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SHAKESPEARE AND HIS ENGLAND

Autor : Andrijana Janković , uĉenica VII razreda osnovne škole

Abstract :

Shakespeare‟s biography, including important historical facts of the time. Important periods of
Shakespeare‟s life . The list of his works . His contribution.

Keywords : Bard , childhood , marriage , language , theatre , works .

Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 , at the age of twenty – five, six years before
the birth of the man whom we regard as the subject of this paper. The England of the young Elizabeth was
poor in money . She was an intellectual , musician , poet , a great lover of place , hunting and dancing . She
was too clever to marry and she used her spinsterhood as a bait and as a weapon . She died in her bed almost
forty – five years after her accession . In her reign , England became a maritime power. England has once been
on the edge of the world. Now America was discovered and colonized and England was in the middle of it.
The language of the time was not fixed and elegant but it was rich and ready for any adventurers that would
make it richer.
William Shakespeare, `The Bard of Avon', English poet and playwright wrote the famous 154 Sonnets and
numerous highly successful often quoted dramatic works including the tragedy of the Prince of Denmark,
Hamlet;

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!"
--Lord Polonius, Hamlet Act I, Scene 3

Over the centuries there has been much speculation considering various aspects of Shakespeare's life including
his religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sources for collaborations, authorship of and chronology of the plays
and sonnets.