For an illustration, I felt betrayed when a very close family member of mine told a serious lie on me that I said something that was not true. It felt has if someone reached into my chest and ripped my heart right out. It hurts even more when it's family. However, I then confronted the person as to find out the reason for doing such evil deed.
At least one point in our lives we all have felt betrayed by someone but have totally misunderstood the whole situation. Well as for me I surely did, when I thought that my friend betrayed me by leaving a package for me behind after she told me that she would carry it along with her. I felt so bad and disappointed with her of thinking that she could do such horrible thing to someone that she called her 'FRIEND'. But I found out later that I had totally misunderstood the situation because when I thought that she had all ready left but the fact that she had been late due to certain circumstance. I felt so bad after the whole situation because at first deep down I knew that she would have never done something like that to me in a million years to come. Thus, one must be totally sure about something before jumping to wrong conclusions.
In the play entitled "Much Ado About Nothing" by William Shakespeare the characters seemed to be tricky or evil because of the their personal role in the play. For instance, Don John the bastard brother of Don Pedro was evil because his brother was the Prince of Aarogan while he was a servant to his brother. In other words he had to take orders from his brother which made him inferior to his brother. As a result, he wanted revenge on his brother and Claudio by playing tricks and evil plans because he was treated like no body.
Winter's Tale
"Winter's Tale" is based on a royal family that suffered a tragic lost as a result of a member of the family tragedy but had been reconciled at the end of the text which results in an happily ever after. On the other hand, in England around the same time that the book has written England had long gone a time without a full royal family. Although Elizabeth was the queen prior that time (1603) she was unwed and had no children that one could be symbolic to a common English family. However, England adored and worshiped her because she was a majestic virgin queen. As a result, this event had influenced Shakespeare to write the play "Winter's Tale."
The Elizabethan Threatre
Elizabethan theatre is a general term covering the plays written and performed publicly in England during the reign (1558 - 1603) of Queen Elizabeth I. The term can be used more broadly to also include theatre of Elizabeth's immediate successors, James I and Charles I, until the closure of public theaters in 1642, with the onset of the Civil War.
History
Elizabethan theater derived from several sources. A crucial source was the mystery plays that were part of religious festivals in England and other parts of Europe during the Middle Ages. The mystery plays were complex retellings of legends based on biblical themes, originally performed in churches but later becoming more linked to the secular celebrations that grew up around religious festivals. Other sources include the morality plays that evolved out of the mysteries, the "University drama" that attempted to recreate Greek tragedy. Later, in the 17th century, the Commedia dell'arte and the elaborate masques frequently presented at court came to play roles in the shaping of public theater.
The Global Theater
History
Elizabethan theater derived from several sources. A crucial source was the mystery plays that were part of religious festivals in England and other parts of Europe during the Middle Ages. The mystery plays were complex retellings of legends based on biblical themes, originally performed in churches but later becoming more linked to the secular celebrations that grew up around religious festivals. Other sources include the morality plays that evolved out of the mysteries, the "University drama" that attempted to recreate Greek tragedy. Later, in the 17th century, the Commedia dell'arte and the elaborate masques frequently presented at court came to play roles in the shaping of public theater.
Temporary companies of players attached to households of leading noblemen and performing seasonally in various locations existed before the reign of Elizabeth I. These became the foundation for the professional players that performed on the Elizabethan stage. The tours of these players gradually replaced the performances or the mystery and morality plays by local players, and a 1572 law eliminated the remaining companies lacking formal patronage by labelling them as vagabonds. At court as well, the performance of masques by courtiers and other amateurs, apparently common in the early years of Elizabeth, was replaced by the professional companies with noble patrons, who grew in number and quality during her reign.
The Theater of the Absurd
The Theater of the Absurd according to Wikipedia refers to is a theatrical style originating in France in the late 1940's. It relies heavily on existential philosophy, and is a category for plays of absurdist fiction, written by a number of playwrights from the late 1940s to the 1960s, as well as the theatre which has evolved from their work. It expresses the belief that, in a godless universe, human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down. Logical construction and argument give way to irrational and illogical speech and as its ultimate conclusion, silence.
William Shakespear Biography
William Shakespeare was one of the greatest play wright of all time. He was the son of John Shakespeare, a professional Glover and alderman from Snitterfield and Mary Arden. Shakespeare was the third child and was the eldest surving son. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford, Avon on April,1564.In addition most biographers assumed that Shakespeare was probably educated at the King's New School in Stratford in 1533, which was located quarter mile from his home.
Skakespeare got married at 18 years old to Anne Hathaway, 26 years old. Six months afterwords the couple gave birth to daughter, Susanna and was baptized 26th of May 1583. Two years later twins, son Hamnet and daughter, Judith arrived and was baptized on the 2nd day of February 1585. However, at the age of 11 Hamnet died due to unknown causes and was laid to rest on August 11, 1596.
Shakespeare wrote several plays and namely:
Before 1594
Henry VIRichard III
Titus Andronicus
Love's Labour's Lost
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Comedy of Errors
The Taming of the Shrew
1594-1997
Romeo and JulietA Midsummer Night's Dream
Richard II
King John
The Merchant of Venice
1597-1600
Henry IV part i
Henry IV part ii
Henry V
Much Ado About Nothing
Merry Wives of Windsor
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Troylus And Cressida
1601-1608
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Measure For Measure
All's Well That Ends Well
Othello
Lear
Macbeth
Timon OFAthens
Anthony And Cleopatra
Coriolanus
After 1608
Pericles
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
Henry VIII
Poems includes:
- Venus and Adonis (1593)
- The Rape Of Lucrece (1594)
- Sonnets (1609)
- A Lover's Complaint (1609)
- The Phoenix And The Turtle (1601)
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