Essays on William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and a playwright. He wrote thirty eight plays and one hundred fifty four sonnets. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest writer in the English language. His work included tragedy, comedy, and historical works. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. William Shakespeare…

Have you ever heard of the Bard of Avon? He is only the number one best-selling fiction author of all time! Still don’t know? It’s William Shakespeare! Does his name ring a bell? Let me tell you about his life story. William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. He was baptized on…

Did you know that William Shakespeare wrote nearly 40 known plays, covering comedies, tragedies, historical plays, tragicomedies, and romances, and more than 150 sonnets? William Shakespeare was born in April of 1564 and passed away from an unknown cause in April 23, 1616. He was the oldest surviving child of John and Mary Shakespeare. While…

This paper consists of known facts and maybe some unknown facts about William Shakespeare. Very little information is known about Shakespeare in the early years it was a very private person. He was born in 1564 in Stratford upon Avon to a middle-class merchant family he was the third of eight children. By the time…

What makes a lovable, worthy fictional hero? Is it inexhaustible kindness, the ability to repeatedly forgive and forget? Or is it courage, the ordinary acts of bravery that drive one person to stand up for another? Is it wit and instant comebacks that leave his hind positively astounded? Or is it the adorable Innocence and…

Holy Sonnet Describe and Compare the Theme of Death as Explained in Death Be Not Proud by John Donne and Sonnet 71 by William Shakespeare The two poems provide a complete contrast as regard Death. Death Be Not Proud is written by a Christian Minister (John Donne) and is therefore based on a religious theme,…

Throughout history, society has been divided by social disparity and stratification. People from all walks of life are classified into the existing hierarchy of social class according to their economic, racial, educational, and even political status, of which the existing social class and hierarchy are made. In William Shakespeare play adaptation of Mid-Summer Night Dreams,…

The works of William Shakespeare is customary regarded to the finest dramatist the world has ever seen due to his many poems and plays. He may have been deceased for over four hundred years, but his work lives on. William Shakespeare’s work continues to leave a mark on literature to this day. This man’s work…

A man with only a grammar school education was able to become a highly regarded English poet, playwright, and actor. This renowned writer is known as, William Shakespeare. His works include; 38 plays, 154 sonnets, 2 narrative poems, and a variety of other poems. One of his most famous works is the play, the Taming…

While William Shakespeare’s exact date was unknown, his parents were John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. William was his mother’s third child of eight, but the first to survive infancy. He was baptized on April 26, 1564 in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. “This has led scholars to conjecture that he was born on April 23rd,…