Outstanding writer of Great Britain (William Shakespeare)

Outstanding writer of Great Britain (William Shakespeare)

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A famous English poet and playwright - William Shakespeare was born in

1564 in a small English city Stratford-upon-Avon.

Shakespeare’s birthplace in Henley Street

This is the classroom where Shakespeare was educated

In 1587 Shakespeare went to work in London, where he began to act and

to write plays and soon became an important member of a well-known acting company.

Richard III

Henry VI

The first recorded works of Shakespeare are Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI, written in the early 1590-s during a vogue for historical drama.

In 1593 and 1594, when the theatres were closed because of plague,

n 1593 and 1594, when the theatres were closed because of plague, Shakespeare published two narrative poems on erotic themes, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Published in 1609, the Sonnets were the last of Shakespeare's non-dramatic works to be printed.

 The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew and The Two Gentlemen

The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew and The Two Gentlemen of Verona may also belong to Shakespeare's earliest period. The Comedy of Errors was also based on classical models Like The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in which two friends appear to approve of rape, the Shrew's story of the taming of a woman's independent spirit by a man sometimes troubles modern critics and directors.

Most of his plays were performed in the new Globe Theatre built on the

bank on the River Thames.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice appear in the

mid-1590s. . In The Merchant of Venice, a well-known comedy, a moneylender asks for a pound of flesh from a merchant who can`t pay him back some money!

The wit and wordplay of Much Ado About Nothing, the charming rural

he wit and wordplay of Much Ado About Nothing, the charming rural setting of As You Like It, and the lively merrymaking of Twelfth Night complete Shakespeare's sequence of great comedies.

After the lyrical Richard II Shakespeare introduced prose comedy into

fter the lyrical Richard II Shakespeare introduced prose comedy into the histories of the late 1590s,Henry IV and Henry V. This period begins and ends with two tragedies: Romeo and Juliet the famous romantic tragedy of sexually charged adolescence, love, and death; and Julius Caesar.

In the early 17th century, Shakespeare wrote the so-called "problem

plays" Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and All's Well That Ends Well and a number of his best known tragedies: Othello, King Lear, Macbeth. His last major tragedies, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus, contain some of Shakespeare's finest poetry and were considered his most successful tragedies.

In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and

n his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more major plays: Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, as well as the collaboration, Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

This is the Holy Trinity Church where Shakespeare was buried

He died on his birthday, 23 April, 1616.

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