William Shakespeare:

The immortal Bard

The greatest writer in the English language and the world prominent dramatist William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in April, 1564. He was the third child of John Shakespeare and Mari Arden. John Shakespeare was on of the most prosperous men of Stratford and Mari Arden was the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer Robert Arden.

At the age of eighteen William married Anne Hathaway, daughter of a farmer. Susanna was their first child and they also had twins, Hamnet and Judith. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare's hand and mind went together, and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness that we have scarcely received from him a blot in his papers. 'Shakespeare's first plays were written in the conversational style of the day. But then he began to adept the traditional styles to his writings. Shakespeare's characters were complex and human in nature.

Shakespeare's works express the complete range of human experience. His plays make effective use of the soliloquy. and the general style is comparable to several of his contemporaries.

With Shakespeare's work, anyone, young or adult, male or female alike-can learn the most important lessons in life. Ethical actions, good deeds, principles, philosophies and many more are all incorporated in each of Shakespeare's work. Also he seemed to know exactly how to appreciate beauty, human life and love.

Between 1585 and 1592 Shakespeare began a successful career in London as an actor, writer and part owner of the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1590 and 1613. His plays were mainly comedies and histories.

Some of his comedies are The Merchant of Venice, As you Like it, All's Well that Ends Well, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

King John, Richard 11, Richard 111, Henry 4, Henry 5 are some of his histories. He was the owner of well known tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and Othello. He was a poet and also a sonneteer Shakespearean sonnets are very creative and has good ideas.

pected poet and playwright in his own day his reputation didn't rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The romantics, in particular acclaimed Shakespeare's genius and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "Bardotry".

In twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new monuments in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in divers cultural and political contexts.

Though Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616, his name never die. William Shakespeare is an eternal name in literature.