Literary heritage of the great English dramatist of England W. Shakespeare. Shakespeares career unfolded during the monarchy of Elizabeth I, the Great Virgin Queen from whom the historical period of the Bards life takes its name as the Elizabethan Age.
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Contents Introduction I. Three important points about Shakespeare II. Birth and Early Life III. The Playwright IV. Shakespeares World Conclusion Bibliography Introduction Any discussion of Shakespeares life is bound to be loaded with superlatives. In the course of a quarter century, Shakespeare wrote some thirty-eight plays. Taken individually, several of them are among the worlds finest written works; taken collectively, they establish Shakespeare as the foremost literary talent of his own Elizabethan Age and, even more impressively, as a genius whose creative achievement has never been surpassed in any age. In light of Shakespeares stature and the passage of nearly four centuries since his death, it is not surprising that hundreds of Shakespeare biographies have been written in all of the worlds major languages. Scanning this panorama, most accounts of the Bards life (and certainly the majority of modern studies) are contextual in the sense that they place the figure of Shakespeare against the rich tapestry