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Does this quote sound familiar?; "To be or not to be". That is a quote from William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet. I will be talking about William Shakespeare's writing. During his life he wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems and collaborations. Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies, melodramas, adventures, love stories, and fairy tales. He never published any of his plays. Shakespeare came up with the best of his work between 1589 and 1613.
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Another well-known play by Shakespeare is Romeo and Juliet. It is also a tragedy and is based on the Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (a poem by the English author Arthur Brooke). The play deals with “ two teenage lovers in Verona, Italy, who are caught in a bitter feud between their families." The play, Romeo and Juliet, “draws attention to the violence and aggressiveness that shapes the adult world."
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One of his well-known plays is Hamlet. The full title is Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Hamlet is called “his greatest play and one of the world’s greatest dramas.” The play is a five-act tragedy. “Shakespeare based his Hamlet on another drama called Hamlet, by an unknown English author, and on a story in Histoires Tragiques by the French author Francois de Belleforest.”
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Sonnets are a poetic form that can be found in lyrical poetry from Europe. One of the best known sonnet writers is William Shakespeare. A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet consists of 14 lines. It has ten syllables per line and is written in iambic pentameter. Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter, which was common for that time period.
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He wrote in early modern English. His writing influenced a lot of people including John Keats (a romantic poet). When he was alive he was praised, after his death some people criticized him for "mixing comic with tragedy." During his life Shakespeare came up with new words. He had a vocabulary of 29,000 words. He combined old words and borrowed terms from other languages to form new words. Some words he invented were assanation, birthplace, bloodsucking, downstairs, school boy, and other words.
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