William Shakespeare the Great Bard of Stratford William Shakespeare The Complete Works By Linda Alchin The Life, Times, Works and Biography of William Shakespeare Quotes - Plays - Sonnets - Pictures - Timeline- Facts - Biography - Poems - Bubonic Plague - Globe Biography - Dictionary - Elizabethan Theater - Identity Problem - Biography - Black Death - Stratford. The World of William Shakespeare and details of his biography have fascinated people for centuries. The questions and mysteries which
For being one of the most famous and influential there is very little known about Shakespeare’s personal life. All that is really known about his personal life is that he was born to a middle class family in Stratford-upon-Avon, England on 1564. He went to grammar school but his education prior to that went no further. In the year 1582 he married an older woman by the name Anne Hathaway and they had three children together. On approximately 1590 he left home and traveled to London to work as an actor
In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, the characters Hippolyta and Theseus play a vital role in helping the plot move forward and in balancing the play and characters. One of the more recognizable features of this couple is the stableness of their life, especially accentuated due to their common absence from the play, which results in balancing out the chaotic and magic-filled storyline. One of the more recognizable features of this couple to an onlooker is their common absence
using reference to texts you have studied in class. Literature have existed for millions of year and have undergone countless transformations through the ages. Each genre of literature is unique in their own way and bears their own form and style. A play would not be the same as a poem, even less so a novel. There is a common string across all areas of literature, however. A literary work contains in it the author’s personal world in their mind. Consciously or not, the writer would always influence
The Power Hungry Daughters William Shakespeare wrote King Lear in the later part of his career. Because of this, he exposes a wide range of controversial issues. For instance, children defying their elders and women as subject to power and discrimination. Shakespeare portrays women as being the stronger sex in King Lear opposite of what the standards of the time were. Shakespeare takes the traditionally masculine qualities such as ambition, lust, and greed and crosses them over into two of the female
of morality and are very dangerous. They are violent and cruel, and show no remorse for their actions. In the same way, Iago displays sociopathic behaviours in one of William Shakespeare’s most remarkable tragedies: Othello. This is proven by Iago’s