William Shakespeare is classic of the Renaissance in many ways. He increased the popularity of literature, plays, and drama. He invented, with success, a lot of new words and phrases, some still used today, and he even managed to take the role of women during the late 1500s and early to mid-1600s in England. He also took a big role in the Renaissance.
William Shakespeare lived from the year 1564 and died on April 23, 1616 because of a fever. Shakespeare lived in Stratford with his family and went to Stratford's Grammar School where the curriculum was mostly based on Latin and the school had a free tuition. He married Anne Hathaway from 1582 till his death in 1616. When William Shakespeare started theater, he went to London and wrote plays and acted. The theatre, later on, closed in 1593 because of "The Plague", Black Death, and Shakespeare stopped writing plays and started to write poems. Shakespeare helped bring the Renaissance freedom, society and recovery of appreciation of classical ruin to the English theater. Until Shakespeare time, even though the English language was widely used, it did not have the complication to
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Shakespeare was born at the end of the renaissance period and was one of the first to bring the renaissance’s focus values to the theater. His way with prose, verse, storytelling, and wit kept audiences fascinated, and engaged him to Queen Elizabeth I of England. His plays were both entertaining and humane. - i.e. against the greed and want of power that in both Richard III and MacBeth overtook the main characters. This could be contributed to Shakespeare's love of his work. He wrote because he felt that he had the freedom to write about what touched him, not just of religious views and teachings. So, it was in both entertaining and teaching his audience that Shakespeare was in that sense typical of the