Book

A book is one of the wonders of the world. It gives us a unique chance to link up
with authors who lived hundred and thousands of years ago. A book if a faithful, and
understanding friend: it can be put aside and taken up again at any moment. Books
are our teachers, they help us to learn more about nature and the world around us.
Books help us to learn how to express our thoughts and feelings more exactly, they
help us to enrich our vocabulary.

I can’t say what people must read, because everyone like different kind of book,
somebody like detective, smb novels, smb essay or diaries. Choose a book, as you
choose a friend; choose interesting book, don’t read book if you don’t like it.

William Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest and the most famous of all
writers. He is a vivid representative of the Renaissance. The last half of the 16th
century and the beginning of the 17th century are known as the golden age of
English literature or the age of Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616)[a] was an English poet and playwright,
Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway,
who bore him three children, she was 8 years older than himself.
At the age of 22 Shakespeare left Stratford for London, where he joined the theatre company
known as Chamberlin’s men where he worked as an actor and the playwright.
Shakespeare experience as an actor helped him greatly on writing of his plays. His knowledge of
the stage, observingmind, a profound understanding of life mad his plays the most remarkable
ever written.
Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets. His most famous plays are the five great tragedies-
Othello, Romeo& Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet. The problems raised in these tragedies
still produce a powerful impression on our emotions and feelings. 8 of his historical plays are
about English kings, others dealt with Roman history.
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were
mainly comedies and histories,
4 periods.
Scholars have often noted four periods in Shakespeare's writing career. Until the mid-1590s, he
wrote mainly comedies influenced by Roman and Italian models and history plays in the popular
chronicle tradition.
His second period began in about 1595 with the tragedy Romeo and Juliet and ended with the
tragedy of Julius Caesar in 1599. During this time, he wrote what are considered his greatest
comedies and histories.
From about 1600 to about 1608, his "tragic period", Shakespeare wrote mostly tragedies, and
from about 1608 to 1613, mainly tragicomedies, also called romances.
In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more
major plays: Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, as well as the collaboration,
Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
style
Shakespeare's first plays were written in the conventional style of the day. He wrote them in a
stylized language that does not always spring naturally from the needs of the characters or the
drama. The poetry depends on extended, sometimes elaborate metaphors and conceits, and the
language is often rhetorical—written for actors to declaim rather than speak. Soon, however,
Shakespeare began to adapt the traditional styles to his own purposes.

Shakespeare’s genius lay in his power of understanding human nature and the great expressions
of life- love, joy, hatred, jealousy, grief, death. He was able to reveal life in its full richness and
movement. All human life with its passions and delight, victories and defeat, conflicts and
pleasures, was in his plays. He showed the world of men in its complexity and variety.
Shakespeare’s activity as a dramatic and a poet continued until 1612 when he returned to his
native town. He died April 23, 1916, exactly 52 years.