A brief introduction to Shakespeare's works and poems

Shakespeare (W. william shakespeare; ; 1564 ~ 16 16) was a great playwright and poet in the English Renaissance and a master of humanistic literature in the European Renaissance.

Chinese name: william shakespeare.

William Shakespeare

Nationality: UK

Place of birth: Stratford, Warwickshire, England

Date of birth:1April 23, 564

Date of death:1665438+May 3, 2006

Occupation: playwright, poet, actor

Representative Works: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth.

There are four tragedies in Shakespeare's representative works: Hamlet (English: Hamlet), Othello (English: Othello), King Lear (English: King Lear) and Macbeth (English: Macbeth). Famous comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, and Everybody is Happy. Historical plays: Henry IV, Henry V, charles ii, etc. He also wrote 154 sonnets and two long poems. Ben Jonson called him "the soul of the times", and Marx called him and Aeschylus of ancient Greece "the greatest drama genius of mankind". Although Shakespeare writes only in English, he is a world-famous writer. Most of his works have been translated into many languages, and his plays have been staged in many countries. 16 16 died on May 3rd. Shakespeare was born in the same year as Galileo, a famous Italian mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher, and a pioneer of modern experimental science.