King of Shadows the Relationship Between Nat and...

In the ‘King of Shadows’, Nathan and Shakespeare’s bond grew stronger and stronger every chapter as they know more about each other and their love for acting and the stage. Nathan and Shakespeare connected with each other as Nathan is always trying to do his best at acting, surprising Shakespeare with the things he could do, such as his acrobatics skills. When Nathan met Shakespeare for the first time, all he wanted to do is be closer to him. ‘William Shakespeare. It was as if he’d said, ‘Say hello to God.’ I stared down at the stage, speechless. I suppose we were ten feet or so above him, for a moment I couldn’t move – and then more than anything I wanted to be closer to him.’ This could show that even before they met, Nathan knew that†¦show more content†¦Paul’s boys. ‘Will Shakespeare came from behind me, pulled up a stool and sat down to watch Burbage paint. Gladness at seeing him sent sudden warmth into my throat and my chest; a wonderful feeling, but oddly like pain.’ This shows that Nathan feels safe around Shakespeare and leaving Shakespeare to go to St Paul’s Boys felt like going out to a dangerous world. Shakespeare and Nathan shared a same passion for acting on stage, as it felt like a different world which you can change who you are, and a world which you can ignore reality. ‘This was his world, this was what he did and who he was, and I knew exactly how he was feeling, because the same was true for me.’ Even when Shakespeare was acting in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Nathan felt as if he was the leader, the one with authority, and the King of Fairyland and of the whole world. This made Nathan, in the character of Puck, his loyal servant. In the play, Nathan and Shakespeare were Puck and Oberon, together. ‘There we were, the two of us, at the heart of this happy gathering of three thousand people, at the heart of this fantastical play: together in the centre of the stage, Will Shakespeare and me.’ Nathan knew the perfections Shakespeare wants in his plays, and Nathan, even-though he did a lot of thribbling when he was playing Boy in the last minute; Shakespeare was amazed at how he learnt his lines.Show MoreRelated Importance of Thinking in Troilus and Criseyde and Hamlet Essay3509 Words   |  15 Pagesrecent and grudging acknowledgement of the idea. Directly, afterwards, Hamlet remarks that he could be â€Å"bounded in a nutshell†except for his â€Å"bad dreams†(2.2.260-262). And, no these dreams are not â€Å"ambit ions,?as Guildenstern argues, dreams are â€Å"shadows† The bitterness inherent in this comment is as thick as pea soup. Revenge is all that remains and bookish words by their very nature may not be part of such a plan (1.5.99-102). At one point, Polonius remarks that love is the â€Å"very cause of hisRead MoreA Picatrix Miscellany52019 Words   |  209 Pagescomprehensive of the grimoires, or handbooks of magic. The attribution to the Andalusian mathematician al-Majriti (or al-Madjriti) (d. ca. 1004-7) is considered pseudo-epigraphic. The Latin translation dates to 1256 and the court of Alphonso the Wise, king of Castille, and exerted a considerable influence on Western magic thereafter. It is said that much of Ficino’s astrological magic derives from the Picatrix (see I.P.Couliano, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance, University of Chicago Press, 1987, p