Passing Time in the Loo: Shakespeare - Summaries of Shakespeares Greatest Sonnets and Plays (Comedie

Shakespeare's sonnets

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  • William Shakespeare's Works/Tragedies/Romeo and Juliet
  • Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia
  • Four Tragedies
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  • Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

    • Juliet impatiently awaited the arrival of her husband, when her nurse came with the news: Then the nurse came with news from Juliet: She spoke of the murder and the vengeance it demanded.

    When Juliet balked at any such wedding, her father flared up in anger: There she met Paris, who was arranging for their forthcoming marriage. Though Juliet openly confessed to loving another, Paris mistook her words as a declaration towards him and promised that they would be married in bliss. After he left, Juliet turned to Friar Lawrence for help. Indeed, the Monk had a plan: He gave her a vial with a potion inside that would make her appear to be dead, but in reality would only bring on a long sleep.

    William Shakespeare's Works/Tragedies/Romeo and Juliet

    The Capulets rejoiced when Juliet returned home and told her family that she would consent to marry Paris. But on the evening before the wedding, Juliet partook of the potion, and the next morning, when the Friar and Paris came to seek the bride, they found the parents filled with grief. Rushing to Verona, the disheartened youth paused to purchase a vessel of poison. Recognizing Romeo, he drew his sword. The two fought and Paris was fatally wounded.

    In the throes of death, he pled with Romeo to lay him next to his love. Romeo hesitated, then dragged the other man inside the tomb so that he too could lie near Juliet. Arms, take your last embrace! Soon, Juliet awoke — to find her young husband lying next to her, dead. Just then the Friar entered, followed by the Montagues, the Capulets, and the Prince.

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    Before them lay Paris, along with the limp bodies of the two lovers. At once each family began to cast blame upon the other for the tragedy. The Friar, however, stepped forward and explained the circumstances which had led to the deaths of their tender children, whose only sin was to have loved.

    Capulet, Montague, see what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.

    For example, until this play romance had not been viewed as a worthy topic for tragedy. Arguments in favour of fate often refer to the description of the lovers as "star-crossed". But his genius made perennially delightful even the crude forms of confusion which create grotesque infatuations like those of Titania, Malvolio, Phoebe, Olivia. For it is plain that precisely the resolute pursuit of a resisting man was uncongenial to Shakespeare's riper art, because unnatural in the type of high-bred and refined womanhood whose ways in love reflected his ideal of healthy love-making. For example, Romeo and Juliet are mentioned in a song by Sublime titled Romeo , which portrays the Montague as a modern character pining for love in a modern way. The fear of death and the knowledge of the danger of their relationship is in this view channelled into a romantic passion. It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!

    At these words, the adversaries clasped hands in brotherhood. Although a Chorus begins the play by notifying the audience that these near-perfect lovers will in the end take their own lives, an irrational sense of hope remains that somehow they might escape their destiny.

    But the pride-hardened loathing between the feuding families leads the play to its inevitable tragic end. Moreover, though the drama is one of ultimate reconciliation, ironically, both families lose their only children — neither family line will be carried on.

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    The narrator describes the things that people agonise over as they descend into old age — all the regrets and the pain of reliving the mistakes he has made. This is a poem about loss; the loss of a loved one. When he was loved by the beloved it was like the glorious morning, but now, having lost the beloved, it feels like an overcast and gloomy morning. The narrator of Sonnet 73 is approaching death and thinking about how different it is from being young.

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    The things that one gave him life have destroyed his life. From that experience he has learnt that one has to love life as strongly as one can because it will end all too soon.

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    He shows time passing through the seasons and the years, everything changing. Except the beauty of the beloved. He goes further by saying that no matter how long the world will endure, even though the beloved is long dead there will never be another as beautiful. There are two striking definitions of love that we refer to again and again. Love is patient, love is kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

    Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

    Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Shakespeare ends by staking everything on his observations about love by asserting that if he is wrong about it then no-one ever wrote anything and no-one ever loved. Sonnet is an interesting take on the imperative force of lust, but its ultimate shallowness. Everyone knows how shallow and guilt producing lust is but very few men can avoid it.

    Shakespeare shows how lust brings out the very worst in people and the extremes they will go to.