William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English poet , dramatist , and actor William Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest dramatist of all time . He wrote diverse plays ranging from historical romances , tragedies to light , and fantastic comedies In his early years , Shakespeare did not confine himself to the theatre and composed some mythological erotic poetry , such as Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece . By 1598 , Shakespeare had written some of his most famous works , Romeo and Juliet , The Comedy of Errors , A Midsummer 's Night 's Dream , The Merchant of Venice , Two Gentleman of

Verona , and Love 's Labour Lost , as well as his historical plays Richard II , Richard III , Henry IV , and Kind John . Around the turn of the century Shakespeare wrote his romantic comedies As You Like It , Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing , as well as Henry V . During the next ten years , he wrote his great tragedies , Hamlet , Macbeth , Othello , King Lear , and Anthony and Cleopatra (Bloom , 1999a ,

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Shakespeare 's romantic dramas are different from one another , and are essentially comedies , or more accurately may be called tragic comedies Though all of them have visionary elements , is as extreme as Midsummer Night 's Dream or Macbeth in relying upon supernatural Pericles , the earliest of these plays essentially is an pageant while Cymberline is an extravagant self parody in which Shakespeare recalls earlier triumphs largely to mock them . When the four romantic plays of Shakespeare , Pericles , Cymberline , The Tempest and The Winter 's Tales are considered as comedies , or tragic comedies , there common features and themes tend to vanish . Shakespeare , a naturally comic genius , even in Hamlet and Anthony and Cleopatra , is farthest from comedy in Othello and Macbeth . King Lear , most tragic of tragedies , it is wildly monstrous (Bloom , 2000 ,

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Shakespeare 's sonnet 's , written in iambic pentameter (five metrical feet to a line , each foot having one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable ) were published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe . Out of the young nobleman "a fair youth . Sonnet 127-152 focus on a woman presumably the poet 's mistress "a dark lady . Sonnet 153 and 154 are filled with mythological references . Shakespeare 's sonnet 's do not tell stories as much as they incarnate the tensions between conflicting urges within the self (Bloom , 1999b ,

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The four most important and famous tragedies written by Shakespeare are King Lear , Othello , Hamlet and Macbeth . The plot revolves around an emotionally scarred man trying to avenge the murder of his father , the king . Shakespeare introduces the character of a ghost , Hamlet 's father who reveals to Hamlet his murderer 's identity , who was to utter consternation of Hamlet was his paternal uncle Claudius .1 Hamlet is one of Shakespeare 's famous plays where Shakespeare weaves intricate characters and makes the reader engrossed in the characters and to form their own imagination about the characters . The depiction of Hemlet 's crusading character is brilliantly portrayed by Shakespeare2 . In Othello , the main character Othello...