Shakespeare

The world of theatre wouldn’t be what it represents today if it wasn’t for great
playwriters such as Sophocles who wrote Oedipus Rex, Molière who wrote Tartuffe and Don
Juan, Samuel Beckett who wrote Waiting for Godot and Eugene Ionesco who wrote the play
The Bald Soprano, but none of them are more important and more influential that the one
who is consider the greatest playwriter of all time: William Shakespeare.
Born in 1564, Shakespeare also nicknamed ‘’The Bard of Avon’’ coming from the
named of the town he was born in, Strafford upon Avon, England, didn’t star with initially
writing plays. His biggest wish at first was to become a famous actor, which was viewed as a
strange thing considering that Shakespeare was born into a wealthy family. Although his
decision of becoming an actor wasn’t meet with great encouragement coming from his
relatives, Shakespeare achieved a burst of success even as an actor in very short time.
Then, The Bard of Avon started to write his own plays. He wrote more than 37 plays
from which we will name a few such as: Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, Othello,
Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
Shakespeare plays were divided intro three main categories: Comedies (As You Like
It, The Merchant of Venice), Tragedies (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet), Histories (Richard II,
Richard III).
After having enough financial gains, Shakespeare started to build his own theatre in
1599, named The Globe. His theatre is now a museum and a place where his plays are still
being staged even today.
I consider William Shakespeare to be one of the most important playwrights of all
time, he influenced so much the modern world especially when we are referring to the
world of cinematography, where the personality traits of Shakespeare’s characters are
embedded into the characters of today’s films.
His philosophical monologues such as Hamlet’s monologue has opened the door to a
whole spectrum of philosophy theories from existentialism to absurdism.
Shakespeare will be forever considered the greatest writer of the English writer and
one of the greatest writers of all time sitting aside other great writers such Homer with his
Odyssey, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with Faust, and Dante Alighieri with his Divina
Commedia.
His plays will be even today relevant and play an important part in our universal
cultural and in our societies by shaping our idea of the human condition, relationships, and
love.