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William Shakespeare is generally considered the greatest playwright of all time. He was born in April 23, 1564. He grew up in Stratford with his family, and bought property there, but he worked at the center of English theater in London. William Shakespeare was married to Anne Hathaway and had three kids. He became wealthy and famous as an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company. He died in April 23, 1516. His style of writing and his inventions made fans imagine and reimagine him according to their own tastes. William Shakespeare's early plays were written in the conventional style, with complex metaphors and rhetorical phrases that did not always lined up with the story's plot or characters. However, Shakespeare was …show more content…

Shakespeare's first plays were mostly histories except Romeo and Juliet written in the early 1590s. Richard II, Henry VI (parts 1, 2 and 3) and Henry V were the plays that dramatize the damages of weak or corrupt rulers. These plays were Shakespeare's way of describing the origins of the Tudor Dynasty and they were interpreted by drama historians. Shakespeare also wrote numerous comedies during his early period. Some of them are Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and so on. Other plays include The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew probably written before …show more content…

It was written in 1604 or earlier. Othello is set in 16th-century Venice and Cyprus. Othello, the Moor, is a noble black general in the Venetian army. He has secretly married a beautiful white woman called Desdemona. Othello’s pennant, Iago, gains secret jealousy and anger towards the Moor because of certain reasons. Committed on revenge, Iago plots a deceitful plan to create suspicions in Othello’s mind that Desdemona has been cheating on him. According to Iago’s plan, Othello strangles Desdemona. Immediately later, her innocence is exposed, and Iago’s deceitfulness revealed. Othello feels guilty very guilty kills himself. Iago is taken into custody by the Venetian authorities. This story is so amazing. It does not have a happy conclusion but it shows how life is surrounded by reality even though we want to stay in our fantasies and dream all the time. Desdemona’s character is so pure and Iago’s character is purely evil. Othello is trapped in the center, became very confused, and did what Iago wanted from

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He was 52 years of age. He died within a month of signing his will. In the document he described himself in "perfect health". Half a centry later John Ward, the vicar of Stratford, wrote that Shakespeare and others had a merry meeting and, seemed he drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted. He was survived by his wife and two

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It was during this time that he wrote Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Julius Caesar. Since he was now a wealthy man, William decided to buy a second home in Stratford. In 1603, when King James took the throne, he issue a royal license and gathered Shakespeare and other players to make them Kings men. During King James' reign was when William Shakespeare wrote many of his more famous plays. These were King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.

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Peyton Curtner 3rd/4th Hour 4/25/17 William Shakespeare Shakespeare did write his own sonnets and plays because for one of those plays was named after him and it was about his life. He did write all his plays indeed. Shakespeare was a genius, he loved and believed that he was capable to be a great playwright, he loved theater and he wanted to write plays and act in them as well, his sonnets are mostly about the three quatrains and the rhythms of a poem. The reasons why he started writing plays was because he had potential to be a good playwright. He loved the theater and he thought if he could make them he can act in them as well.

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William Shakespeare lived from 1564, to 1616. He wrote what some believe to be over a hundred plays. He worked with two leaders in his life time, Lord Chamberlin and King James. Passing in 1616, Shakespeare worked much longer with Lord Chamberlin, then with King James, even though King James and William Shakespeare were very close. Shakespeare was a translator of The King James Bible, his name is embedded in two separated parts of the text, he was known for being close and commonly assisting King James, also King James volunteered his men “The Kings Men” for Shakespeare’s plays at the Globe Theatre.

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The theme of jealousy renders prominently into Iago’s character at first, being the fuel to his acts of cruelty. The way Iago feels he could revenge himself is by demoralizing Othello, Iago goes about this by lying to Othello, telling him that Desdemona (Othello’s wife) is having an affair with another man (Cassio). In order to get Othello to believe his cruel lie, Iago had to use a number of things. He first uses

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On April 23, 1616 William Shakespeare died of an unknown cause. Some think that he died from syphilis, typhoid, influenza, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, etc. However, another interesting theory is that someone murdered him. William Shakespeare’s death will forever remain a mystery, but there are many conclusions and evidence to back it up.

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In Palladis Tamia, paragraph 63, written by Francis Meres, in 1598, Shakespeare is referred to as one of the best poets of his time.27 Francis Meres also credits Shakespeare with writing many plays including Gentlemen of Verona, Errors, Love Labors Lost, Love Labors Won, Midsummers Night Dreame, Merchant of Venice, Richard the 2, Richard the 3, Henry the 4, King Iohn, Titus Andronicus, and Romeo and Juliet.27 Many of Shakespeare’s works, when originally published, were said on the covers to have been written by William Shakespeare, including Love’s Labor’s Lost, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Part 2, Much Ado about Nothing, Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, King Lear, Pericles, and Troilus and

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As he continued to write, he began forming his own style of play using unrhymed iambic pentameter with occasional prose or poetry in order to give himself a more dynamic flow of words. Most of Shakespeare’s early plays were historical, such as Richard II, but during this time he also wrote some of his most famous comedies and tragedies. Romeo and Juliet, arguably Shakespeare’s most famous play, was written fairly early in his career, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as Merchant of Venice were written at this time. After Shakespeare’s historical plays, he wrote mostly comedies until around 1600. 1600 saw a shift in genre from mainly comedies to a majority of tragedies and tragicomedies, such as Hamlet, Macbeth, and

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William Shakespeare, from 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1614 was an English story writer, poet, play writer, and actor, largely considered as the biggest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-famous writer. He is also called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His still existing works, including his creations, consist of approximately 38 dramas, 154 sonnets, two large story telling poems, and a few other verses. His plays has been translated into each real living language and are performed more frequently than those of some other writer. Shakespearean Tragedy is the arrangement of show composed by William Shakespeare which has a respectable hero, i.e., any fundamental character in any story or dramatization that is defective

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