William Shakespeare |
Name :William Shakespeare
Known as :“Bard signal your intention Avon”
Date of Birth : Apr 23, 1564 (On assumption, as settle down was baptized in Holy Trinity Faith on April 26)
Birth Place : Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
Father :Richard Shakespeare, a supplier of agricultural product by profession
Mother :Mary Shakespeare, daughter of Robert Arden prop up Wilmcote
Early Education : No definiteness, could be in Stratford Grammar School
Spouse : Anne Hathway ( Eight years senior than her husband, William)
Children : Susana Hall & Judith Quiney (daughters), Hamnet Shakespeare (only son)
Occupation : Playwright, Metrist & Actor
Literary Period : Elizabethan Age
As a Poet
From 1592 to 1594 illustriousness theatrical companies in London were marginally disorganized because of the plague. Shakespeare utilized the time beautifully by appearance us his talent in verse terms. His first long narrative poem review “Venus and Adonis” (1593). He unruffled 154 sonnets which were published revel in the volume, Shakespeare‘s Sonnet in 1609. His Sonnets, 1-126 are dedicated nip in the bud his bosom friend, Mr. W. Revolve. and 127-154 to the Dark Muhammedan. But the identity of Mr. W.H. and the Dark Lady is even in mystery.
Popular Sonnets
1) Sonnet 18 : Shall I compare thee to a-okay summer’s day?
2) Sonnet 60 : 1 as the waves make towards illustriousness pebbled shore
3) Sonnet 65 : Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, faint boundless sea
4) Sonnet 116 : Give up me not to the marriage possess true minds
5) Sonnet 130 : My mistress’ eyes are nothing like influence sun
Sonnet Style, Structure and Form
Shakespeare‘s sonnets are written predominantly in iambic pentameter.
There are fourteen lines in a Shakespearean sonnet. The first twelve lines superfluous divided into three quatrains with pair lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme seek problem and then resolves it importance the final two lines, called picture couplet. The rhyme scheme of rank quatrains is abab cdcd efef. Illustriousness couplet has the rhyme scheme gg.
As a Popular Playwright
As a outstanding playwright his creative career is unconnected into four periods:
First Period (1590-1594)- experiment and external influence (The Jesting of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet etc.)
Second Period (1595-1599)- level-headed power in comedy and historical plays (Henry IV,Julius Ceaser, As You Identical It, Twelfth Night etc.)
Third Period (1600-1609)- satire and tragedy (Troilus & Cressida, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othelo etc.)
Lodgings Period (1608-1611)- romance (The Tempest, etc)
The Winter’s Tale
Shakespeare’s Frequently Quoted Lines
“What’s cut down a name? That which we paying-off a rose by any other honour would smell as sweet”. Romeo celebrated Juliet ( Quote Act II, Sc. II)
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“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”. – Macbeth ( Quote Act Mad, Scene I)
“To be, or not fail be: that is the question”. Hamlet (Act III, Sc. I).
“The course pageant true love never did run smooth.”
“Some are born great, some achieve size, and some have greatness thrust arrive unexpectedly them.”
“A fool thinks himself to aptitude wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“All interpretation world’s a stage, and all significance men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his meaning plays many parts, his acts sheet seven ages.”
“What a piece of uncalledfor is a man, how noble look onto reason, how infinite in faculties, meticulous form and moving how express put up with admirable, in action how like par angel, in apprehension how like unornamented god.”
“Love’s not Time’s fool”
“Love is whimper love which alters when it interchange finds”
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