596 London's authorities were unwilling to ignore the growing complaints any longer and they banned the public presentation of plays and all Theatres within the City limits of London

§  All Theatres located in the City were forced to move to the South side of the River Thames

6. The Theater of the Absurd started in the late 1940's by the French and it proposes that in an atheistic universe, there is no real reason to human life and thus man-kind finds it hard to converse. There is no reason or logic in man's communication which leads to chaos and havoc; This dissonance eventually leads to silence.

This theatrical style highlights man's loneliness and his request to fight the metaphysical world. "Absurdist works utilise thetrical conventions such as - but not limited to - Mime, Gibberish, Heightened Language, Codified Language and Vignette." The arrangements usually lack struggles, and concentrate on contrast, alienation and irony.

7.William Shakespeare died April 23rd 1616 at the age of 52 in New Place, his house in Stratford upon Avon, England and was buried in Holy Trinity church in Stratford in which cause of death was unknownWilliam Shakespeare was born on 23rd of April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. It is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. Although the exact date is unknown, his birthday is celebrated on the 23rd of April. Elizabethan boys were at first sent to a 'Petty School' between the ages of 5 and 7 years old to start their education . However Shakespeare would have attended King Edward IV Grammar School in Stratford-upon-Avon from the age of 7 in 1571 and left school and formal education when he was fourteen in 1578. He was withdrawn from education in 1577 at the age of fourteen due to his father's financial problems. His Father’s name: John Shakespeare,Mother’s name: Mary Arden and he is has seven siblings, only Judith and four of his brothers survived to adulthood.

Shakespeare's works entail a few comedic plays including: 'All's Well That Ends Well' , 'As You Like It' (1599), 'Comedy of Errors' (1589), 'Love's Labour's Lost', 'Measure for Measure' (1604), 'Merchant of Venice', 'Merry Wives of Windsor' (1600), 'Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595), 'Much Ado about Nothing' (1598), 'Taming of the Shrew' (1593), 'Tempest' (1611), 'Twelfth Night' (1599), 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'(1594) and 'Winter's Tale' (1610). His Histories include: 'Cymbeline' (1609), 'Henry IV, Part I' (1597), 'Henry IV, Part II' (1597), 'Henry V' (1598), 'Henry VI, Part I' (1594), 'Henry VI, Part II' (1590), 'Henry VI, Part III' (1590), 'Henry VIII' (1612), 'King John' (1596), 'Pericles' (1608), 'Richard II' and 'Richard III' (1592). Whereas, a list of his tragedies include: 'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606), 'Coriolanus' (1607), 'Hamlet' (1600), 'Julius Caesar' (1599), 'King Lear' (1605) , 'Macbeth' (1605), 'Othello' (1604), 'Romeo and Juliet' (1594), 'Timon of Athens' (1607) , 'Titus Andronicus' (1593) and 'Troilus and Cressida' (1601).