A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone ().A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing …

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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare c. 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta.One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play which they are to perform before the …

Oct 30, 2017 · But even if I were to ask, even if I were to violate decorum to that extent, Rita would not allow it. She would be too afraid. The Marthas are not supposed to fraternize with us. Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be ...

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The Masque of Blackness was an early Jacobean era masque, first performed at the Stuart Court in the Banqueting Hall of Whitehall Palace on Twelfth Night, 6 January 1605.It was written by Ben Jonson at the request of Anne of Denmark, the queen consort of King James I, who wished the masquers to be disguised as Africans.Anne was one of the performers in the masque along …

Plot: It refers to the order of the events that occur in the play. Characters: The characters form a crucial part of the story and are interwoven with the plot of the play. Dialogue: It refers to the conversation or interactions between the characters in the play. Setting: It refers to the time and place where a story is set. It is one of the ...

In 1766, a Dutch adventurer, William Bolts, proposed starting a newspaper for the English audience in Calcutta.He was deported by the East India Company, before his plans could come to fruition.. In January 1780, James Augustus Hicky published Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first newspaper in India.The size of that four-page newspaper was 12"x8". Hicky accused the …