Shakespeare, William: The Bard of Avon & England's National poet

William Shakespeare:

(1564-1616)

William Shakespeare, English poet and dramatist was born in Stanford-on Evan in April 1564. From the Parish records and various legal documents we got some detail about his family affairs and business dealings but we don’t know much about the circumstances which led him to write his great works and made him immortal in the English literature world. He was the son of a leading tradesman of Stanford. He therefore, received his education at the town’s grammar school. He married to a girl named Anne Hathaway.
He emerged in the early 1590s as an important young play-writer and poet, and a member of the leading company of actors. In 1958, Francis Meres, a lawyer wrote of him as Britain's greatest dramatist, excelling in every type of drama and poetry.
It is difficult to date Shakespeare's plays because his company was reluctant to have his plays printed lest they should then be performed by rival companies. Only seventeen of his plays were published in his lifetime. His some of the greatest works include ’The Seven Ages of Man’, 'Under the Greenwood Tree’ and dramas like 'Othello', 'Macbeth' and 'Hamlet'.

William Shakespeare

To know English and not to read Shakespeare is as deplorable a waste of knowledge as can be imagined.

'The Reminder' appearing in 1623 in a complete edition of his plays commonly known as the First Folio Dryden, the great poet and critic of the late seventeenth century acclaimed him as supreme among English writers, and that judgment has firmly stood. Indeed, he is widely regarded as the greatest writer in world literature. His poetry at its best is impossible to exceed in power and beauty. No writer has dealt with so many aspects of human behavior so convincingly with such an immense range of characters. No writer can match his excellence in so many kinds of drama history romance comedy and tragedy.

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