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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon."

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How old is Friar Laurence in romeo and Juliet?

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His exact age is unknown but given his role in the play and described features he should be about 20-30 years old. the problem being the given the time period of which the tragety takes place he is most likely 30-40.

A good capon lin'd mean?

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Capon Lined: Type of chicken meat.

In fair round belly with good capon lined= Big round belly full of meat.

What upset Romeo most about being banished?

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What upset Romeo the most about being banished from Verona was the fact that he can't see Juliet anymore or he will be killed on the spot. He is also worried that if he is found with Juliet while in Verona that she will die with him.

Turn thee benvolio look upon thy death What Does This Mean?

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Tybalt: "What are you doing facing mere servants (Abraham and the other Capulet servant)? (Tybalt insults Benvolio for 'fighting' the Capulet servants and not a kinsman like him. He also makes a pun, "heartless hinds", referring the Montague servants, Sampson and Gregory, as peasants [hinds] who lack courage [heartless], nor a proper master/leader [hartless - sounds like heartless]) Turn around Benvolio, face your death."

Benvolio: "I am trying to make peace. Put up your sword (quit before it escalates into something worse and more dangerous), or use it to stop the servants from fighting."

Tybalt: "What? You drew your sword and talk about peace? I hate the word peace, like how I hate hell, all Montagues and you. Take this, you coward!"

Is Shakespeare a father?

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William Shakespeare was father to three children.

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What does shake off their sterile curse mean in Julius Caesar?

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You need to know the context here. Mark Antony is about to run in the traditional race to celebrate the Lupercal. The race course runs through the streets among crowds of people, especially women. Caesar says to Antony, "The barren, touched in this holy chase, Shake off their sterile curse." "Barren" means those who are unable to conceive or have trouble conceiving. Being barren is the "sterile curse" he is talking about. The superstition is that if a woman is touched by one of the runners in the race, the "holy chase", she will be more likely to have babies. Caesar would like his wife Calpurnia to have a baby and so encourages Antony to touch her.

How many times does the word 'Brain' appear in William Shakespeare's plays?

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Seventy-eight times. If you want to count "brains" that's another forty-four times. "Brain" or "brains" appears ten times in Cymbeline alone. How could anyone forget such lines as " art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation,

proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" from Macbeth.

What is the edmodo code?

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An edmodo code is a code to a group at your school. You use it to find out what you have for homework what tests there are.

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under?

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Macbeth needs to look innocent, but underneath his fake appearance, he needs to be bold, determined, and deadly. Lady Macbeth is also telling Macbeth to pretend to be a friend, when he is actually the enemy, or to act like he is honest, when he is actually deceitful. When Lad Macbeth says, "But be the serpent underneath it", Lady Macbeth might be referring to herself, that she is the serpent under Macbeth, and that Macbeth is the mask, or screen, which diverts attention from Lady Macbeth.

It shows how Macbeth needs to be the nice to Duncan to prove his innocence even though he has agreed to kill him- appearances can be deceiving.

How do you write an English sonnet?

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Let me give you the basics in the exact format:

This line's ending rhyme is a

This line's ending rhyme is b

This line's ending rhyme is a

This line's ending rhyme is b

This line's ending rhyme is c

This line's ending rhyme is d

This line's ending rhyme is c

This line's ending rhyme is d

This line's ending rhyme is e

This line's ending rhyme is f

This line's ending rhyme is e

This line's ending rhyme is f

This line's ending rhyme is g

This line's ending rhyme is g

Every line should be written in iambic pentameter, ti-DUM ti-DUM ti-DUM ti-DUM ti-DUM.

Use the first eight lines to set up the situation you wish your sonnet to comment on and then comment on it in the last six lines.

Or, use the first eight lines, the octet, to set up a situation, and use the last six lines, the sestet, to complicate the situation or express an opposite to the situation.

For instance, the octet might describe a person who is loved. The sestet might say that the person not attainable, or does not return the love. The octet might describe virtues, and the sestet might describe offsetting faults. Opposing viewpoints or problem-answer or request-denial, any of these are good uses of the turn at line nine in a sonnet, and is also called the volta.

What does Paris's page do to warn him someone is coming to Juliet's tomb?

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At the very beginning of Act 5 Scene 3 Paris gives specific instructions to the page as follows:

Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof:
Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.
Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along,
Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground;
So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,
Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,
But thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,
As signal that thou hear'st something approach.
Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go.

That is a lot of instructions. They are: 1. Give me the torch 2. Go away 3. Don't stand too close 4. Put out the torch. 5. Lie down under the yew tree. 6. Put your ear to the ground and listen for footsteps. 7. Whistle if you hear someone coming. 8. Give me the flowers.

What does the title the seven ages of man mean?

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It's not a poem. It's a speech from a play by William Shakespeare called As You Like It. The stages are an infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, an aging man ("the lean and slipper'd Pantaloon") and finally a senile and decrepit old man.

Who was king when Shakespeare was writing plays?

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After Elizabeth I, I believe it was James I

What kind of poems did William shakspeare write?

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http://www.sparknotes.com/ Is great! Just type in what play you want to look up at the top. This might not make sense, but if you see something listed with "No fear Shakespeare" then that is your best bet. (y)

What does the nurse instruct Juliet to do at the end of the scene?

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The nurse advises Juliet to forget Romeo and marry Paris.

Who is the holy pilgrim in Romeo and Juliet?

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Romeo compares himself to a holy pilgrim (and Juliet to a shrine) before their first kiss.

What does the prologue in act 1 say about fate in Romeo and Juliet?

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The phrases "star-crossed lovers" and "death-marked love" suggest that the love of Romeo and Juliet was fated to have tragic consequences.

What are the three apparations the witches show Macbeth?

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An armed head, a bloody child, a crowned child holding a tree. Each one is related to the prophecy it utters: the warrior head warns about Macduff; the child covered in blood from being delivered by C-section, warns about someone "not of woman born"; the child with a crown represents the son of a king, that is, Malcolm, and, while assuring Macbeth that he cannot be defeated until a forest comes to Dunsinane, by carrying a tree he shows how that could happen.

What did the family have to do with Romeo and juilet death?

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By the family, I presume you mean the Capulet's and the Montagues. In which case, had the families not hated each other then Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have had to hide their relationship. And therefore Juliet would have never had to fake her death, which Romeo, missing the message of the plan, mistook for her actual death, and therefore killed himself.

However had the families feud not been, the two 'star crossed lovers' would have never had had to hide their love.

However Romeo may have only been interested in Juliet because she was a Capulet, and therefore a 'forbidden fruit' (sorry for that horrible phrase) But it would have been a kick in the face for the Capulets to find out that their daughter had been in an affair with a Montague. And so it can be said that the only reason why Romeo became interested in Juliet in the first place was because of the families feud.

(A little off track at the end, sorry :D)

What reason does romeo give to avoid capulat's party?

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There are four scene fours in the play. You must state which Act you mean. However since the only scene four that takes place before Capulet's feast is Act 1 Scene 4, I'll assume that is what you mean. In this scene he says, "my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels". As a somewhat different excuse, he says "I am not for this ambling, Being but heavy", and "I have a soul of lead" and "I am too sore empierced with [Cupid's] shaft to soar with his light feathers", all of which appears to refer to his conversation with Benvolio in Act 1 Scene 1