William Shakespeare

(Stratford on Avon, United Kingdom, 1564 - id., 1616) English playwright and poet. Only with his verses
would he have already passed into the history of literature; For his theatrical genius, and especially for the
impressive portrayal of the human condition in his great tragedies, Shakespeare is considered the greatest
playwright of all time.

He was the third children of eight of john Shakespeare, a merchant, and Mary Arden. He
studied at the Grammar school in his hometown. According to some historians, Shakespeare
learned a little of Latin and Greek and they also said that he dropped school at an early age
because of the difficulties his father was going.

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In 1593 he released his poem Venus and Adonis, and was very well received in London literary
circles, was one of his first successes.

Romeo and Juliet

The Capulets and the Montagues. Romeo and Juliet meet in a party, Montague's son Romeo and his
friends (Benvolio and Mercutio) hear of the party and resolve to go in disguise. Romeo hopes to
see his beloved Rosaline at the party.

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Romeo does not arrive in time because the plague is in town, Hearing from his servant that
Juliet is death, Romeo buys a poison. He returns to the tomb and there he drinks the poison
and dies. Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo death, so she decides to commit suicide and stab
herself.
 Topic 4 summary
The Renaissance "is the transition between the Middle Ages and the modern age (Fournier and
Gonzalez, 2002)." Thus, the influence of Greek and Latin was a very important one, only
covered by a critical spirit.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is considered one of the most important writers of literature.
He was born in Stratford-on-Avon and was the son of a wealthy family. In his early plays, he did
not have a lot of scenography: there was no backstage curtain fell.
General Characteristics

• The hero dies.

• The future of the hero is destroyed by terrible events.
• The innocents suffer.
Because of its vast production and ability to write plays that would become paradigms in the
future, many doubted that Shakespeare had written all the works attributed to him. Some say
that some of the texts were written by Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, and Edward de
Vere, among others. At the end, the theater would change forever from the incursion of
Shakespeare and his intuitive human observation.
t is time to proceed with the concepts that can help us have a better understanding of the texts
and analyze them. We are talking about the types of narrators that exist and how the
characters develop in a text.
In the first instance, we must clarify that the narrator of the story is not the author. So if I am
reading the book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, though he has
written it, that does not automatically make him the narrator of the book, just the author who
invented the world in which the characters are developed. The author is a real person, the
narrator, a fictional character.
Among some of the most usual narrators are:
• The protagonist is the one who tells in first person his own story
• The secondary character is telling what he saw or heard
• The omniscient is the narrator who knows all about the characters
• Second person speaks in the second person and it seems as if he were speaking to the
reader directly