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Shakespeare’s Works James Kang 9E

Greetings, my old fellows. If thou hast read my magnificent works of such great characters and emotions, thou must know me as the great William Shakespeare. I, Shakespeare, is the grand master of literature and plays. My dear works and sonnets are made up of the perfect combination of my own special writing technique and beautiful rhyme. During my career as a playwright in the Globe Theatre, I wrote thirty-eight plays and 154 sonnets with my own hands. Writing, whether it is a long play or a 14-lined sonnet, has been my desire and passion for all these years. In the beginning of my years, I had my basis of construction based on Roman and medieval drama. I personally present Marlowe with some credits since he gave the inspiration for writing my plays in the beginning of my career like The Comedy of Errors. After a while, I entered my second era of my life, where I started writing histories more often. Audiences were entertained to their fullest when seeing the lives of kings and queens. Other than histories, which some audiences were quite bored of, I wrote some comedies dealing with love like the Midsummer Night's Dream. They laughed quite hard when they saw Titania, beautiful queen of the fairies, fall in love with an ass-headed human. Comedy seemed like a child's play to me. I wanted to write plays that show different emotions of different characters, and fully express the grief and misery of people in different social status. Thus, I commenced to write more tragedies. Soon enough, my tragedies became my 'signature writing'. I wrote King Lear and Hamlet, two splendid masterpieces by me, Shakespeare. King Lear and Hamlet both assured me money and fame in London. These tragedies marked the third period of life. After such mournful tragedies, I wrote romantics plays; romantic plays with such beautiful lyrics and different symbols of the world. What if such romantic and lyrical plays could be put into a shorter writing. A crazed writing style in London at that time, sonnets captured my attention. Ten syllabus for fourteen lines seemed too diminutive compared to my usual plays. However, it was long enough to express my ideas of love, freedom, and life. Furthermore, the Plague hit London, meaning the Globe Theatre closed down. Thus, I had to make my own living and the solution was the sonnets. I wrote dozens of sonnets and presented to the outer world. As soon as my sonnets hit London, London was fascinated to their deepest with my sonnets; they tried to analyze the poem; they tried to find my ideas and thoughts in those short poems. Those sonnets did really fill up my pockets and reputations to the full extent. Oh- how much I was delighted when audiences and spectators cry pitifully or laugh wholeheartedly during the plays. My life was full of excitement and adventure. Although a job of playwright doesn't seem appealing, I embarked on a journey into the world of literature, where there are so many things to learn, think, and write. It is a heaven of literary devices and words. All I wish now, as my career as a playwright seems to close its heavy read curtains, is that thou and others will enjoy my masterpieces even after many decades and centuries after my death. I wait peacefully for my death because "there are more things in heaven".

Citations/Bibliography: Pressley, J.M. Shakespeare's Works. June 23, 2009. Shakespeare Resource Center. 

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