I'm going to see you a second time, by the way. Uh.BOOGEDY!ĬAESAR'S GHOST: Uh.that's it? Not even an "eek?" Fine, whatever. I'm not even joking.*īRUTUS: Man, ruling Rome was a lot more fun when we weren't being invaded by Octavius.ĬAESAR'S GHOST: BOOGEDY BOOGEDY BOOGEDY! AVENGE.oh, wrong play. but Caesar was generous and humble and basically god on earth, and they totally killed him in cold blood.ĬROWD: RAAAAAAA! KILL THEM ALL!!! *grabs torches and pitchforks and kills fucking everyone, including a random poet who has the same name as one of the conspirators. Now to hold a huge funeral and let his best friend deliver the eulogy to the large, violence-prone mob.ĪNTONY: So the guys who killed Caesar aren't bad guys, really.ĪNTONY. *Caesar skips off to the Senate, confident in the knowledge that he's in a Shakespeare play, where dreams don't predict anything and main characters never get offed*ĬAESAR: Hey, why didn't anyone tell me it was Bring A Dagger To Work Day?ĬASSIUS: Good, he's dead.
My wife just had a dream about you and the rest of the senators washing their hands in my blood, so I think I'm going to call in sick today.ĭECIUS: Okay, I'll just tell the guys that you're a pussy who lets his wife tell him what to do. Ready to go to the Senate?ĬAESAR: I dunno. I think we should kill him.ĭECIUS: Happy Ides of March, Caesar. There have been plays and sonnets attributed to Shakespeare that were not authentically written by the great master of language and literature.ĬASSIUS: He's a power-hungry bastard. Shakespeare's writing average was 1.5 plays a year since he first started writing in 1589. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.Īccording to historians, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets throughout the span of his life. In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 15. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Between 15 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. Scholars believe that he died on his fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St George’s Day.Īt the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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