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  2. Apostrophe (figure of speech) - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act 3, scene 1 "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die." Romeo and Juliet, act 5, scene 3, 169–170. "To what green altar, O mysterious priest, / Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, / And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?" John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

  3. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Benvolio is Romeo's cousin and best friend. Abram and Balthasar are servants of the Montague household. Others. Friar Laurence is a Franciscan friar and Romeo's confidant. Friar John is sent to deliver Friar Laurence's letter to Romeo. An Apothecary who reluctantly sells Romeo poison. A Chorus reads a prologue to each of the first two acts.

  4. Friar Laurence - Wikipedia

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    Friar Laurence is a friar who plays the part of a wise adviser to Romeo and Juliet, along with aiding in major plot developments.. Alone, he foreshadows the later, tragic events of the play with his soliloquy about plants and their similarities to humans. [1]

  5. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet - Wikipedia

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    In the famous speech of Act II, Scene II [1] of the play, the line is said by Juliet in reference to Romeo's house: Montague. The line implies that his name (and thus his family's feud with Juliet's family) means nothing and they should be together. Juliet: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name;

  6. Henry VI, Part 3 - Wikipedia

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    After the conclusion of Act 5, Scene 7 from 3 Henry VI, the film then moves on to the opening soliloquy from Act 1, Scene 1 of Richard III. However, after twenty-three lines, it then moves back to 3 Henry VI, quoting from Richard's soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 2; Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb, And for I should not deal in her soft laws,

  7. William Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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    However, stylistic analysis considers these attributions unlikely. Sir Thomas More – A collaborative work by several playwrights, including Shakespeare. There is a "growing scholarly consensus" [30] that Shakespeare was called in to re-write a contentious scene in the play and that "Hand D" in the surviving manuscript is that of Shakespeare ...

  8. Shakespeare's writing style - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] No single play marks a change from the traditional to the freer style. Shakespeare combined the two throughout his career, with Romeo and Juliet perhaps the best example of the mixing of the styles. [6] By the time of Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, and A Midsummer Night's Dream in the mid-1590s, Shakespeare had begun to write a more ...

  9. Henry V (play) - Wikipedia

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    Act III, Scene iv. Act V opens some years later, when the war comes to a brief interval of peace, as the English and French negotiate the Treaty of Troyes, and Henry tries to woo the French princess, Katharine. Neither Henry nor Katharine speaks the other's language well, but the humour of their mistakes actually helps Henry achieve his aim.