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    between Juliet and Capulet. In the Elizabethan era women were treated less than men because it was the patriarchal society and this means that men are in charge. This is relevant to the question because an Elizabethan audience will be expecting a relationship like this from Juliet and Capulet because it’s the patriarchal society. An Elizabethan audience are different from a modern day one because‚ an Elizabethan audience would be expecting Capulet to be an Elizabethan character and therefore we had lot

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    English Essay The Elizabethan Worldview and Much Ado About Nothing Audrey Hernandez The Elizabethan Era is one of the most fascinating periods in the History of the World. It is named after one of the greatest of the Queens of England - Queen Elizabeth I. It was the era of the very first Theatres in England - William Shakespeare and the globe Theatre and Christopher Marlowe! It also had a very different feel and look to it than we experience nowadays and this is shown in the marriage and wedding

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    friends‚ Ariel Froles‚ worked in a very interesting project called “POWER POINT”.Power Point is computer program which helps you to tell a powerful story and share your slides on the web. Our project “CRIME AND PUNISHMENT DURING THE ELIZABETHAN ERA”. was very interesting because we learned a lot of thing about crime and punishment. We learned that ’’CRIME’’ “was an action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law and also we learned

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    Mitchell I strongly agree with your review of the film adaptation of ‘Othello’. It is evident that the director tried to make Othello “more lifelike by [bringing} it down to a younger audience.” This is attempted through drug abuse: a contemporary Elizabethan audience would not be able to relate to this as it is a recent convention. This is much more identifiable to today’s society. However‚ the outside influence of drugs completely eradicates Iago’s linguistic manipulation. Shakespeare is renowned for

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    challenged the cultural values and assumptions of the role‚ rights and power of women during the Elizabethan period. The typical role of Elizabethan women of looking after the household and handling the kids is contradicted; the rights of Elizabethan women are defied; and the power of Elizabethan women in the household and the society is taken to new extents. The role‚ rights and power of Elizabethan women is confronted upon with the use of the female characters in the play Macbeth as well as the

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    the Elizabethan era the expectations of men and women were clear. Generally‚ men were to be the bread winner for his family and the women were meant to be mothers and housewives."Women were expected to be silent‚ chaste‚ and obedient to their husbands‚ fathers‚ brothers‚ and all men in general. Patriarchal rule justified women’s subordination as the natural order because women were thought to be physiologically and physiologically inferior to men"(Roles of Women‚ literary-articles) Elizabethan women

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    play‚ “King Richard III” [KRIII]. The change in context often offers a fresh perspective to the differences between the Elizabethan audience and the contemporary audience‚ and how they perceive what values are presented within the play. This perception also allows these values to transcend time. In KRII‚ Richard’s evil dual personality was an inconceivable concept to the Elizabethan audience. They viewed Richard as a renowned villain of history during the War of the Roses‚ and only as a villain within

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    so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the inkpot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing”. Thus thought Mrs. Grimsditch‚ a housekeeper in Virginia Woolf’s sixth novel “Orlando”. Being a woman of the Elizabethan era‚ she quite obviously was ignorant to the advantages of education. The English Renaissance however‚ saw a marked increase in the numbers of women writers. While few works are known to have been published by women in England before 1500‚ over one

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    and schools were important in the Elizabethan Era. It was generally for boys in the upper and middle classes. However‚ girls in the upper classes were also given an education. The education and schools of the Elizabethan Era was based on the types of education children learned‚ where they would be taught‚ and religion. First of all‚ the different types of education depended on their age. The first thing that they learned by the age of 5 during the Elizabethan Era was respecting their parents‚ table

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    text and their respective audience. The Elizabethan and twentieth century contexts in each of these texts are important as it demonstrates the value of each text and enables the understanding of how the film enriches the ideas presented in the play. Shakespeare’s ‘King Richard III’ portrays a malicious and corrupted Richard to explore the themes of divine justice and the notion of outer appearance versus inner reality in the theocentric context of the Elizabethan society. Four centuries later‚ Al Pacino’s

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