William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet, and generously considered as the greatest writer in the English language. However two things influenced Shakespeare to his outstanding work, his village Stratford , and the city of London, the center of the world's political activity. In one he learnt to know the natural man in his natural environment and in the other, the social man in the most unnatural of surroundings. (William J. Long, 2004) these things were some factors which influenced many works of Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickfhire in 1564 the date of birth is not known exactly but it was before the 23rd April, his baptism was recorded on the 26th April. His father worked as a butcher, …show more content…
Four centuries after he wrote them, the works of William Shakespeare continue to entertain and intrigue audiences around the world. Shakespeare’s genius permanently shaped the English language, while his knowledge of the human mind and heart speaks to us across the years. In the words of his friend and rival playwright Ben Jonson, “He was not of an age, but for all time.” He had already spent some years in London, to which he came from his native town of Stratford - on – Avon ; and during the intervals of acting he wrote for his own company, reshaping the plays in its repertory. None of his own manuscripts of his works survive, so we have only those of his play and poems that were printed. The plays fall loosely into four categories: comedy, history, tragedy and poetry. Shakespeare was clearly aware of basic theories about what a comedy or tragedy ought to be like, but he doesn’t seem to have spent much time worrying about whether he was conforming to such theories. Of the thirty – six plays he has left, no two are alike or produce in us the same