Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day Did You Know? ... A sonnet is in verse form and has fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. Shakespeare's sonnets follow the pattern "abab cdcd efef gg", and Petrarch's sonnets follow the pattern "abba abba cdecde." All the lines in iambic pentameter have five feet, consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. For a more detailed look at iambic pentameter with examples, please click here The acclaimed late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman received three Tony Award nominations for his work in the theatre and in 2009 he starred as Iago in Peter Sellars' groundbreaking production of Othello, which featured a diverse cast, including the Latino actor John Ortiz as Othello Ale (beer made with a top fermenting yeast) was the drink of choice in Shakespeare's day. Twenty-four of Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to a woman. Known to the Elizabethans as ague, Malaria was a common malady spread by the mosquitoes in the marshy Thames.
interesting News flash!! Most young girls across America say Marilyn Monroe is their all-time hero. Elegant Audrey Hepburn comes in a distant second in the Screen Goddess Sweepstakes. Marilyn Monroe's horrendous beginning PARALYZED her right up to the end of her life. She dreamed of a fame that would bring her the love of millions. Gossip columnist Walter Winchell once wrote: "Hollywood is a place where they put you under contract instead of under observation." Marilyn freely admitted she did the "Monica Lewinsky" for years with agents, producers, studio moguls and a cast of thousands, before landing a coveted studio contract. She got her studio contract AND was placed under observation many times, in many psychiatric clinics. As a fully grown sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe inflicted the tyranny of her mental illness on co-stars and directors. The movies made her a celluloid idol, but left many battlefield casualties. Poor Marilyn. Sadly, it seems Marilyn's magic was only on the screen.
8 Scandalous Women, 1778-1939: in Oil, on Film, & Installation Art "Steichen was already a famous painter and photographer on both sides of the Atlantic (possibly the most famous photographer), when, in early 1923, he was offered possibly one of the most prestigious and certainly the most lucrative position in photography’s commercial domain — that of chief photographer for Condé Nast’s influential and highly-regarded magazines, Vogue and Vanity Fair. Though it meant a break with the high-minded art-for-art’s-sake ethos espoused by his mentor Alfred Stieglitz (a break viewed as treachery by Stieglitz and his friends), he leapt at the chance, having come to the conclusion that photography’s natural — and therefore true — function was utilitarian: a thoroughly modern means of human communication. "The fashion plates Steichen produced make for a full archive of modernist fashion of the inter-war years.