Shakespeare’s Timelessness
One of the questions most frequently posed, even these days, is: What makes an author, a creator timeless? As much as skill and dedication play an important role in gaining recognition, these are not the only characteristics necessary to determine whether that certain writer has carved his/her name in the rough stone of immortality, whether he will remembered after centuries. For instance, during Shakespeare’s time, there were other playwrights too, extremely talented but who are not as celebrated and appreciated as he is today.
In this essay, my purpose is to talk about Shakespeare’s legacy and what made him, as Ben Johnson held: “Not of an age, but for all time”, focusing on his still tangible influence over the …show more content…
What sets him apart from his community is his skin colour, a mere indication of where he comes from, which, somehow, manages to eclipse his merits as a wonderful warrior and brave solider. However, when he marries Desdemona he manages to enrage the entire of Venice, who accused him of using witchcraft to get in her good graces. Insecure and gullible, he turns to Iago who is willing to do whatever is in his power to jeopardize his life and his marriage. And he eventually manages to do so by planting into Othello’s trusting heart the seeds of …show more content…
I have of late had the same thought - for things which I do half at Random are afterwards confirmed by my judgment in a dozen features of Propriety. Is it too daring to fancy Shakespeare this Presider?” (qtd. in Mabillard)
Charles Dickens considered Shakespeare: “the great master who knew everything” (qtd. in Schlicke) and even used “Hamlet” in “Great Expectation”, when Pip and Herbert went to the theatre. Thomas Carlyle also talked about Shakespeare’s brilliance in his essay: “The Hero as Poet” and maintained that:
“This King Shakespeare does he not shine, in crowned sovereignty, over us all, as the noblest, gentlest, yet strongest of rallying-signs; indestructible; really more valuable in that point of view than any other means or appliance whatsoever? We can fancy him as radiant aloft over all Nations of Englishmen, thousand years hence.” (qtd. in Mabillard)
In conclusion, William Shakespeare became timeless not only due to his plays but also to his ingenuity, to him we owe the English we speak today, the literature that gave our lives sense and the characters who still remain as remarkable and relatable as they were centuries
One of the questions most frequently posed, even these days, is: What makes an author, a creator timeless? As much as skill and dedication play an important role in gaining recognition, these are not the only characteristics necessary to determine whether that certain writer has carved his/her name in the rough stone of immortality, whether he will remembered after centuries. For instance, during Shakespeare’s time, there were other playwrights too, extremely talented but who are not as celebrated and appreciated as he is today.
In this essay, my purpose is to talk about Shakespeare’s legacy and what made him, as Ben Johnson held: “Not of an age, but for all time”, focusing on his still tangible influence over the …show more content…
What sets him apart from his community is his skin colour, a mere indication of where he comes from, which, somehow, manages to eclipse his merits as a wonderful warrior and brave solider. However, when he marries Desdemona he manages to enrage the entire of Venice, who accused him of using witchcraft to get in her good graces. Insecure and gullible, he turns to Iago who is willing to do whatever is in his power to jeopardize his life and his marriage. And he eventually manages to do so by planting into Othello’s trusting heart the seeds of …show more content…
I have of late had the same thought - for things which I do half at Random are afterwards confirmed by my judgment in a dozen features of Propriety. Is it too daring to fancy Shakespeare this Presider?” (qtd. in Mabillard)
Charles Dickens considered Shakespeare: “the great master who knew everything” (qtd. in Schlicke) and even used “Hamlet” in “Great Expectation”, when Pip and Herbert went to the theatre. Thomas Carlyle also talked about Shakespeare’s brilliance in his essay: “The Hero as Poet” and maintained that:
“This King Shakespeare does he not shine, in crowned sovereignty, over us all, as the noblest, gentlest, yet strongest of rallying-signs; indestructible; really more valuable in that point of view than any other means or appliance whatsoever? We can fancy him as radiant aloft over all Nations of Englishmen, thousand years hence.” (qtd. in Mabillard)
In conclusion, William Shakespeare became timeless not only due to his plays but also to his ingenuity, to him we owe the English we speak today, the literature that gave our lives sense and the characters who still remain as remarkable and relatable as they were centuries