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1、Pericles,PrinceofTyreShakespeare,WilliamPublished:1609Type(s):PlaysSource:http://shakespeare.mit.edu/1AboutShakespeare:WilliamShakespeare(baptised26April1564–died23April1616)wasanEnglishpoetandplaywright,widelyregardedasthegreatestwriterintheEnglishlanguageandtheworld'spre-eminentdramatist.Heisof-t
2、encalledEngland'snationalpoetandthe"BardofAvon"(orsimply"TheBard").Hissurvivingworksconsistof38plays,154sonnets,twolongnarrativepoems,andseveralotherpoems.Hisplayshavebeentranslatedintoeverymajorlivinglanguage,andareperformedmoreof-tenthanthoseofanyotherplaywright.ShakespearewasbornandraisedinStrat
3、ford-upon-Avon.Attheageof18hemarriedAnneHathaway,whoborehimthreechildren:Susanna,andtwinsHamnetandJudith.Between1585and1592hebeganasuccessfulcareerinLondonasanact-or,writer,andpartowneroftheplayingcompanytheLordChamberlain'sMen,laterknownastheKing'sMen.HeappearstohaveretiredtoStratfordaround1613,wh
4、erehediedthreeyearslater.Fewre-cordsofShakespeare'sprivatelifesurvive,andtherehasbeenconsider-ablespeculationaboutsuchmattersashissexuality,religiousbeliefs,andwhethertheworksattributedtohimwerewrittenbyothers.Shakespeareproducedmostofhisknownworkbetween1590and1613.Hisearlyplaysweremainlycomediesan
5、dhistories,genresheraisedtothepeakofsophisticationandartistrybytheendofthesixteenthcen-tury.Nexthewrotemainlytragediesuntilabout1608,includingHamlet,KingLear,andMacbeth,consideredsomeofthefinestexamplesintheEnglishlanguage.Inhislastphase,hewrotetragicomedies,alsoknownasromances,andcollaboratedwitho
6、therplaywrights.Manyofhisplayswerepublishedineditionsofvaryingqualityandaccuracyduringhislifetime,andin1623twoofhisformertheatricalcolleaguespublishedtheFirstFolio,acollectededitionofhisdramaticworksthatincludedallbuttwooftheplaysnowrecognisedasShakespeare's.Shakespearewasarespectedpoetandplaywrigh
7、tinhisownday,buthisreputationdidnotrisetoitspresentheightsuntilthenineteenthcentury.TheRo-mantics,inparticular,acclaimedShakespeare'sgenius,andtheVictorianshero-worshippedShakespearewithareverencethatGeorge