William Shakespeare
William
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
is the greatest of all playwrights and poets of all times. Not much is known of his life. He was probably the son
of a businessman and was born in 1564 in Stradford-upon-Avon. He probably
attended the local grammar school and got a classical education. In 1582 he
married Anne Hathaway and had 3 children. Little is known of his life before
1592, when he appeared as a playwright in London. Soon he became an actor
playing supporting roles like the ghost in "Hamlet". In 1599
Shakespeare became a part owner of the Globe Theatre in London.
Shakespeare's work
as a playwright is subdivided into 3 periods. Written in the first period,
Shakespeare's plays are mostly history plays like "Henry VI", and
comedies with strong elements of farce. His masterpiece of this period is
"Romeo and Juliet". In the second period Shakespeare wrote a number
of comedies where he moved away from farce towards romance. In the third
period, after 1600, appeared his major tragedies - "Hamlet",
"Othello". They presented a clear opposition of order to chaos, good
to evil. Shakespeare was a great poet and would be well known for his poetry
alone. His major achievement as a poet is his sonnets, first published in 1609.
A sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines, with a moral at the end. The sonnets
are addressed to some "W.H.", and to mysterious "Dark Lady of
Sonnets". The sonnets deal with the great themes of love, friendship,
death, change and immortality. Shakespeare looks at his own poetry as a means
of immortality. Shakespeare's sonnets are excellent. They are full of harmony
and music; they praise love, friendship and beauty, though there is no
sentimentality in them. Shakespeare's poetry is at the summit of human
achievement. Many centuries have passed since his death in 1616, but
Shakespeare is still considered to be the greatest of all playwrights and
poets. The prideses of Shakespeare. The most brilliant period of English
literature was in the second half of the 16'th and begining of 17'th
centure.Sometimes it's called "Elizabethen age" after quen Elizabeth
5. England had become a geat world power.
It had established wide commercial contact with countries And rich trading
company had been organaized. The english people were now a great nation and the
english language inriched was now not unlike the language of Chaucer. Many
famous poetical and prose works appeared. Among those who inriched the literary
haritage of this period ere sir Philip Sydney, Adnond Spenser and Christother
Marlowe. There were fine works of poetry and prose in the Elizabethen age but
the greatest hight's of literature of this period were riached in drama. 2.
Life of Shakespeare. The great poet and dramatist William Shakespeare is often
called by his people "Our National Bard", "The Immortal. Poet of
nature" and "The Great Unknown". More than two hundred
contemporary references to Shakespeare have been located amoung church records,
legal records, documents in the Public Record Office, and miscellaneous
repositories. When these owe assembled, we have at least the sceleton out line
of his life, begining with his baptist on April 26, 1564, in Trinity Churche,
Stratford-on-Avon, and ending with his burial there on April 25, 1616.
Shakespeare native place was Sratford-on-Avon, a little town in Warwickshive,
which is generally described as beign in the middle of England. Shakespeare's
father, John, was a prosperious glove maker of Stratford who, after holding
minor municipal offices, was elected high bailiff of Stratford. Shakespeare's
mother Mary Arden, came from an affluent family of landowners. Shakespeare
probably recieved his early education at the exellent Stratford Grammar School,
supervised by an Oxford graduate, where he would have learned Latin smattering
of Greek. In 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who lived in a neighboring
hamlet. The first child born to Ann and William was their daughter Susanna. In
about two years Ann bore him twins a boy and a girl, Hamlet and Jidith. Then
life in Stratford became intolerable for William Shakespeare and he dicided to
go to London and began a theatrical career. Shakespeare major activity lay in
the field of drama. He became a full shaveholder in his acting company, he was
partowner of "the Globe" theatre and later of "the
Blackfriars" theatre, and in 1597 he purchased property in Strarford.
Including new place, one of the largest houses in the town. He probably refired
there about 1610, travelling of London when necessary to take cave of his
theatrical business. In all, 154 sonnets seguence. The sonnets were probably
written in the 1590 but were first published in 1609. 3. Shakespeare's works.
Shakespeare's literary work is usually divided into three periods. The first
period of his creative work falls between 1590 and 1600. Shakespeare's comedies
belong to the first period of his creativ work. They all are written in his
playfull manner and and in the brilliant poetry that conveys the spectator to
Italy. Some of the first plays of the first period are: "Richard 3"
(1592), "The comedy of errors" (1592), "Romeo and Juliet"
(1594), "Julius Caesar" (1599), "As you like it" (1599),
1600 - "Twelth night". Shakespe-are's poems are also attributed to
the first period, "Venus and Adonis" and "Lucrece", and 154
sonnets. "Venus and Adonis" was the first of Shakespeare's works that
came off the press. The second period of Shakespeare's creative work during
from 1600 to 1608. His famous tragedies appeared at this time. In the plays of
this period the dramatist reaches his full maturity. He presents great humans
problems. His tragedies and historical plays made Shakespeare the greatest
humanist of the English Renaissanse. Some plays of the second period: 1601 -
"Hamlet", 1604 - "Othello". Shakespeare's plays of the
third period are called the "Romantic dramas". There is no tragic
tension in these plays. This period lasted from 1609 till 1612. 1609 -
"Cymbeline", 1610 - "The Winters Tale", 1612 - "Henry
8".
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