BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA.

MINISTRY OF POPULAR POWER FOR EDUCATION.

BOLIVARIAN HIGH SCHOOL “LIBERTADOR BOLIVAR”.

MIRAFLORES STATE. MONAGAS.

ESSAY ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

PROF. JULIA RUIZ STUDENT. SEBASTIAN PEREZ.

 Introduction:

In this essay we will discuss important points about the life and work of
Shakespeare, we will discuss topics such as his life and everything he did, why he
is respected, and why he is known. The purpose of this essay is to let the reader
know more about this famous actor, writer and poet. Showing various ways to
justify why he is known and famous, even now many years after his death. The
work itself is about Shakespeare's influence today, but as already mentioned in this
section, it will not only discuss this, but also other aspects, considered important
and even relevant. The work is based and designed so that the reader will not only
learn important aspects and concepts about the life and work of Shakespeare but
will also be able to understand and even read some of the author's works due to
the origin with which the author wrote them, For whom? Why?, covering the widest
range of possible aspects. The method used to create the body of the essay is
based on comparisons of authors and critical and impartial points of view, taking
into account some personal opinions that are believed to be important for the
relevance of the topic as well as concepts given by authors or given by
Shakespeare himself. Without anything else to add, we hope that you like the
essay and enjoy it. Not all literature is complicated, nor does it use “strange”
language; it can be quite standard and even use language that is easy to handle
and understand at the same time as the reader.

Shakespeare's influence today.

William Shakespeare, born on April 26, 1564 in Stratford, Avon, England (this
place is now considered a Shakespearean museum). Shakespeare was
occasionally known as: "The Bard of Avon" or simply "The Bard", was of English
nationality. The third of eight siblings, he was the first son of a prosperous
merchant who rose to a prominent position in the municipality, called John
Shakespeare, and Mary Arden, daughter of a Catholic landowner. He attended the
local school and, as the first-born son, Shakespeare's father, who was at the height
of his prosperity when William was born, soon fell into disgrace. Accused of illegal
wool trade, he lost his prominent position in the municipal government. It has also
been suggested that a possible affinity with the Catholic faith on both sides of the
family may have played a role in his prosecution; William Shakespeare probably
attended his early education at the local primary school, Stratford Grammar School
(equivalent to a 16th century Spanish grammar school or today's high school), in
the centre of his hometown, which must have provided him with an intensive
education in Latin grammar and literature. Although the quality of grammar schools
in the Elizabethan period was rather irregular, there is evidence that Stratford was
quite good. Shakespeare's attendance at this school is purely conjectural, based
on the fact that he was legally entitled to free education as the son of a senior local
government official. On November 28, 1582, when he was 18 years old, he married
Anne Hathaway, 26, originally from Temple Grafton, a town near Stratford, the
daughter of a farmer. After his marriage, there is hardly any trace of William
Shakespeare in the historical records, until he makes his appearance on the
London theatre scene. On 26 May 1583, the couple's firstborn daughter, Susanna,
was baptized in Stratford. A son, Hamnet, and a daughter, Judith, born twins, were
also baptized shortly afterwards, on 2 February 1585; Hamnet died at the age of
eleven, and only his daughters survived to adulthood. Judging by the playwright's
will, which is somewhat disdainful of Anne Hathaway, the marriage was not well-
suited. By 1592 Shakespeare was already working in London as a playwright, and
was well enough known to merit a scornful description from Robert Greene, who
portrays him as "an upstart rook, beautified with our feathers, who with his tiger's
heart wrapped in a comedian's skin, thinks himself able to impress with blank verse
as the best of you" and says that he "thinks himself the only scene-shaker in the
country" (in the original, Greene uses the word shake-scene, alluding both to the
author's reputation and to his surname, in a play on words). He soon became co-
owner of the theatrical company known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men, which was
named, like others of the time, after its aristocratic patron, the Lord Chamberlain.
The company would become so popular that, after the death of Elizabeth I and the
accession to the throne of James I Stuart, the new monarch would take it under his
protection, becoming known as the King's Men. William Shakespeare is considered
the most important writer in the English language and one of the most famous in
universal literature. Shakespeare's works have been translated into all major
languages and his plays continue to be performed throughout the world.
Furthermore, many quotes and aphorisms from his works have become part of
everyday usage, both in English and in other languages. Over time, there has been
much speculation about his life, questioning his sexuality, his religious affiliation,
and even the authorship of his works.

1) The illumination of human experience

Shakespeare's ability to sum up the range of human emotions in simple yet

eloquent and profound verse is perhaps the greatest reason for his enduring
popularity. If you can't find words to express how you feel about love, music, or
aging. No author in the Western world has written more beloved passages.
Shakespeare's work was the reason John Bartlett compiled the first major book of
family quotations.

Here are some examples of Shakespeare's most popular passages:

• The seven ages of man

• Can I compare you to a summer day?

• What's in a name?

• Now is the winter of our discontent

• If music is the food of love

• Beware the Ides of March

• We are the stuff dreams are made of

• Something is rotten in the state of Dynamics

• To be or not to be: that is the question.

2) The great stories.

William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller the world has
ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy
spoke of tragedies and people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic
stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told stories and, hand in hand,
Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story -
comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales - and
each of them so well that they have become immortal. In the entire world of
storytelling he has become the biggest name. (Shakespeare's Tales)

3) Force the characters

Shakespeare invented his share of stock characters, but his truly great characters,
particularly his tragic heroes, have no equal in literature, eclipsing even the sublime
creations of the Greek tragedians. Great Shakespearean characters remain
popular because of their complexity. For example, we can see ourselves as
Hamlet, a soft-hearted person, forced against his better nature in pursuit of
murderous revenge.

4) Ability to return to a phrase

Many of today's most common expressions were Shakespeare's creations.

Chances are he uses Shakespearean phrases all the time even though you may
not know it's the Bard he's quoting. You may think that this fact is "neither here nor
there," but that it is "the short and the long of it." Bernard Levin said it best in the
following quote about Shakespeare's impact on our language:
If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's in Greek to me," you are
quoting Shakespeare; and if you claim to be more offended than offending, you are
quoting Shakespeare; if you remember your younger days, you are quoting
Shakespeare; if you act with more sorrow than anger, if your desire is the father of
thought, if your property has been lost or vanished into thin air, you are quoting
Shakespeare; if you have ever refused to yield an inch, or suffered from green
eyes, jealousy, if you have ever played lightly, if you have been dumb, a tower of
strength, cheated, or in a bind, if you have knitted your eyebrows, made a virtue of
necessity, insisted on fair play, never slept a wink, stood on ceremony, danced
attendance (on your lord and master), laughed yourself at points, had too little
attention, comfort, or too much of a good thing, if you have seen better days or
lived in a fool's paradise - why, either way, the more you are ... deceive, for it is a
foregone conclusion that you are (as good luck would have it) quoting
Shakespeare, if you think it is still early and clean with guns and baggage, if you
think it is time and that that is the long and short of it, if you believe that the game
is on and that the truth will out even if it involves your own flesh and blood, if you lie
low until the day of judgment because you suspect foul play, if you have your teeth
set on edge (with one blow) for no rhyme or reason, then - to give the devil his due
- if the truth were to be known (for surely you have a tongue in your head) that you
are quoting Shakespeare, even if you bid me good time and send me packing, if
you wish to be dead as a door-nail, if you believe me to be a monstrosity, a
laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stone-hearted, bloodthirsty villain or a blinking
idiot, then - by Jove! Oh Lord! Wow, wow! For the love of God! What the hell? But I
have no buts - it's all the same to me, because you're quoting Shakespeare. (The
Story of English, 145)

Shakespeare's influence on other artists is also notable. Shakespeare influenced

every generation of writers since his death and he continues to have an enormous
impact on contemporary plays, films and poems. The Romantic poet John Keats
(1795-1821) was so influenced by Shakespeare that he kept a bust of the bard
next to him while he wrote, hoping that Shakespeare might spark his creativity.
Keats's poems duplicate Shakespeare's style and are full of Shakespearean
imagery. In a letter to Benjamin Robert Haydon, dated 10 May 1817, Keats writes: I
remember you saying that you had notions of good genius presiding over you. I
have recently had the same thought - the things I do, half at random, are
subsequently confirmed in my opinion by a dozen property features. Is this
presiding Shakespearean fantasy too bold? It is interesting to note that George
Bernard Shaw (1865-1950), who ridiculed those who worshipped Shakespeare
(inventing an insulting term to refer to the study of Shakespeare - bardolatry),
secretly admired Shakespeare greatly and often told his close friends that he
thought the Bard had an unrivalled command of the tongue. Many authors have
used phrases from Shakespeare's plays as the titles of their own novels. Here is a
list of a few:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (The Tempest, 5.1)

Robert Stone's Dogs of War (Julius Caesar 3.1)

The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck (Richard III, 1.1)

The Undiscovered Country by Auther Schnitzer (Hamlet, 3.1)

Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury (Macbeth, 4.1)

Bell, Book, and watch over John van Druten (King John, 3.3)

In 1899, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree produced King John, the first film based on a
Shakespeare play, and since then there have been dozens of films and
adaptations loosely based on Shakespeare's work, including:

The Boys of Syracuse (1940) - The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Joe Macbeth (1953) - Macbeth

Kiss Me Kate (1953) - The Taming of the Shrew

Forbidden Planet (1956) - The Tempest

Throne of Blood (1957) - Macbeth

 West Side Story (1961) - Romeo and Juliet

Chimes at Midnight (1967) – various plays

Ran (1985) - King Lear

My Own Private Idaho (1991) - 1 Henry IV

You Shall Inherit the Earth (1997) - King Lear

10 Things I Hate About You (1999) - The Taming of the Shrew

Scotland, Pa. (2001) - Macbeth

O (2001) - Othello

Conclusion:

In conclusion, Shakespeare has left an indelible mark on universal history by

contributing the best stories of love, tragedy and comedy ever seen. His works will
transcend the centuries as a heritage of humanity and we will continue to use his
created phrases to express our pain, love and joy. Shakespeare will remain in the
hearts of humanity, influencing many more generations with his profound but short
phrases that reach the heart and describe those feelings that we thought would be
impossible to put into words. Let us hope that in the future the legacy of this
irreplaceable icon of literature will continue to be appreciated and that it will
continue to influence all speakers in all languages as much as it has done to date.
Someday the truth will come to light and everyone will realize its importance and
that even in everyday conversations we quote Shakespeare.

002)Most famous works

Hamlet

It tells how Prince Hamlet takes revenge on his uncle Claudius, who murdered the
king, took the throne and married Hamlet's mother. The work explores themes
such as revenge, betrayal, incest and moral corruption. Hamlet is Shakespeare's
longest play and one of the most powerful and influential tragedies in literature.
During his lifetime this was one of Shakespeare's most popular works and even
today it is one of the author's most frequently performed works. It has inspired
writers such as Goethe and Dickens and has been described as "the most filmed
story in history after Cinderella." It is undoubtedly one of the greatest dramas ever
written and in its centuries of life it has been performed by the greatest actors and
actresses of its generations.

Othello: The Moor of Venice

It is believed that this tagedia was written approximately in 1603, the work revolves
around 4 main characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his ensign Iago and
Ludovico. Proving its popularity, the play appeared in seven different editions
between 1622 and 1705, and its varied themes - racism, love, jealousy and
betrayal - remain relevant to this day and are often performed by professionals and
ordinary people alike. The work has also served as inspiration for numerous
operas, films and literary adaptations.

Macbeth
This is one of Shakespeare's best-known plays and is his shortest tragedy,
possibly written between 1603 and 1606. It is frequently performed at professional
and amateur levels around the world. It has been adapted into films and literary
works, operas, and has also inspired music. The play talks about the dangers of
the lust for power and betrayal between friends.

There are many superstitions surrounding the play that say it is cursed and many
actors do not mention the name of the play out loud, instead referring to it as "the
Scottish play."

A Midsummer Night's Dream

This romantic comedy will portray the adventures of four young lovers, a group of
novice actors, their interactions with Theseus and Hippolyta (prince and princess of
Athens) and with the fairies that inhabit a forest. This work is one of Shakespeare's
most popular.

Romeo and Juliet

This work is the tragedy of two young teenagers in love whose families are in
mourning, which makes their love unacceptable. The script has been acclaimed for
its language and dramatic effect. It is one of Shakespeare's best-known and most
performed works. The influence of the work is still seen today in all art media.

Shakespeare wrote 26 literary works