Fate In Love

One of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Romeo and Juliet, was first titled The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. It is said that Shakespeare’s inspiration for Romeo and Juliet comes from the story of Mariotto and Gianozza by Masuccia Salernitano. It was also the first play about romantic love. As one of the most renowned of his plays, it has been adapted into many forms and one of the most performed plays known to man (Shakespeare Facts: 50 Interesting Facts About William Shakespeare). Hamlet is Shakespeare’s longest and most ... ... middle of paper ... ... tragedy until Romeo and Juliet.

The play was performed December 26, 1606, for King James, as part of the court's Christmastide celebrations, as well as on the public stage at the Globe. Recoiling from the bleakness of the play's tragic vision, Naham Tate revised it in 1681, providing interpolated love scenes between Edgar and Cordelia and a happy ending in which Lear and Cordelia survive: his version held the stage for a century and a half. Dr. Samuel Johnson and the Romantic poets testified to the original play's greatness--Shelley terming it "the most perfect specimen of dramatic poetry existing in the world"--but they also began a critical tradition that judged the work too large and sublime for the stage. Lear has, however, proved notably successful in the modern theatre, accustomed to nonrealistic stage techniques and Samuel Beckett's apocalyptic dramas as well as to the contemporary horrors of concentration camp and Gulag. - Norton, 888 Summary of King Lear ACT I This tragedy play tells of the downfall of King Lear and the death of his daughter Cordelia.

Shakespeare was born in 1564 in England, and lived a life span of fifty two years, passing away in 1616. While Shakespeare was born near the end of the Renaissance era, and was the first to bring about the time’s core value’s to stage, he also composed a series of sonnets, even having his own sonnet known as the Shakespearean Sonnet. Love was a focal point, any poet who was a great poet wrote about love, and falsely compared it to perfection in the eye of the composer. Shakespeare himself wrote about perfection in the features of his lover; however in Sonnet 130, he explores a different, deeper truer side to love. Despite his mistress’s physical flaws, he loves her incomparably.

The title page of the first quarto edition of Romeo and Juliet (1597) describes the play as 'An excellent conceited tragedy'. Two years later, the Lord Chamberlain's Men released their 'newly corrected, augmented, and amended' text, calling it a 'most excellent and lamentable tragedy'. These qualifying terms prepare us for much in the play. 'Lamentable' had been the label fixed to Titus Andronicus, while 'conceited' (i.e. 'witty') connects the piece with Love's Labour's Lost - a play that also appeared in an 'official' edition in 1599.

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” Mignon McLaughlin William Shakespeare: “Juliet’s Soliloquy”: Romeo and Juliet “Juliet’s Soliloquy” was written by William Shakespeare around 1595. William Shakespeare, the Great Stratford Bard, was an English poet and playwright. Shakespeare’s legendary works were the product of his life experiences that reveals why he chose this career. Although Shakespeare is known for many of his poems, “Juliet’s Soliloquy” from Romeo and Juliet, has many illustrative characteristics such as love, fear, passion, and hate. This poem allows readers to visualize a picture of his passionate and spiritual beliefs in life.

I decided to write on my essay on Eugene O’ Neill because he has contributed so much to the field of theatre. Eugene O'Neill's greatest plays, was presented by the National Theatre in 2003 celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the playwright's death. A reworking of the “Oresteia” trilogy by Aeschylus and the Electra tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides, O’Neill’s epic American tragedy of hatred, passion, jealousy and greed is set in New England after the Civil War. Using Freud’s theories, as O’Neill had done earlier in “Strange Interlude,” he now views classical drama (as had Freud) as a rich field for exploration of character motivation. Eugene did so much for theatre; he also was the first American dramatist to regard the stage as a literary medium and the first U.S. playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Analysis of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra The most influential writer in all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a successful middle-class glove maker in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare attended grammar school, but his formal education proceeded no further. In 1582 he married an older woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three children with her. Around 1590 he left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright. Public and critical acclaim quickly followed, and Shakespeare eventually became the most popular playwright in England and part-owner of the Globe Theater.

William Shakespeare was playwright and poet, as he is widely regarded as the greatest writer in English Language. Also, Shakespeare is the world’s most excellent dramatist as he named as “Bard of Avon” and English’s national poet. Furthermore, William Shakespeare was born on the twenty-six of April on 1564; he was an English playwright and poet. He get married at the age of eighteen years old with Anne Hathaway and he had three children; the twins Judith and Hamnet and Susanna. (Robinson, 2008) According to Argent (2007), Shakespeare wrote many works, including some collaboration, which comprise of thirty-eight plays, two narrative poems, a small number of other verses and one hundred fifty-four sonnets.

Context of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet [IMAGE] Likely the most influential writer in all of English literature and certainly the most important playwright of the English Renaissance, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. The son of a successful middle-class glove-maker, Shakespeare attended grammar school, but his formal education proceeded no further. In 1582, he married an older woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three children with her. Around 1590, he left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright. Public and critical acclaim quickly followed, and Shakespeare eventually became the most popular playwright in England and part owner of the Globe Theater.

Romeo and Juliet are to Blame for Their Own Deaths Shakespeare is said to be one of the greatest sonnet and playwrights of the last millennium. In this assignment I am going to explore and write about one of Shakespeare's most famous and talked about plays "Romeo and Juliet". Shakespeare didn't only write tragedies (Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy as we will see in throughout this task). He also wrote comedies, sonnets, love and many other different styles of play. Throughout the assignment I am going to delve deeply and go into detail about every aspect of the statement "are Romeo and Juliet to blame for their own deaths?"