William Shakespeare

The middle ages were a period where reigned creativity and originality of style. We can still recognize its distinguished print that still amazes everyone and since it was an age where appeared many famous figures and works of art from Dante’s divine comedy to Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa to Michelangelo’s sculptures came as a wrap up almost at the beginning of the Renaissance the well-known William Shakespeare. So, what made our dear playwright have his name travel throughout history?

Shakespeare was and still is the one who defines the English literature and marks its bookshelves. He not only made proof of virtuous imagination but also bedazzled us with his linguistic creativity and innovation; he came out as the shining star of the 14th century his plays created a sensation everywhere. Yet beauty of style wasn’t the only thing that made him stand out, he treated in several of his plays some cases implicitly and through mysterious characters that leaves readers and those who watch his plays intrigued and confused in the same time. During the earlier times his plays weren’t taken to mean by what Shakespeare intended them to mean but by what the interpreters wished them to mean and the appreciation was mainly estheticand only now did they search in their original meaning, we find that he took great care of ethics and morals in his plays where he poses the problem of conscience considering it to be the guiding factor in a man’s actions, being influenced by the Elizabethan psychology and philosophy conscience was very present in the characters he created influencing the actions and the development in his plays. He carefully worked out a moral system in which good and evil are rightly related and evaluated. We can notice this again and again in both tragedy and comedy And as the Elizabethan philosophy sees a man of virtue a man who overcomes temptations and who is in control of his impulses we can relate to the sudden change of mood in Shakespeare’s characters So basically his plays were a moral satire of society. Finally, we can say that until now we still thank Shakespeare for the artist he was and owe him a great deal of gratitude.