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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Shakespeare is still considered the greatest writer of the English language. He was able to capture the human emotion and that is why his works have stood the test of time when many others have been forgotten. He has create passages and works that almost everyone in the world can recognize even if they don’t know Shakespeare very well because he is that well known. William Shakespeares works: Scholars distinguish three periods in William Shakespeares works. The first period (roughly from 1590 to 1594), during which he wrote mainly gay comedies and dramatic histories. This is the period of optimism of William Shakespeare. The middle period (roughly from 1600 to 1608), during which he wrote great tragedies and bitter comedies. This is the period of maturity of William Shakespeare. The late period (roughly from 1609 to 1612), during which he wrote legendary and lyrical plays, and tragic comedies. Tragedies Shakespeare wrote eleven tragedies b

English Poetry

A Lovers Complaint by William Shakespeare FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this double voice accorded, And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale; Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale, Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain, Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain. Upon her head a platted hive of straw, Which fortified her visage from the sun, Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw The carcass of beauty spent and done: Time had not scythed all that youth begun, Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven's fell rage, Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age. Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne, Which on it had conceited characters, Laundering the silken figures in the brine That season'd woe had pelleted in tears, And often reading what contents it bears; As often shrieking undistinguish'd woe, In clamours of all size, both high and low. Sometimes her le