Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Who is William Shakespeare ?

Of course many people knows about William Shakespeare. He is a legend ! William Shakespeare was baptised on the 26th of April and died on 23rd of April 1616. He was and English poet and a playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's most pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works consists 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's plays are divided into three categories which are tragedies, histories and comedies.

Tragedies : Antony and Cleopatra , Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth,
Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus

Histories : Henry IV Part I , Henry IV Part II, Henry V, Henry V Part I, Henry V Part II,
Henry V Part III, Henry VIII, King John, Richard II, Richard III

Comedies : All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Cymbeline,
Love's Labours Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merry Wives of Windsor,
The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing,
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Troilus and
Cressida, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Winter's Tale

* Among the most famous and critically acclaimed of Shakespeare's plays are Romeo and Juliet, King lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice and Richard III

Shakespeare is an English man. He was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. At the age of 18, he was desired to marry a young girl named Anne who bore him three children ; Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith.

Nowadays, many of his poems and his plays have been translated to many languages. And his several of his poems are used for studies like English language and History. William Shakespeare is a very wonderful poet. Till now, people knows him and respect and admire his work.
Two thumbs up for you Shakespeare ! :D

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