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Write personality profile of William Shakespeare |
| Answer» <p>Shakespeare was born and brought up inStratford-upon-Avon,Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he marriedAnne Hathaway, with whom he had three children:Susanna, and twinsHamlet andJudith. </p><p>Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of aplaying companycalled the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as theKing's Men. </p><p>He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at age 49, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, which has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters ashis physical appearance,sexuality,and religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him werewritten by others.</p><p>Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.His early plays were primarilycomediesandhistories, and these are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainlytragediesuntil about 1608, includingHamlet,Othello,King Lear, andMacbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language.In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.</p><p>Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, however,John He MingesandHenry Con dell, two friends and fellow actors of Shakespeare, published a more definitive text known as theFirst Folio, a posthumous collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's.It was prefaced with a poem byBen Jonson, in which Shakespeare is hailed, presciently, as "not of an age, but for all time".In the 20th and 21st centuries, his works have been repeatedly adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular, and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.</p> | |