So it also has a bit of his personal life, as it can be said that very little is known about the personal life of William Shakespeare. ... Renaissance man conceives life as a stage to be enjoyed before death comes. ... In personal life of William Shakespeare is worth mentioning that the age of seventeen, made ​​his first quatrain that night met at a youth meeting to Anne Hathaway who was eight years older than him, he would marry soon after. ... After this William Shakespeare began writing his works. ... In 1602 he wrote a good beginning Ends Well, Troilus and grown and Hamlet. ...

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Another theory concerning the age of the author is found in the quality of the poetry printed after 1604. ... Some examples of this are Hamlet, which was taken from the French Histoires Tragiques; the French dialogue contained in Henry V; Othello, which was based on the 3 Italian Hecatommithi; and both The Rape of Lucrece and The Comedy of Errors had not been translated into English at this point in time (50). ... Interestingly enough, she never asked to see her father's manuscript after his death. ... There is a record that states that William Shakspere bought New Place, the second ...

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Moreover, in the view of the majority of critics, the play charts the growth of Lear's wisdom, as he learns the emptiness of worldly glory and comes to embrace the love of his daughter Cordelia as the one true value in his life. ... This reading of King Lear makes it an edifying play, but it drains it of its tragic power by oversimplifying Shakespeare's understanding of the complexities of political life. ... Above all, many critics undermine the standing of King Lear as a tragic figure by suggesting that with a little more wisdom, he could have avoided the catastrophes in his life....

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