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Lecture 9
The Theme: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(1564–1616)
The Plan

1. 
   The life of Shakespeare.
   
2. 
   Shakespeare’s Plays.
   
3. 
   Shakespeare’s theatre.
   
4. 
   “Twelfth Nighth”.
   
5. 
   Shakespeare’s Histories.
   
6. 
   The third period.
   
7. 
   “Hamlet”.
   
8. 
   “King Lear”.
   
9. 
   The power of money as seen in Shakespeare’s work.
   
10. 
    The sonnets.
    
11. 
    Shakespeare’s attitude to the people.
    

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616)
The English Renaissance gave birth to an amazing galaxy of great writers, but William Shakespeare outshines them all. He had a greater influence on the development of the whole of world literature than any other author. Characters created by him remain perfect depictions of the principal human passions and psychological traits.
But Shakespeare was not just a painter of abstract passions independent of space and time, as many bourgeois scholars try to show him. His unsurpassed portrayals of human nature come as a result of his profound insight into the most important social and philosophical problems of the period. With due apologies to the great Ben Jonson, we may say that Shakespeare was "for all time" because he was very much "of an age", of his own age.
The age knew many brilliant men; Shakespeare was a marvellous poet, but not the only one; a great dramatist, but not the only one; he was a learned man, but many of his contemporaries surpassed him in learning.
What, then, makes him the greatest of the great? In the first place, a harmonious combination of all these qualities; in the second place, their being united in a truly colossal intellect, capable of penetrating into the very core of things. A great poet, an unsurpassed dramatist, an unrivalled psychologist, he was also philosopher of the first magnitude.
It is utterly impossible to characterize every aspect of his genius in a brief chapter. We shall try to point out only the most outstanding.