Shakespeare

• playwright


  Dramatiker, Bühnenautor
• manuscript

  handgeschriebenes Buch / Druckvorlage
• equivalent


  entsprechend, gleichwertig
• to deduce sth

  etw schlussfolgern
• swiftness


  Schnelligkeit
• whereabouts


  Aufenthaltsort, Verbleib
• textual portrait


  textbasiertes Bild / Porträt
• Predetermined fate


  The belief that a person's fate or course is laid out for them before birth and they cannot alter it.
• (The old) dogma


  A principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true
• upheaval


  A violent disturbance
• Spectators


  People who watch an event or performance
• Gesture


  Motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling
• Playhouses


  Common term for theatres during the English Renaissance.
• Transcript

  A written or printed version of material originally presented in another medium
• Antiquated

  Old-fashioned or outdated
• Props


  Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play.
• To persuade sb.


  To make someone do or believe something by giving them a good reason to do it or by talking to that person and making them believe it
• Adaptations


  A film, television drama, or stage play that has been adapted from a written work
• Performance poetry


  Poetry meant to be heard, not read, by the audience.
• profound


  tiefgreifend
• power hierarchy


  Machthierarchie
• deny


  leugnen, abstreiten, bestreiten
• empower


  ermächtigen, ermutigen, unterstützen, befähigen
• bombast


  (leerer) Wortschwall, überschwängliche Rede, schwülstiger Stil
• possession

  Besitz
• eternal


  ewig, immer während
• nihilistic perspective


  nihilistische Perspektive
• temperate


  zurückhaltend
• (to) fret

  sich ärgern
• endure


  ertragen, aushalten
• tale

  Geschichte, Erzählung, Sage
• suitor


  Freier, Verehrer
• disdainful


  herablassend, verächtlich
• exposition


  Exposition, Einleitung
• betrayal

  Verrat, Betrug
• Drives the plot

  Treibt die Handlung voran
• nihilistic


  nihilistisch