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¶ … Shakespeare and the manner in which he wrote and the theatre of his times.
In this modern world that we live in today we still do not forget the one great playwright William Shakespeare, and this is because of the fact that his work is unique and unmatched to any other. His lifetime, as we are convinced, was full of activity regarding his literary works. But the truth is that we know very little about how he grew up and how he got married. We do however know that it was from the 1597 that he started an active life in acting, in which he performed before the queen. It was in London that he learned how to manage the theatre. It was not long after this that he flourished into an expert playwright whose work would touch the hearts of all who read it (1).
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William Shakespeare was born on 23rd April 1564 to farmer class parents. This is the reason why we find his life so amazing. He grew up in a town where the majority of the people could neither read nor write. It is known that about...
It is known that his careers as an actor as well as a manger both were illustrious and he had a good many years of criticism and success. He lived the latter part of his life actively and died a wealthy man. (1)
Shakespeare and his wife were blessed with a daughter the following of their marriage. Another year later he and his wife were blessed by the birth of Twins, one girl and one boy. The boy's name was Hamnet, and this many believe is the reason for which the play Hamlet is called so. (1)
There were many critics of the works of Shakespeare. Also, there are many areas of his work, which have been disseminated and then criticized. One area in particular is the feminist one. Shakespeare wrote these plays at a time when patriarchy was the order of the day. Women had much less influence, if at all. Shakespeare is criticized for portraying women as sex symbols and depicting them as…
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Namely, it demands us to consider the anomaly potential in Shakespeare's socioeconomic modesty as it compared to his great vocabulary wealth. And in doing so, it draws us into a keener awareness of the courtly life about which Shakespeare wrote with such remarkable acuity and into a similar appreciation for the colorful, frequently playful, representation of commoners in his plays. The intermingling of such figures denotes something of Shakespeare's