William Shakespeare The Great Author
Hello friends yes today I am going to write about William Shakespeare The Famous Author. we will discuss everything about the great author but let's start from their early life
Early Life
He was born on dated bapt. 26th April 1564 at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.He had no university degree but having lots of practical knowledge and his dramas almost translate in all world's famous languages.William Shakespeare is famous for his texts after bible most readable texts on that time , he is known as BARD OF AVON.He wrote 38-39 dramas & 154 sonnet.
Middle Age
At the age of 18 years William Shakespeare married with Anne Hathway who was 8 years old from William Shakespeare, they had three children in which two daughters(Sussane & Judith) and one son
(Hamnet), Hamnet died at the age of Eleven.His father named John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden.His father was Gloves maker.William Shakespeare studied at King's New School in Stratfort a free school chartered in 1553 just 400 meters from his home.
William Shakespeare's Last Years
Around 1585 William Shakespeare came to London and started his career in partnership he started company named Lord Chamberlain's Men laterly known as King's Men.He was an active writer till 1613, at the age of 49 years,William Shakespeare totally retired and at the age of 52 years he died.During 1585-1613 William Shakespeare was a successful men, but according to his
contemporaries, no texts was write by him, all texts was write by his subordinates and credit were taken by William Shakespeare. Evenly his contemporaries also blamed that he doesn't know how to sign then how he can wrote all these texts.he doesn't knew how to pronounced his name. No play was written by William Shakespeare to earn names,all plays were written just to earn money.
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William Shakespeare was married in 1582, during 1585–1592 this time was called William Shakespeare's Last Years,some peoples believed that William Shakespeare ran from home and came to London for struggle he started London stage performance,Seeing the success of William Shakespeare, his critics attacked on him continuously, regarding his good performance, after so many attacks this known as fact that he is a long race horse and will go ahead.First Folio was published in 1623 and its first preface written by Ben Johnson (William Shakespeare) best friend "Not of an age but for all time".1594 onward his company(LORD'S CHAMBERLAIN'S MEN) performs his play in 1599 he opened a theater in partnership with Globe known as Globe Theater in which he opened theater gate for rich as well as poor peoples also because he knew how to bring a crowd.In very busy life, he wrote poetry too, during 1593-1594 London.
In 1610 William Shakespeare totally retired from Public life One reason for this was also due to the spread of plague disease.After retiring, he used to come to London with his Son in Law and also completed the last play(The Two Noble Kinsmen) with John Fletcher play writer. In 1613 he also retired from the writing area.
He died in 1616 at Stafford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire England and is buried near the church with his grave written on it.
"Good friend for Jesus sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones."
William Shakespeare always wrote according to trend the best part in his career is tragedy.
You must be wondering how Poetry was written in such a busy life in 1593-1594 when plague disease spread in London. At that time the theaters were closed and in the meantime William Shakespeare also wrote Poetry.
WHAT MAKES WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) A FAMOUS AUTHOR?
Have you ever wondered what is so alluring about Shakespeare's work that makes it so popular today, centuries after he lived? Have you ever tried reading the unabridged version of his plays and poems and found the language too difficult to comprehend? There are several reasons as to why Shakespeare works as to why Shakespeare works are evergreen till date.
While most authors stick to only one or two genres in their career, Shakespeare touched upon many genres -tragedy, comedy, history, adventure and love -- and excelled in all. These stories continue to cross culture and time.
They have been translated into many languages and made into modern-day adaptions. This shows that the emotions Shakespeare so deftly captured are relevant even today and not just to his time.
With regard to the difficulty in reading his works, Shakespeare did write in the language of his time but he also employed clever wordplay.He came up with many phrases and words that we use today. Over 1,000 common words in English were invented by Shakespeare.He also changed nouns into verbs, verbs into adjectives, joined words that have never been used together.In other words, he expanded the language to allow is to express ourselves better.There is a fair chance that you unknowingly use a lot of phrases that Shakespeare coined.Turn to the back flap and find out.
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