Alphabets and Birthdays - Gertrude Stein

Advantages: A Detailed, Fascinating & Well-Researched Biography
Disadvantages: Tale of a Short & Tragic Life

...encircled by a buzzing swarm of beaux, and the country club was her sugary hive. Until a summer evening in 1918, that is, when in walked F. Scott Fitzgerald. *** The Fitzgerald's were married in 1919, the year after the Great War ended. Milford notes that at the end of his life, when Scott spoke of his tragedy, he 'made a fetish of their love and called it the mating of the age. She was the golden beauty of the South and he was the great success of the North.' This romantic notion was in fact largely true. Scott's first novel, This Side of Paradise, had been a runaway bestseller, and by 1920 the Fitzgerald's had become the toast of New York City, at the centre of a wild group of artists, writers, and drinkers. They were acquainted with celebrities including Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, and Edna St. Vincent Millay... Read review

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Advantages: Lots to write about
Disadvantages: Very long

...Hi everyone, its good to be back!! Been away a while studying, but im back for a bit to get your valued opinion on my last peice of English Literature corsework, i struggle with Shakespeare and I would greatly appretiate your honest opinion, which i know you will do otherwise you would not be a ciaoer!!!! thanks. #################################### How would a modern day audience respond to the presentation of women in Hamlet? William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1603. Hamlet is a play of its time in the presentation of female characters. There are only two women in Hamlet. Gertrude, Hamlets mother, and Ophelia, Hamlets lover, the daughter of Polonius. Hamlet was written in the Elizabethan period, in this time many women were confined to the domestic sphere, they were often unhappy, oppressed, and commonly abused by tyrannical... Read review

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Advantages: Witty, sophisticate dialogue
Disadvantages: Characters a little outdated

...I have been involved in amateur dramatics for some time now and have performed in numerous plays. By far my favourite genre is comedy and none better than the plays of Oscar Wilde. Wilde’s humour is funny in a gentle witty manner and forms a sardonic comment on society. An Ideal Husband is, as is perhaps to be expected, a play about love and marriage. It focuses on the marriage of Sir Robert Chiltern (my part and hence my user name) and his wife, Gertrude. Chiltern’s career and reputation is well established in politics as a leading member of parliament. However in his early day, Chiltern committed a misdemenour which now returns to haunt him. He is threatened with blackmail and turns to his friend Lord Goring for advice. Lord Goring is a resolute bachelor and womanizer. He is charming, aristocratic, handsome and a smooth talker... Read review

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