Yara,
Thanks for the nice topic

Unfortunately, I dislike the personality of Shakespeare
It's because of the huge fans that made him nearly a legend
In fact , I'm 100% convinced that his fame is because that in his time there was a very small number of writers , so the one who works more is the one who will be famous more and that was him
Maybe I'm wrong , but I really don't find that huge number of great ideal works … they are too rare and the writers at this time are exaggerating in the greatness of his works

 
Great Yoyo
can I say something??can we not talk about Shakespeare but discuss what we like in him & what we dislike
If you like it then we discuss Shakespeare
you may get bored of him but we cannot ignore that he is a great writer in the English point of view & we study English so we have to like him
As for me ,to some extent,I like him....Certain lines in his works became proverbs...and we have to remember that he was not educated...So, I think that he made an accomplishment...some of his works are great just like Hamlet
but some of them are...toooooooooooooo silly just like As You Like It
I feel interested when we study one of his nice works

 
Yara,
Thanx for ur brilliant idea
In addition to what you mentioned above .... When he was 18, he married Anne Hathaway , who was 8 years his senior. They had three children ; Susanna and the twins Hamnet and Judith. Shakespeare didn't publish his plays . In 1623 , seven years after Sh's death , two former actors and friend's of Shakespeare's, Heminge and Condell, decided to publish the first collection of his plays.

Shakespeare's plays are divided into 4 periods :
1st period : 1590- 1595 . It was a period of learning and experiementation . Romeo and Juliet
2nd period : from 1596 to the turn of the century , he focused on chronical plays and comedies . The Merchant of Venice
3rd period : 1600 - 1608 He wrote his great tragedies . Hamlet , King Lear , Othello
4th period 1609 - 1612 . The Tempest

Shakespeare's ability to engage the audience's attention has remained great to the present day

 
Yara,
Thanks dear Yara for this topic...
As for me, I like to read Shakespeare's works beacause he is not educated so his works will be different from the others some how...
But I do not prefer any writer to another because I care about the work more than the writer...
Any way,I will participate in this topic soon because it is nice to know some information about the writers...

 
فارس,
of course everyone has his own point of view and i do respect al of these opinions,but let's think of Shakespeare's importance
i like him not for his personality,but for his great achievements

first of all he was not educated as Tami and Raghad said

second, we know that he used a poetic language using puns...and we
know how difficult to do that

third , the plots of his plays are so hard to make and easy to understand

forth, if we compare him to any other writer of that period like Marlowe, we'll find a huge difference in the themes,the language,and the plots

i really like to read for Shakespeare