Love is Blind
"Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit…"
- William Shakespeare
26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
- William Shakespeare
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| William Shakespeare |
26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare
was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he
married Anne
Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he
began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of
a playing company called
the Lord Chamberlain's
Men, later known as the King's Men.
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 as his physical
appearance, sexuality, religious
beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by
others.
Shakespeare
produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.[6][nb 4] His early plays
were primarily comedies and histories,
which are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He
then wrote mainly tragedies until
about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest
works in the English language.[2] In his last phase, he
wrote tragicomedies, also
known as romances,
and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many
of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during
his lifetime. In 1623, however, John Heminges and Henry Condell, two friends and fellow actors
of Shakespeare, published a more definitive text known as the First 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 by Ben 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.
Love is Blind
Reviewed by CyberSpace2Day
on
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Rating: 5
Reviewed by CyberSpace2Day
on
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Rating: 5
