William Shakespeare Biography
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PLACE OF
BIRTH : Stratford-upon-Avon, United
Kingdom
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BEST KNOWN
FOR : William Shakespeare, English poet, dramatist, and actor, often called the
English national poet, is widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time.
William Shakespeare was baptized April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon,
England. From roughly 1594 onward he was an important member of the Lord
Chamberlain's company of players. Written records give little indication of the
way in which Shakespeare's professional life molded his artistry. All that can
be deduced is that over 20 years Shakespeare wrote more than a million words of
drama.
(Baptized April 26, 1564,
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Eng.—died April 23, 1616,
Stratford-upon-Avon) English poet, dramatist, and actor, often called the
English national poet and considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of
all time.
Shakespeare occupies a position unique in world literature. Other poets,
such as Homer and Dante, and novelists, such as Tolstoy and Charles Dickens, have transcended national barriers; but no writer's living reputation
can compare to that of Shakespeare, whose plays, written in the late 16th and
early 17th centuries for a small repertory theatre, are now performed and read
more often and in more countries than ever before. The prophecy of his great
contemporary, the poet and dramatist Ben Jonson, that Shakespeare “was not of an
age, but for all time,” has been fulfilled.
It may be audacious even to
attempt a definition of his greatness, but it is not so difficult to describe
the gifts that enabled him to create imaginative visions of pathos and mirth
that, whether read or witnessed in the theatre, fill the mind and linger there.
He is a writer of great intellectual rapidity, perceptiveness, and poetic
power. Other writers have had these qualities, but with Shakespeare the
keenness of mind was applied not to abstruse or remote subjects but to human
beings and their complete range of emotions and conflicts. Other writers have
applied their keenness of mind in this way, but Shakespeare is astonishingly
clever with words and images, so that his mental energy, when applied to
intelligible human situations, finds full and memorable expression, convincing
and imaginatively stimulating. As if this were not enough, the art form into
which his creative energies went was not remote and bookish but involved the
vivid stage impersonation of human beings, commanding sympathy and inviting
vicarious participation. Thus, Shakespeare's merits can survive translation
into other languages and into cultures remote from that of Elizabethan England.
Life
Although the amount of factual
knowledge available about Shakespeare is surprisingly large for one of his
station in life, many find it a little disappointing, for it is mostly gleaned
from documents of an official character. Dates of baptisms, marriages, deaths,
and burials; wills, conveyances, legal processes, and payments by the
court—these are the dusty details. There are, however, many contemporary
allusions to him as a writer, and these add a reasonable amount of flesh and
blood to the biographical skeleton.
Early life in Stratford
The parish register of Holy Trinity
Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, shows that he was baptized there
on April 26, 1564; his birthday is traditionally celebrated on April 23. His
father, John Shakespeare, was a burgess of the borough, who in 1565 was chosen
an alderman and in 1568 bailiff (the position corresponding to mayor, before
the grant of a further charter to Stratford in 1664).
SUMMARY
Hamlet was
the prince of Denmark. His father died and her uncle “Claudius” married her mother “Gertrude”. Claudius
got the throne of Denmark when he married Gertrude, but the marriage made
hamlet very sad. One night, Hamlet’s father ghost came to the castle, he said to Horatio and
Hamlet that Claudius who killed him. The ghost ordered Hamlet to kill Claudius
and the ghost disappeared after he told all of about his death. Hamlet thought
the death of his father and he was very stress to think about it. He decided to
kill Claudius but he thought about the strategies. He made a drama in the castle;
he invited all of the people in the castle, especially Claudius and Gertrude.
He ordered the player of drama to play the scene of his father death; he just
wanted to know the expression of Claudius when he saw the drama.
When the
drama was played,
Claudius got up from seated and left the room. Hamlet and Horatio agreed that his act showed the guilty feelings of
Claudius. When hamlet heard the sound of spinning wheel, he guessed that he is
Claudius who hid behind of the curtain. He killed him with his sword and actually he was not Claudius
but Polonius. Polonius was Ophelia and Leartes’s Father. Ophelia was hamlet’s
girlfriend. Because of her father death,
Ophelia was very crazy and she sank in the river. Finally, she was died.
Claudius
thought that his safety was in danger. So, he sent Hamlet and Horatio to England. Claudius
also ordered the England’s king to kill Hamlet. Yet, Hamlet and horatio broke
away from the ship which brought them to England. Hamlet went home and he saw
the Ophelia’s funeral. Leartes was very angry to hamlet because his father and her sister death.
Leartes invited hamlet to fight with sword. Before they fight, Claudius gave Poisson in
the Leartes’s
sword. Claudius also prepared a glass of water with poisson for hamlet if he rest for a minute from
the fight. Gertrude drank hamlet’s water intuitively which was prepared by Claudius.
Suddenly she was died. After that, Leartes’s sword incised hamlet and Leartes
told that the sword was given Poisson by Claudius. Before hamlet died, he stabbed the sword
to the Claudius and forced him to drink the residue of Poisson until he died.
Finally, hamlet also died because the incision of the poisonous sword.
Moral value:
Finally the wickedness
will be annihilated.
Do not easy to belive
with someone, although he/she is close with you.
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