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…and popularity that Romeo and Juliet and Julias Caesar brought him, he decided that more tragedies would do his reputation nothing but good. Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1605), Antony and Cleopatra (1606), Macbeth (1606), Troilus and Cresside (1602…

…of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear. Shakespeare created his plays with his unique venue in mind. After an absence of nearly 400 years from London's theater scene, Shakespeare's Globe rises again on the South Bank of the Thames River. Recreating this jewel…

…, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus. End of Globe Theatre: With good successes, Shakespeare went in semi-retirement at the age of 49, where he went to Stratford. Around this time, on 29th June 1613…

…viewed today. Hamlet, MacBeth, the Coronation Mass, Starry Night. Censorship would have eliminated these now classic works of art. During their point of conception, the masses did not see them as outstanding works, rather, many were seen as slightly above…

…Many novels have been written on the subject of power and its attainment. Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, is the story of a man driven to insanity and unspeakable violence in his quest for it. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, concerns…

…. Witches in Fiction From the stories of “Hansel and Gretel”to the classic film of “The Wizard of Oz”to the play, Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”- all of these fictions have the same antagonists…

…) Hamlet is not the only literary work in which de Vere describes his life. De Vere’s love affair with Anne de Vavasour is portrayed in Measure for Measure, and his own childhood is directly correspondent with Macbeth and Orthelo (Ogburn 11). Oxford died…

…accomplishments in his lyrical style. Many of Faulkner’s works can be compared to a number of classical works. For instance, The Mansion draws parallels to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which the main character struggles to, but cannot, escape the consequences of his…

…tragedy and comedy, and listed eleven plays that he had written (Ogburn 1974). Some of his more memorable plays include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Taming of the Shrew. When all of Shakespeare’s plays were written cannot be exactly pinned down…

…. There are a few witches who are always on the good side as in The Wizard of Oz (Stallman 28 - 43). One main writer who loved to write about witchcraft is William Shakespeare. He included witches in many of his poems and plays. In Macbeth he displays…