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         William Shakespeare.
       William Shakespeare is the greatest of all playwrights and poets of
all times. Not much is known of his life. He was probably the son of a
businessman and was born in 1564 in Stradford-upon-Avon. He probably
attended the local grammar school and got a classical education. In 1582 he
married Anne Hathaway and had 3 children. Little is known of his life
before 1592, when he appeared as a playwright in London. Soon he became an
actor playing supporting roles like the ghost in «Hamlet». In 1599
Shakespeare became a part owner of the Globe Theatre in London.
     Shakespeare’s work as a playwright is subdivided into 3 periods.
Written in the first period, Shakespeare’s plays are mostly history plays
like «Henry VI», and comedies with strong elements of farce. His
masterpiece of this period is «Romeo and Juliet».
     In the second period Shakespeare wrote a number of comedies where he
moved away from farce towards romance. In the third period, after 1600,
appeared his major tragedies – «Hamlet», «Othello». They presented a clear
opposition of order to chaos, good to evil.
     Shakespeare was a great poet and would be well known for his poetry
alone. His major achievement as a poet is his sonnets, first published in
1609. A sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines, with a moral at the end.
The sonnets are addressed to some «W.H.», and to mysterious «Dark Lady of
Sonnets». The sonnets deal with the great themes of love, friendship,
death, change and immortality. Shakespeare looks at his own poetry as a
means of immortality. Shakespeare’s sonnets are excellent. They are full of
harmony and music; they praise love, friendship and beauty, though there is
no sentimentality in them.
     Shakespeare’s poetry is at the summit of human achievement. Many
centuries have passed since his death in 1616, but Shakespeare is still
considered to be the greatest of all playwrights and poets.

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