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There are many things to say about the form of sonnets and then shakespearean sonnets are full of obvious or hidden techniques you can focus on: tone, rhyme, language, alliteration, consonance, symbols, metaphors and similes, themes etc.
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Look at drive-in movie theaters and the shakespearean stage.
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Thoughts on "shakespearean insults time for some more"
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His SC home town hit hard from all sides from the meltdown and financial woesand the kinder and gentler Shalom over the crustyNew Yorker Greenspinner displayed a shakespearean flare while discussing his boyhood home which was goinginto foreclosure.
Monetary and Fiscal Failure, Fraud, and Fear of What's Next 2009
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No, it has to be shakespearean and more serious, like the tones of the series Rome or Gladiator.
J. Michael Straczynski Happy With Kenneth Branagh for Thor « FirstShowing.net 2008
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MadonnaKonfesses: there is something raw and theatrical, something shakespearean about Krumping.
March 2006 2006
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MadonnaKonfesses: there is something raw and theatrical, something shakespearean about Krumping.
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Hmm and there I was thinking he meant comedy in the shakespearean sense.ie everyone ends up married at the end rather than dead like the tragedies.
Christopher Booker: The Seven Basic Plots Michael Allen 2005
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Anthony Head as the bumbling art dealer seemed as flustered and unfocused as the rest of the cast making what should have been an entertaining 90 minutes into a rather tedious theatrical event that when it ended, seemed like it had been almost shakespearean in length.
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It was akin to a shakespearean play, which would have to be restaged and performed anew for each generation.
chained_bear commented on the word shakespearean
Encarta Shakespeare Quiz.
April 23, 2008