Much Ado About Nothing Love Story Shakespeare My first impression of Much Ado About Nothing is that it would be a love story. Although it is categorised as a Shakespearean comedy, I found the many "funny" parts of the play were foggy and required you to read the scene over a few times before you understood them. But then again, I had to read the whole scene over again a few times to understand anything. All of the characters in Much Ado About Nothing seemed to develop a personality of their own from the very first scene. It also helped that I saw the movie version of Much Ado About Nothing before we read the play so I could almost get a picture in my head as to what each character looked like.
Literature is a medium of words, and film is a medium of images, so, I can understand why the two characters show their love physically and don’t completely leave it up to the speech to show their feelings. Both scenes worked; however, Luhrmann’s received harsh criticism while Zeffirell’s was emotionally captivating. The Elizabethan 16th century England setting stays true to Shakespeare’s original play, and sets a classic tone and atmosphere. The magic of Zeffirelli’s film is it takes you into another world, the beautiful scenery of Verona with the, for the most part, comprehensible language of Shakespeare. Mixing a modern day world with this language, what Luhrmann did, does not work well.
In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the appearance of Banquo’s ghost, which indicates Macbeth’s guilty conscience, is known to be one of the most significant scenes within the play. In fact, there are many adapted versions of this famous scene, all in which Macbeth is threatened with the memory of Banquo. Two of these forms are 1) a filmed performance from the Brooklyn Academy of Music that was directed by Rupert Goold and 2) the graphic novel adaption by Ken Hoshine titled No Fear Shakespeare. Both adaptations have important scenes that match Shakespeare’s original vision, but the form that is a more faithful representation of Shakespeare's work is the graphic novel. Nevertheless, the film adaption known as Macbeth is a suitable remake of the initial scene.
Relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Shakespeare uses insightful language and structures his drama text immensely well, to entertain and engage the reader to the characters and show there relationships. Shakespeare uses prose throughout his drama text to help connect with the viewer. We also see a constant power struggle between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth in their relationship, this is clearly portrayed in Shakespeare’s script and Polanski's film adaptation of Macbeth, and however their relationships differ in both. In Act 1 scene 5, Lady Macbeth describes Macbeth to be “full of the milk of human kindness” Shakespeare uses this phrase to acknowledge Macbeths virtues, however lady Macbeth cunningly uses his kindness as a fault of his own, as she shays that he is “too full” of kindness.
But to call it ‘King Lear’ is misleading to the audience who unlike Macbeth go into great detail of his character. Anyway, sorry about the rant. Its easy to criticise, but hopefully you’ll change my view. I’ll write a better King Lear then I can criticise. At the start of the play the audience see King Lear as a very powerful character as they would any King.
Although Julius Caesar is definitely dramatic, it has parts that the groundlings wont connect with, like the rhetoric speeches made by Antony and Brutus. Shakespeare wanted to appeal to the groundlings because they were a large portion of his audience. By starting in a captivating, humorous manner, Shakespeare hoped to grab the attention of the groundlings in the first scene, interest them in the play and keep their attention throughout. He also tried to inject some other funny parts throughout the play as he believed that life was a mixture of tragedy and comedy so plays should be that way too. The play opens with Flavius getting angry at the plebeians and scolding them for being out on the streets.
Hamlet’s Sanity “When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!” This quote by William Shakespeare in his play, Hamlet, and portrayed thus in Kenneth Branagh’s movie Hamlet, conveys the essence of the internal conflict in Hamlet. Although not spoken by Hamlet, this quote applies to him above other characters in the play as he, and arguably Ophelia, are the victims of this play. Although many scholars believe that Hamlet has lost his sanity, Hamlet is wholly and completely sane. Hamlet is not crazy because his actions, his intelligence, and his words ultimately prove his sanity.
The several unresolved conflicts found in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet have been an infinite source of constant debate for readers. Most prominent among them is Hamlet’s madness. Whether Hamlet’s madness is genuine or feigned is left open for various interpretations due to the play’s ambiguous nature. However, with Hamlet’s abilities to think and act rationally, to cease putting on an “antic disposition,” and to perform noble acts, the audience will find it easy to agree with Samuel Johnson’s notion that “… the hero’s ‘madness,’ a source of ‘much mirth’ to eighteenth-century audiences, was merely pretended …” It is notable to the audience that Hamlet has continued both thinking and acting rationally throughout the play, even behind his façade of insanity. For instance, before the performance of The Murder of Gonzago, Hamlet explains to Horatio, “There is a play tonight before the King.
How does William Shakespeare present Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Act 1 of the play? Macbeth, arguably one of Shakespeare’s most twisted plays, shows us how having too much ambition can have disastrous consequences especially if there is someone there to keep pushing and encouraging you do to do things you wouldn’t normally do. Macbeth we first see as a courageous and valiant man who slowly slips into a dark character with the help from Lady Macbeth, who we see as a ruthless, heartless person from when she is first introduced. The supernatural, blind ambitions (greed) and equivocation are just some of the main themes introduced to us in Act 1. At the start of the play, we were introduced to our Macbeth by the injured captain's recount about his war-time battlefield valour and heroics, therefore we were given an impression that the male protagonist was theoretically meant to be a courageous, brave and capable warrior who would risk anything to defend his country.
Shakespeare uses Macbeth’s gain in status as a backhand compliment. What Shakespeare really means by making Macbeth Thane of Cawdor is that he gained the title of traitor as well as the rise in status. From this point on, Macbeth characterizes the trait of disloyalty. This is shown when he begins to go on a murderous streak of some of his superiors and close friends. As if Macbeth’s disloyalty wasn’t open enough for all spectators of the play to see, Shakespeare used the idea foiling to exaggerate Macbeth’s disloyalty even more.