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William Shakespeare Research Paper

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William Shakespeare was often thought of as the greatest English writer alive. Many people have said on the theory that he wasn't what everyone says he is. Records from time are lost or never existed in the first place, but we didn’t know everything. We often called England’s national poet or greatest writer in the English language, but did he really write his own plays (history.com)?
Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. What he did was communicate his own words in a brilliant way, by created comedy, history, tragedy and poetry that were extremely amazing. The vast majority of scholars consider Shakespeare a modern genius. Surely he was just that, no other writer’s plays have been produced so many times or …show more content…

His plays contain too much accurate detail about distant places of affairs at court to have been written by someone of as low social standing as Shakespeare, goes one argument. The plays display too wide a range of style, goes another. Shakespeare was not educated enough and Stratford-on-Avon was too backward a place to have produced a playwright of such caliber, goes a third. Supporters of alternative opinions argue William Shakespeare lacked the education, aristocratic sensibility, or familiarity with the royal court that they say is apparent in the works. Those Shakespeare scholars who have responded to such claims hold that biographical interpretations of literature are unreliable in attributing authorship. That joining of documentary evidence used to support Shakespeare's authorship, testimony by other not so famous poets and historians, also with official records is the same used for all other authorial writings of his era. No such direct evidence exists for any other author, and Shakespeare's authorship was not questioned during his lifetime or for centuries after his death (bbc …show more content…

He made a positive change that made the English language. One of the ways the grammar was changing was that inflectional endings (suffixes that indicated the word’s grammatical functions in the way that many modern languages still have) had largely disappeared. Modern English was becoming very flexible and that was the background to the Renaissance explosion of the inventive language we see when we look at the poetry of the time. Shakespeare was a leading figure in all of this. Furthermore he was very aware of the way the Early Modern English language that he grew up with was changing and it is yet another way that he was able to create the levels of meaning that made him such an wonderful writer. When students take the trouble to understand the use of the thees and thous they are able to appreciate the additional meaning rather than seeing them as a difficulty. With that said there are many interesting things on Shakespeare “last days”(

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