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How does Shakespeare depict theatre and the acting craft across his works?

Hamlet is the most prominent example of direct commentary on theatre in Shakespeare’s time. The play within the play is used to convict King Claudius of the murder of his brother. ‘The play’s the thing wh...

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'In Hamlet, Hamlet's madness spirals out of his control and threatens to compromise both the play and the audience.' Discuss how Shakespeare presents Hamlet's madness and the impact on the play's structure, and the audience.

The play's key turning point seems to be the metaplay, or play within play taking part at the height of Hamlet's deception. His madness structurally transcends the plot he's within - it can no longer be c...

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How do I structure an English Literarture Essay?

Every exam board in A-Levels considers it essential to have an understanding of the text at hand, but that is often not enough to reach the highest marks. What helped me get full marks on my English Liter...

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Explore how Ted Hughes presents the natural world in 'The Thought-Fox'.

Ted Hughes is a poet whose work is very often concerned with the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it. This focus is seen from the very start of his career, with his 1957 anthology The Haw...

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Explore the presentation of nature in Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native"

The first things that needs to be done if we are to read The Return of the Native for unconscious matter is to divorce ourselves from the anthropocentrism implicit in many existing readings of th...

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