Shakespeare’s plots, which are brilliantly polyvalent, continue to inspire ceaseless adaptations and spin-offs. But he is also the master of the simplest construction, such as Henry’s devastating rebuke to Falstaff (“I know thee not, old man”) or Leontes touching Hermione’s statue in The Winter’s Tale (“O, she’s warm”), three words that any child could understand.Įvery generation continues to be in his debt. He’s “a man of fire-new words” (“equivocal”, “prodigious” and “antipathy”, for instance, get their first citations from him), with a vocabulary of 30,000 words. This dynamic duality runs throughout Shakespeare’s life and work, making him an androgynous and timeless shape-shifter who is impossible to pin down. A few lines later, however, Jonson contradicts himself, declaring that his rival “was not of an age, but for all time”. His friend Ben Jonson, addressing “the Reader”, initially says that “gentle Shakespeare” is the “soul of the age”, placing him firmly in a metropolitan context, as “the wonder of our stage”. Shakespeare’s double life, as both an English and a universal artist (poet and playwright), begins with the First Folio of 1623.
Four hundred years on, his unique gift to our culture, language and imagination has been to universalise the experience of living and writing in late 16th-century England and to have become widely recognised, and loved, across the world as the greatest playwright. In 1613, he retired to Stratford, and passed away on the 23rd of April, 1616.That heartfelt response is, perhaps, Shakespeare’s most astonishing achievement. His literary works have been translated into every major living language, and performed more than that of any playwright in history. He has written 38 plays and 154 sonnets through the course of his career. He is credited with great works like The Tempest, Julius Caesar, and King Lear, among others. He is widely considered as the greatest writer in the English Language. William Shakespeare is an English poet, playwright and actor. This collection is a must-have for those interested in the works of William Shakespeare. Some of the famous plays included in the book are The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and The Tempest, among others. This volume includes the sonnets written by Shakespeare, along with this longer poems like Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Complete Works of William Shakespeare is a collection of all the plays and poems written by William Shakespeare, the greatest playwright of all time.Ĭomplete Works of William Shakespeare is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it comprises all the plays in chronological order in which they were written.
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