Shakespeare, William

The documents contain various reviews from different critics on Shakespeares plays and poems.

The materials include three articles analyzing the choice in ages for Shakespeare's characters and discussing what classification each character would have. One document talks about adolescent characters in his plays, and the other two discuss older characters and the difference between old age and young.

The document discusses the English's opinion on the city of Florence and the Florentines and how that reflected through Shakespeares' plays.

The documents discuss the view that Shakespeare and his audiences had during the Elizabethan era in regards to race as reflected through The Merchant of Venice and Othello. It also compares earlier viewpoints to modern viewpoints through various examinations of modern productions.

The document discusses the writing styles of Shakespeare and Shaw and examines how they compare to each other.

The document draws a connection between Shakespeare’s character of Julius Caesar and Woodrow Wilson and lists similarities and differences seen between the two men's lives.

The document discusses Shakespeare’s uses of style, imagination, and poetry in his works and how those uses can create a long-lasting legacy.

The document discusses Shakespeare's word choice regarding feasts and meals and how he uses similar words in different contexts in other plays and how the meanings change.

The material includes a document discussing the types of people who saw Shakespeare's shows and the types of emotions that the different social statuses felt as they watched his stories unfold. H. S. Bennet wrote it for the Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy.

The article discusses iterative imagery and how Shakespeare uses it throughout his many plays, both as an undersong and a touchstone.