Shakespeare, The Master Dramatist
Shakespeare is undoubtedly one of the world’s greatest playwrights and one of the most remarkable story tellers that the world has ever known. Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies, historical and romantic plays, and sonnets. Each of his plays have become immortal.
In early times, stories were told in verse, because they were recited instead of being written down. Shakespeare wrote his plays for the stage, so he used verse. He was a practical man and spent his entire adult life as an actor, writer and producer of plays. His audience enjoyed his plays so much that they returned to watch them again and again.
His plays have been published in almost every country of the world. His audience was never a single reader, sitting quietly in a chair, but a large group of people waiting excitedly in a theatre. Some of his outstanding plays are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth
Night, A Midsununer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra. Most of his comedies and tragedies come from tales that had already been shown on the stage or were available in bookstores. His historical plays like Richard II and Henry IV are dramatizations of events in the lives of English kings.
There has never been any writer in comparison to Shakespeare in the knowledge of stagecraft. He knew how to keep a story moving. Even today, many Shakespearean companies travel all over the world and perform his plays in schools and colleges.
His works continue to be a source of inspiration and joy to his readers.
