THE GREAT PLAY WRITER AND AUTHOR -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

William Shakespeare is the best British writer of all time. His many works are about life, love, death, revenge, grief, jealousy, murder, magic and mystery. He wrote the blockbuster plays of his day - some of his most famous are Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
 William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was John and Mary Shakespeare's oldest surviving child; their first two children, both girls, did not live beyond infancy. His birthday is most commonly celebrated on 23 April , which is also believed to be the date he died in 1616.He  is  regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.


Hamlet, the play voted Shakespeare's greatest in  survey of more than 300 actors, writers, directors and producers, is thought to have been written between 1599 and 1601, and the four-and-a-half hour epic beat King Lear and the lighter offering of A Midsummer's Night's Dream to the top spot.

• 10 most famous works of Shakespeare

1. 1 – Romeo and Juliet (1595) ...
2. 2 – The Merchant of Venice (1595-96) ...
3. 3 – Henry V (1597-99) ...
4. 4 – Much Ado About Nothing (1598) ...
5. 5 – Hamlet (1601) ...
6. 6 – Three Kings Night (1601-02) ...
7. 7 – Othello (1603-04) ...
8. 8 – King Lear (1605-06)
9. Shakespeare is famous because he wrote some great stories. People love stories above all else. One of the reasons his plays are so popular is because he wrote about kings and queens, and big lives have room for big tragedies.

 His plays give us the greatest sense of the value of human life; of how people live; of how people love and of the importance of human relationships than any other writers of his time or of any other time. Shakespeare's plays are as popular as they are because he was perhaps the greatest writer who has ever lived. 

•  Shakespeare's Most Famous Quotes.  

• “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.” 

• .“Men at some time are masters of their fates: .

• "Good night, good night! ..."
• All the world's a stage, ..."
• The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
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  • “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
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  • THE   MACBETH.
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    A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia.
  • The play begins with the brief appearance of a trio of witches and then moves to a military camp, where the Scottish King Duncan hears the news that his generals, Macbeth and Banquo, have defeated two separate invading armies—one from Ireland, led by the rebel Macdonwald, and one from Norway.
  • For 14 years, Macbeth seems to have ruled equably, imposing law and order and encouraging Christianity. In 1050, he is known to have travelled to Rome for a papal jubilee. He was also a brave leader and made successful forays over the border into Northumbria, England. 
  •  Macbeth is very   important to the play because we get to know him intimately through his soliloquies and speeches. Macbeth is also introduced at the beginning of the play by other characters following Aristotle's rules of tragedies. ... The audience see Macbeth go from a hero, to being pressured by his wife to kill Duncan.
  • Lady Macbeth is ambitious. She is manipulative and uses several techniques of a skilled manipulator to entice Macbeth into the murder of Duncan. Usually thought of as a hard, ruthless woman, she is, in reality, soft.
  •  At the end of the play, Macbeth's severed head is brought to Malcolm by Macduff, proof that Macbeth has been overthrown, and that Scotland is now Malcom's to rule. ... In his final speech, Malcolm also mentions that Lady Macbeth is said to have committed suicide.
  •   The main themes of Macbeth-Key themes of Shakespeare's Macbeth include: good versus evil, the dangers of ambition, the influence of supernatural forces, the contrast between appearance and reality, loyalty and guilt
  •  The main theme of Macbeth—the destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints—finds its most powerful expression in the play's two main characters.
  •  The message of Macbeth.
    
    

    The Corrupting Power of Unchecked Ambition.
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