Neoplatonism in Shakespeare and its Effect on Modern Literature

The large body of work attributed to William Shakespeare shows education, experience, creativity, and wisdom far beyond what many people are willing to accept came from a single author. Due to the scarcity of facts surrounding Shakespeare’s life, speculation arouse about whether or not he actually wrote his works became more common. In the mid-1800s ideas about other authors were brought forward. However, these theories have little sustenance, and it is likely that the entire body of work attributed to Shakespeare in fact belonged to Shakespeare himself.

Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, all these well-known plays have one characteristic in common. They were all well written by William Shakespeare, or were they? Today many scholars doubt the authorship of William Shakespeare. With this doubt, many other problems about William Shakespeare begin to arise. The question of Shakespeare’s authorship initiates controversy about whether or not William Shakespeare wrote the famous works by “Shakespeare”.

There are few names as commonplace, ubiquitous, and recognizable as that of William Shakespeare. His enchanting story telling, complex plot twists, and brilliant usage of rhetoric make it easy to understand why connoisseurs of the English language are devotees to his style of writing. However, it is his extremely portable themes that endear him to today’s audience – plotlines that resonate with the modern everyday human just as much with someone from the 1600s.

William Shakespeare, a world-renowned playwright, poet, and actor, has been known for centuries all around the world for his great variety of brilliant, poetic, and creative plays written during the Elizabethan Era. Shakespeare’s plays have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and Western literature, traditionally divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy, and comprising of various imaginative settings, plots, characters, and conflicts. They have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being continually performed all around the world. Many of Shakespeare’s plays give insight on human nature, astonishingly able to characterize every emotion, strength, and weakness

Many have heard of William Shakespeare, and many have seen or known his work without even knowing it was his. The playwright, poet, and actor was born April 23,1564. There has been a debate whether him and/or his plays and work are still relevant till this day. Shakespeare has a worldwide impact and his plays and their concept continue to illustrate the problems we are affected by today. Significantly, after first experiencing Shakespeare, many can already notice that he has the potential to speak out various emotions some cannot find words to express and experiences we encounter time to time.

Even after all this time, Shakespeare can still intrigue and excite people and students alike. Everyone says that Shakespeare was the greatest playwright of his time, but most don’t even know why. Those people just take the experts opinion, but even non-experts can think his plays are great. Shakespeare didn’t write these plays just for well-educated people but to be performed for everyone. Shakespeare wrote about topics that were of issues in his days, and through his plays one can see the message he is trying to convey while capturing the complexity of the character’s mind (Tumiel). He wanted his audience think what it would be like if they were that character and to feel the emotions of their hearts, to understand the psychological existence of that person. It is this those captured feelings in his words that makes him one of the greatest

Shakespeare is one of the most famous dramatist and poet in England. His literature works have been translated into more than 80 languages. He is the England's pride, and the world's treasure because he not only helped to shape the English we use today, introducing up to 300 words and dozens of well-known phrases but also wrote plays that are known around the world for their universal themes and insight into the human condition. However historians don’t know his date of birth, where he was educated or how he spent seven years of his life and even the playwright of his play is a mystery.

William Shakespeare became one of the most notorious poets ,playwrights,and dramatists of the 16th century. Having around 37 plays and 154 sonnets place to his name, inevitably leading Shakespeare to become one of the most recognizable names within literature. Shakespeare throughout his many writings kept a distinct style which consisted of repeating plans of how each characters would function and interact with one another to lead to up to an opposing conclusion. Individual plays like Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet demonstrate the connections between the similar actions, characters , and events that take place within different playwrights. However; even though writings like Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet share many plot , events and characters , they’ve gained opposing genres ; one which has been classified as a comedy, while the other a tragedy. Demonstrating the idea that events themselves don’t wholly determine the genre of each playwright but rather the outcomes of these symmetrical events.

William Shakespeare has changed the way that many people have viewed plays and literature throughout his life and is still carrying that legacy to this day. This is most prominent in his famous tragedy, Hamlet, which is still analyzed for its success as a renowned classic. The story is about a prince named Hamlet who meets his Father’s ghost and learns of their murder by his uncle. The story continues by depicting Hamlet’s revenge and his falling into madness. Hamlet illustrates masterful uses of literary devices in the use of euphemisms, imagery, and similes to create an interesting tragedy that changed the outlook on literature as a whole. Shakespeare has indisputable skill in mastery over literary devices that shape themselves into an heart wrenching masterpiece.

Every prodigy has a story to him/her. Shakespeare started a young lad with 7 siblings in a small town to buddies with Queen Elizabeth I. Poets, Authors and playwrights throughout history love and worship his work. Such as John Dryden, who said, “He was the man who of all modern, perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.” or the famous writer T.S. Eliot who said “I do not believe any writer has exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.”.(Malibard) People still admire him today because of his works, but don’t really seem to care for how he got there and that is what i am here to talk about. Shakespeare had a interesting life full of controversy. I'd like to

William Shakespeare introduced the world to the costs of hesitation and overpowering ambition- the fatal flaws that destroyed heroes. In Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedies- ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Macbeth’ even the good characters receive no relief from the complex cruelty of life. Playwrights have always created dramatic, enticing and effective openings to their plays.

I was in the best of settings when I realized that Shakespeare was indeed great. My freshman year in high school, I had English class with an esteemed teacher, Mr. Broza—hailed as the Paul D. Schreiber High School Shakespeare aficionado, founder of Schreiber’s Annual Shakespeare Day, and, perhaps most heart-warming of all, a self-proclaimed Shakespeare lover whose posters of The Bard could be found as wallpaper in his small office. How lucky I thought I was. Indeed, if I wanted to appreciate Hamlet, I was in the right hands.

In my mind, and in the mind of many scholars, it is indisputable that Shakespeare is one of the most prominent writers that have every grazed literature. Samuel Johnson exemplifies the impact Shakespeare has had on readers and writers across the world. In Johnson’s mind, he strongly advocates that Shakespeare is “above all writers.” His craft and style in writing is unparalleled to any other writer due to the manner in which he establishes the characters within the story and their direct influence on the overall meaning of the work as a whole. All of these factors can be best illuminated by the story of King Lear. This piece of literature demonstrates the power Shakespeare had in displaying the “faithful mirror of manners and life.” The story

On April 23, 1564 a writer with an abundance of talent, enthusiasm, and motivation was thought to be born. 400 Years ago, William Shakespeare graced the world and injected his name with others, such as Aristotle, Apollo, and Wolfgang. Works such as Romeo and Juliet, Julius Creaser, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream we can see commendable qualities Shakespeare exhibits. I extol and esteem Shakespeare indefinitely, and though I could never truly compare, I think his passion, creativity, and love for art accurately represents my own. As William Shakespeare maintains, “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness trust upon them.”

In a genre that contradicts a novelist's affluence of narrative explication, the language in its purest form becomes Shakespeare's powerful instrument, wherein he controls it with the unusual combination of force, subtlety, and exactitude”