Act 1, scene 1: As a prologue to the play, the chorus enters and introduces Doctor Faustus and his history to the audience. During Marlowe and Shakespeare's time, a chorus was frequently used in a play to act as narrator and interpreter. They expl...
Everyman HERE BEGINETH A TREATISE HOW THE HIGH FATHER OH HEAVEN SENDETH DEATH TO SUMMON EVERY CREATURE TO COME AND GIVE ACCOUNT OF THEIR LIVES IN THIS WORLD AND IS IN MANNER OF A MORAL PLAY. Messenger: I pray you all give your audience, And here this matter with reverence, By figure a mora...
HAMLET PLOT Act 1, Scene 1 The play opens in Denmark as midnight strikes at Elsinore Castle. Horatio, a scholar, and Marcellus, a sentinel, join Barnardo's nighttime watch. From their guard-post, Marcellus and Barnardo have twice witnessed a mysterious phantom
ROMANTICISM Romantic poetry was part of the Romantic movement of European literature during the 18th-19th centuries. Some have attributed the Romantic era of poetry as a reaction against the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Romantic...
Sailing to Byzantium Summary The speaker, referring to the country that he has left, says that it is "no country for old men": it is full of youth and life, with the young lying in one another's arms, birds singing in the trees, and fish swimming in the waters. There, "all summer lon...
The Lamb Poem lyrics of The Lamb by William Blake. Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life, and bid thee feed, By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejo...
