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William Shakespeare 's Works Of Shakespeare

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Before I start right off in this essay, I believe it 's only fair you should know a little back story of the author himself; William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born April 26, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, which is located in the United Kingdom. Even though his goals were to become an actor, he fell into writing and become one of the most well-known writers in his life. There 's a lot of controversy surrounding Shakespeare and there 's many people who believe that he, himself did not write his famous plays, sonnets, and poems. In his lifetime, Shakespeare wrote thirty-seven plays, five long poems, and one-hundred-fifty-four sonnets. So as you can see, he was a busy man. Besides writing Shakespeare owned part of the Globe Theatre, acted in and directed plays, and did many more things with his life. During his life, he was just grouped as one of the many playwrights of his time and his plays weren 't held with such respect and astonishment as they are now-a-days. Shakespeare passed away three days before his birthday on April 23, 1616. He is gone but he will always be remembered.

To me, Shakespeare 's Othello seems different from his other work. Although it is considered to be one of Shakespeare 's four main tragedies, in Othello, there is evident signs of racism (stemming from Iago mostly) that I haven 't picked up in his other works I 've read. Othello is the main character in this story and the villain is Iago who has an evil plan that all leads up to the main twist. Iago

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