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  • Summary of the taming of the shrew.

    Character analysis. Katherina is put across as a “shrew”—a loud, bad-tempered woman by her own behavior and by the comments of other characters.Kate is the title character (the “Shrew”) of the play. The eldest and unmarried daughter of Baptista Minola, no man wants anything to do with her because she’s got a hot temper, slaps…

  • Practise question (taming of the shrew)

    This is not a fair comparison as petruchios insulting behaviour is not similar to Katharina, where petruchio is very rude and insulting and is not respectful for example ‘ you peasant swain! You whoreson malthorse drudge! Did I not bid thee meet me in the park and bring along these rascal knaves with thee?’  These…

  • Christopher sly

    Christopher sly is a drunken beggar, and also a tinker. He collapses outside  a  pub that he has been ejected From. He awakens and finds himself transformed into a lord and has been madly supposing himself as a drunken beggar for the past fifteen years. He wishes to go to bed immediately with his new…

  • elizabethan england

    Elizabethan England – Crime & PunishmentElizabethan England and Elizabethan Crime and Punishment – not a happy subject. Violent times. Crimes were met with violent, cruel punishments. Many punishments and executions were witnessed by many hundreds of people. Facts about the different Crime and Punishment of the Nobility, Upper Classes and Lower Classes. Elizabethan England –…

  • This is Your Online Domain

      Hello and welcome to your personal online journal. This platform has been created to enhance and enrich your learning at the London Nautical School. Its purpose is to provide you with an audience for your work (or work-in-progress) and you have the choice (by altering the ‘visibility’ of your posts) of whether your work…

  • poetry belfast confetti

    the peom belfast confetti is about a bombing which took place in belfast and explains all the troubles the people of belfast experianced.the title is more than just a title it has a meaning to it which explains the meaning of the poetry, for example belfast ‘CONFETTI’ which expresses the meaning of CONFETTI such as…

  • Creative Writing – Film Stimulus

    As I stepped into the rocket i could feel tension building up inside me making me more nervous, the feeling was like no other and the vibration from the floor was causing shivers to run threw my body. as I held onto the railings circling the rocket I could feel how slippery and sweaty it…

  • attack of the block (2011) film

    attack the block is a film based in south london. which is about a gang which defend their block from an alien invasion. this relates to my theme which is youth culture (gangs) which shows how most teenage gangs look out for eachother and normally always have eachothers back.they also show that no one can…

  • love my enemy (kate maclachlan)

    the book i have read is love my enemy by kate maclachlan. the book is about two star crossed lovers and one was a protestant and the other is a catholic. they fall victim to the jelousies and hatred around them.when they clash connor is beaten up and and zee pays for betrail in a…

  • The Right Word

    Click on this link to download a file providing detail about the Social and Historical context of your poem: The Right Word

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