There are four tragedies: Hamlet (English: Hamlet), Othello (English: Othello), King Lear (English: King Lear) and Macbeth (English: Macbeth). Four comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night and All is Happy. Historical plays: Henry IV, Henry V, Richard 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. 1665438+ passed away on April 23rd, 2006. Shakespeare was born in the same year as Galileo, a famous Italian mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher, and a pioneer of modern experimental science.
Shakespeare's poems account for one of the eleven volumes of the Complete Works translated into Chinese, but few people pay attention to them, and people pay more attention to his drama creation. In fact, all 37 plays written by Shakespeare in his life were written in poetic style. It is these creations called poetic dramas and the success of their performances that have built a towering monument for Shakespeare, which makes people applaud and make future generations linger, and is regarded as an excellent cultural heritage in the history of human culture.