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  2. Biblical allusions in Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Although Naseeb Shaheen's important study calls attention to three references to the Rheims translation of the New Testament, it overlooks a number of other allusions or correspondences. For example, Matthew 3.2 is translated in the Tyndale, Geneva, Great and Bishops’ translations as “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” but in ...

  3. Out, Out— - Wikipedia

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    The title of the poem is an allusion to William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth ("Out, out, brief candle ..." in the "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy). [4] Macbeth is shocked to hear of his wife's death and comments on the brevity of life; it refers to how unpredictable and fragile life is. [citation needed]

  4. Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth was a favourite of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who saw the play on 5 November 1664 ("admirably acted"), 28 December 1666 ("most excellently acted"), ten days later on 7 January 1667 ("though I saw it lately, yet [it] appears a most excellent play in all respects"), on 19 April 1667 ("one of the best plays for a stage ...

  5. Cultural references to Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Twenty-first-century cinema has re-interpreted Macbeth, relocating "Scotland" elsewhere: Maqbool to Mumbai, Scotland, PA to Pennsylvania, Geoffrey Wright's Macbeth to Melbourne, and Allison L. LiCalsi's 2001 Macbeth: The Comedy to a location only differentiated from the reality of New Jersey, where it was filmed, through signifiers such as tartan, Scottish flags and bagpipes. [28]

  6. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    Example: "From up here on ... Motifs may also be used to establish mood (as the blood motif in Shakespeare's Macbeth), ... Allusion. Allusion is a reference ...

  7. The Well Wrought Urn - Wikipedia

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    The Well Wrought Urn is divided into eleven chapters, ten of which attempt close readings of celebrated English poems from verses in Shakespeare's Macbeth to Yeats's "Among School Children." The eleventh, famous chapter, entitled "The Heresy of Paraphrase," is a polemic against the use of paraphrase in describing and criticizing a poem.

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  9. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's Macbeth – A Tragedy in Steel: Rebellion: Macbeth: William Shakespeare [22] Smallcreeps's Day: Mike Rutherford: Smallcreep's Day: Peter Currell Brown [23] The Snow Goose: Camel: The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk: Paul Gallico [24] The Songs of Distant Earth: Mike Oldfield: The Songs of Distant Earth: Arthur C. Clarke [25] Tales ...