Shakespeare’s Interpretation

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( Shakespeare’s Contribution in English Drama )

William Shakespeare Biography

Shakespeare influenced novelists such as ThomasHardy, William Faulkner, and Charles Dickens. TheAmerican novelist Herman Melville's soliloquiesowe much to Shakespeare; his Captain Ahab inMoby-Dick is a classic tragic hero, inspired by KingLear.

Specifically, in plays like Hamlet,

Shakespeare "integrated characterization

with plot," such that if the main character

was different in any way, the plot would be

totally changed

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare mixed tragedy and comedytogether to create a new romantic tragedy genre (previous toShakespeare, romance had not been considered a worthy topicfor tragedy).Through his soliloquies, Shakespeare showed howplays could explore a character's inner motivations and conflict(up until Shakespeare, soliloquies were often used byplaywrights to "introduce (characters), convey information,provide an exposition or reveal plans")

Shakespeare's work has

made a lasting impression on later

theatre and literature. In particular,

he expanded the dramatic potential

of characterisation, plot, language,

and genre.

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Shakespeare's plays portrayed a wide variety of

emotions. His plays exhibited "spectacular

violence, with loose and episodic plotting, and

with mingling of comedy with tragedy".In King

Lear, Shakespeare had deliberately brought

together two plots of different origins. His

closeness to human nature made him greater than

any of his contemporaries. Humanism and

contact with popular thinking gave vitality to his

language. Shakespeare's plays borrowed ideas

from popular sources, folk traditions, street

pamphlets, and sermons etc. Shakespeare used

groundlings widely in his plays. The use of

groundlings "saved the drama from academic

stiffness and preserved its essential bias towards

entertainment

in comedy "

If I profane with my unworthiest handThis holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready standTo smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

—In his first words to Juliet, Romeo, holding her hand, wittily begs permission to kiss her hand.

How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,Like softest music to attending ears!—In the balcony scene, after Juliet is called in, then comes back out and calls to Romeo, he is enthralled by the sound of her voice.Good night, good

night! parting is such sweet sorrow,That I shall say good night till it be morrow.—In the balcony scene, just before she goes in for the last time, Juliet says good night.

“There are more things in

Heaven and Earth, Horatio,

than are dreamt of in your

philosophy.”― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;

No more; and, by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble

in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in

moving, how express and admirable! in

action how like an angel! in apprehension

how like a god! the beauty of the world! the

paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is

this quintessence of dust?”― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory,

this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging

firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it

appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation

of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!

how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and

admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a

god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to

me, what is this quintessence of dust?”― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Shakespeare’s Works

Tragedy

Comedy

History

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