Shakespeare was a master of creating characters whose morality remained ambiguous throughout his plays. For instance, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice is an extremely unlikeable character, although his motivations are clear, making him more sympathetic. However, Shakespeare also knew how to write characters who could be nothing but likable. Antonio in Twelfth Night and Kent from King Lear are two of the most admirable characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Both are paragons of virtue, valuing honesty
Shakespeare to write this play. King Lear, for example, it mainly based of King Leir, a legendary king of the Britons, which was accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae in 1135. However, the play King Lear seems to be influenced and inspired by many historical events and lawsuits occurred in Britain at the time it was written. According to Historia Regum Britanniae, King Leir is a legendary king of ancient Britain. He does not have a male heir to inherit his kingdom so he decides to
Renaissance history plays are also known as early English plays and they mainly refer to William Shakespeare’s plays or plays of other famous people who wrote plays in the past. They may also be referred to as Elizabethan because they were mostly performed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Renaissance plays were performed in the medieval times traditions for example the mystery plays and they were mostly performed during religious occasions in England. This was during the middle ages and they
Manannan reappeared in Yeats's plays and the "Dungeons and Dragons" games. The "children of Lir / Llyr" were transformed into waterbirds in another Celtic myth. Anglo-Israelite lore describes ("Llyr Lleddiarth "Half-Speech", king of Siluria / the Britains, father of Bran the Archdruid, who married Anna, the daughter of Joseph of Arimathea; his close relatives included Cymbeline (Cunobelinus, fictionalized in Shakespeare's later play), and Caractacus (Caradoc), a well-attested historical figure better-known