Classic to Modern English Literature

From his 154 sonnets, William Shakespeare wrote, "As an unperfect actor on the stage" also known as "Sonnet 23". The Renaissance poetry was published in 1609 by an English publisher, Thomas Thrope. While coursing the poem, the narrator compares himself to an imperfect actor on a stage who forgets his lines. He laments his inability to adequately express his love for the beloved through poetry. He feels that like an actor, he struggles to perform convincingly. Contextually, the poem includes, "love, time, beauty, and the passage of life." American literary critic, Helen Hennessy Vendler writes that in sonnet 23, "the (inevitable) distance between composing author and fictive speaker narrows to the vanishing point."  Shakespeare 's sonnetic poem "As an unperfect actor on the stage" contains fourteen lines with Iambic Pentameter. It implies ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme-scheme. The poem has three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. This

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, later known as "Pre-Raphaelite", is a group of painters, poets and literary critics. The group was founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner. It was shaped on the Nazarene Movement with seven members.  They believe in Classical poses. The group objects to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds (was an English painter, promoted "grand style" in painting. He was the pioneer and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts.).  The group was affiliated with John Ruskin (He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. He was a multi-talented man like the great philosopher, Aristotle ).  It began with John Millais's parents' house on Gower Street, London in 1848. At their first meet up, the great and famous painters John Everett

William Shakespeare, the greatest English playwright, wrote "The Tragedy of Hamlet" in the early 17th century. This five-act tragedy, commonly known as "Hamlet," was first performed around 1600. It centers on a young Danish prince who seeks to avenge his father's death. The ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him, revealing that he was murdered by Hamlet's uncle, Claudius. Claudius then married Hamlet's mother and claimed the throne. Written between 1599 and 1601, "Hamlet" was published in a quarto edition in 1603 and is widely regarded as one of the most influential literary works ever written. Although "Hamlet" is a fictional story, it was inspired by real oral accounts of Danish history. The story of Amleth, the last King of Jutland, can be found in the writings of Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus. Prince Hamlet's character was derived from several sources, notably Books III and IV of Saxo Grammaticus’s 12th-century "

"All My Sons" is a three-act play written by Arthur Miller in 1946. It premiered on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, and closed on November 8, 1947, after 328 performances. Directed by Elia Kazan, to whom it is dedicated, and produced by Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman, the play won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. The original cast included Ed Begley, Beth Merrill, Arthur Kennedy, and Karl Malden, and the production won both the Tony Award for Best Author and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. The play was adapted for films in 1948 and 1987. "All My Sons" is set in the Keller's yard in late August 1946. Miller wrote it after his first play, "The Man Who Had All the Luck," failed on Broadway, lasting only four performances. The play is based on a true story that Miller's then-mother-in-law found in an Ohio newspaper, describing how the Wright Aeronautical Corporation had conspired with army