Hamlet

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, it have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recite how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Hamlet's mother.

Given the play's dramatic structure and depth of characterization, Hamlet can be analyzed, interpreted and argued about from many perspectives. For example, commentators have puzzled for centuries about Hamlet's hesitation in killing his uncle. Some see it as a plot device to prolong the action, and others see it as the result of pressure exerted by the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge and thwarted desire. More recently, psychoanalytic critics have examined Hamlet's unconscious desires, and feminist critics have re-evaluated and rehabilitated the often maligned characters of Ophelia and Gertrude.

Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play, and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language. It provides a storyline capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others".[1] During Shakespeare's lifetime the play was one of his most popular works,[2] and it still ranks high among his most-performed, topping, for example, the Royal Shakespeare Company's list since 1879.[3] It has inspired writers from Goethe and Dickens to Joyce and Murdoch, and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella".[4] The title role was almost certainly created for Richard Burbage, the leading tragedian of Shakespeare's time;[5] in the four hundred years since, it has been played by the greatest actors, and sometimes actresses, of each successive age.

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Cymbeline

Cymbeline (/sɪmbəliːn/) is a play by William Shakespeare, early Celtic British King. Although considered as a tragedy in the First Folio,modern scholars classify it as a romance. Like Othello, Measure for Measure, and The Winter's Tale, it deals with the themes of innocence and jealousy. While its date of composition is known to have been produced as early as 1611.

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Coriolanus

Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, based on the life of the legendary Roman leader, Gaius Martius Coriolanus.


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Coriolanus

Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, based on the life of the legendary Roman leader, Gaius Martius Coriolanus.


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The Comedy of Errors

This article is about the Shakespearean play. For other uses, see Comedy of errors (disambiguation).
Facsimile of the first page of The Comedy of Errors from the First Folio, published in 1623.
Facsimile of the first page of The Comedy of Errors from the First Folio, published in 1623.

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1594. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and wordplay. The Comedy of Errors (along with The Tempest) is one of only two of Shakespeare's plays to observe the classical unities. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre.

The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-incestuous seduction, the arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus, and accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession.

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As You Like

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare based on the novel Rosalynde by Thomas Lodge, believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600. It features one of Shakespeare's most famous and oft-quoted lines, "All the world's a stage", and has been adapted for radio, film, and musical theatre.


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Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra is a play by William Shakespeare, often considered a tragedy although this is debated and originally printed in the First Folio of 1623.

The plot is based or thought to be on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play characterized by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome. Many consider the role of Cleopatra in this play one of the most complex female roles in Shakespeare's work. She is frequently vain and histrionic, provoking an audience almost to scorn; at the same time, Shakespeare's efforts invest both her and Antony with tragic grandeur. These contradictory features have led to famously divided critical responses.

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All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare, originally classified as a comedy, though now often counted as one of his problem plays, so-called because they cannot be easily classified as tragedy or comedy. It was probably written in later middle part of Shakespeare's career, between 1601 and 1608, and was first published in the First Folio in 1623.
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William Shakespeare

illiam Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 - April 23, 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world pre-eminent playwright. It is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His works include 38 plays, [b] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into all major languages, and are made more often than any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born and grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At age 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who brought three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a brilliant career in London as an actor, writer and part owner plays the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He seems to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few documents Shakespeare privacy survive, and there has been speculation on issues like sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare products best known for his work between 1590 and 1613. His early works were mostly comedies and histories, genres, it is brought to the edge of sophistication and art by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly about tragedies until 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth, examined some of the finest examples in the English language. In its last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and has worked with other playwrights. Many of his pieces were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy of his lifetime, and in 1623 two of his former colleagues theatre issued the first in-folio, an edition of his dramatic works, in particular, but all both games now recognized as Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his time, but his reputation is not at its height until the nineteenth century. The romantic, in particular, hailed the genius of Shakespeare and Victorian hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry." [4] In the twentieth century, his work has been adopted repeatedly and rediscovered by new movements on the stock exchange and representation. His plays are still very popular today and are still performed and reinterpreted in various cultural communities and political