A Research on Major Playwrights- William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is known as the greatest English playwright and poet in history of English literature. He was born on April 23, 1564 in England under the reign of Elizabethan 1. When he was eighteen years old, he got married to Anne Hathaway that much older than him. Around 1586,he left London to try his luck as an actor when there a chance to get on theatre and English language because there already was an established community of playwright at that place. His first tried has making him to be an official playwright to the King of England because Shakespeare was successfully to be named as senior members of Lord Chambelin’s men at an acting company. For his works, he not only an actor but he also an author. He has wrote a variety of genres which is comedies, romance, tragedies and so on. Among his period time of life, he got wrote almost thirty seven plays which contain with many scenes that were so dramatic, clarify, and power that related to the human condition of life.        Shakespeare’s works are divided into different periods that started around 1591 and ended around 1593 which is Titus Andronicus, Love's Labour's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew. Then, for the ending periods, his works are included  includes the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the comedies, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor and the history plays, Henry IV, Parts I and II, Henry V, Richard II, King John and Julius Caesar. Because of his works, he become a successful playwright among the others.                   Around 1610, Shakespeare works much interesting when his works were published within the genres of tragedies, comedies and also an epic history play. For instance,  Hamlet, Othello, Twelfth Night,and Antony and Cleopatra. For the final periods were includes the plays and the genres of romances such as The Winter's Tale and Henry VIII.                  Nowadays, the facts of purely manuscripts of Shakespeare’s work so reliable because it has been written by fellow actors and it would be not considered as pieces of literary work. Everyone who read all the plays might be surprise because he has borrowing plot and taking liberties from earlier plays. The historical fact also was not very uncommon in the meantime of his life and the languages and the element of his plays was so arguably the greatest playwright at the time. WORD CITED: Genius, L.. N.p.. Web. 1 Nov 2013. <http://www.literarygenius.info/william- shakespeare playwright.htm>.