Author: Shakes Peare
Published: 1611
Published: 1611
Categorie(s): Fiction, Drama, Romance
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About Shakespeare:
William Shakespeare (baptized 26
April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely
regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's
pre-eminent dramatist.
He is often called England's national poet and the
"Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard").
His surviving works consist
of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.
His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are
performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born
and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway,
who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.
Between 1585
and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the
King's Men.
He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died
three years later.
Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there
has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality,
religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by
others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His
early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of
sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century.
Next, he wrote
mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth,
considered some of the finest examples in the English language.
In his last
phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with
other playwrights.
Many of his plays were published in editions of varying
quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623 two of his former
theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his
dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognized as
Shakespeare's.
Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day,
but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth
century.
The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the
Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard
Shaw called it "bardolatry".
In the twentieth century, his work was
repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance.
His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and
reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.
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