Amanda Maduike
Professor Doug Barret
Eng. 102-1005
May 8, 2017 The Mysterious Shakespeare William Shakespeare was born in Stratford upon Avon in 1564. William Shakespeare is known to be the best English playwright. He authored some 37 or more plays, epic poems and 154 sonnets, He retired to his hometown sometime around 1612, where he died. Shakespeare worked the English language and he made up words but his death was a mystery. His words are the most quoted words other than the Bible. Shakespeare did not have college background but …show more content…
To read the sonnet a second time helps to bring some of the detail of that same vision into focus through Shakespeare's arrangement of words, ideas, and sounds. A third reading makes the sonnet begin to appear like a carefully painted canvas in miniature. Words and phrases can become like paint and brushstrokes as the reader/viewer is possibly reminded of a preceding sonnet-canvas, and invited to make visual and semantic connections in Shakespeare's gallery of 154 exhibits. The sonnet then becomes like a living and moving painted image, depicted against the background of its own inextricable verbal music. Shakespeare, who usually engages artistically with a live theatre audience, here makes the Sonnets themselves his living art. It is often exhausting to look at paintings (Shakespeare's Sonnets …show more content…
Shakespeare might not have kept company with poachers, Greenblatt argues, but as a playwright "he was a brilliant poacher deftly entering into territory marked out by others, taking for himself what he wanted, and walking away with his prize under the keeper's nose." Greenblatt also pursues an imaginative inquiry one whose debt to Joyce's "Ulysses" he acknowledges in his bibliographical notes when he makes a case that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son, Hamnet, must have compelled him to write "Hamlet," though Shakespeare in fact wrote three comedies immediately following his son's death(New York Times). He was inspired to write hamlet because of his bad
Professor Doug Barret
Eng. 102-1005
May 8, 2017 The Mysterious Shakespeare William Shakespeare was born in Stratford upon Avon in 1564. William Shakespeare is known to be the best English playwright. He authored some 37 or more plays, epic poems and 154 sonnets, He retired to his hometown sometime around 1612, where he died. Shakespeare worked the English language and he made up words but his death was a mystery. His words are the most quoted words other than the Bible. Shakespeare did not have college background but …show more content…
To read the sonnet a second time helps to bring some of the detail of that same vision into focus through Shakespeare's arrangement of words, ideas, and sounds. A third reading makes the sonnet begin to appear like a carefully painted canvas in miniature. Words and phrases can become like paint and brushstrokes as the reader/viewer is possibly reminded of a preceding sonnet-canvas, and invited to make visual and semantic connections in Shakespeare's gallery of 154 exhibits. The sonnet then becomes like a living and moving painted image, depicted against the background of its own inextricable verbal music. Shakespeare, who usually engages artistically with a live theatre audience, here makes the Sonnets themselves his living art. It is often exhausting to look at paintings (Shakespeare's Sonnets …show more content…
Shakespeare might not have kept company with poachers, Greenblatt argues, but as a playwright "he was a brilliant poacher deftly entering into territory marked out by others, taking for himself what he wanted, and walking away with his prize under the keeper's nose." Greenblatt also pursues an imaginative inquiry one whose debt to Joyce's "Ulysses" he acknowledges in his bibliographical notes when he makes a case that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son, Hamnet, must have compelled him to write "Hamlet," though Shakespeare in fact wrote three comedies immediately following his son's death(New York Times). He was inspired to write hamlet because of his bad