Shakespeare

The last lesson, we talked about Shakespeare and his period. He is great actor and playwright. I want to talk about his life , feature of his period, his plays.

Shakespeare was born in Stratford in 1564. He was an actor at the same time play writer. when he was eighteen years old , he got married with a woman who was eight years bigger than him. He was very successful in literature . He gained a lot of vocabulary  to English with  his works . Because of impressions of  Renaissance Period , He reflected human figure dominantly in his works. He created person who has such a lot psychological status , internal strife and compound character . His works affected people indeed. His works are still most translated to other languages. In these times, Although every body  used limited number of character , plays of Shakespeare had more than 35 characters . As women were not equal with man , all players were man.

In his period , Renaissance, people were so dirty , they never took shower. So there were a lot of fatal diseases such as Black death , cholera , malaria and smallpox ... Their house did not have indoor plumping. So they could not find drinking water and some fatal diseases spread  with even water . People did not drink water ; Therefore their popular drink was beer . Although London was very popular , metropolitan , big and wealthy city , It was extremely  dirty .

To sum up , Shakespeare is important person in English literature . His works and characters are interesting . I can not wait to read Romeo and Juliet.