He might have died almost 400 years ago, but William Shakespeare is a name that will never be forgotten
He might have died almost 400 years ago, but William Shakespeare is a name that will never be forgotten.
CS gives you more dope on the best playwright to have ever lived, as we remember him on his birthday that was yesterday:
*u00a0His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.
*u00a0His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
*u00a0Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, which are considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.
*u00a0Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination'.
*u00a0Some say that Queen Elizabeth actually wrote under the pseudonym of William Shakespeare. But there isn't enough evidence to suggest the same.
*u00a0Racism crops up frequently in the Bard's work. In Othello, the lead character, a Moor of African descent, is continuously insulted for his heritage and appearance by his enemies and even his supporters. Racism also occurs in Titus Andronicus (towards the Moor named Aaron), The Tempest where the giant Caliban is called 'this thing of darkness'.
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