FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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A member of the University Wits criticizes William in writing in 1592.
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There are many other writers who stole his work.
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Historians found a letter that Shakespeare wrote from London to his wife.
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His plays were mentioned by the Queen on a number of occasions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -William Shakespeare was heavily influenced by three University Wits which includes Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd and John Lyly. Christopher Marlowe influenced Shakespeare more in the literary drama especially with the choosing of diction in tragedy. Marlowe chose blank verse as a medium for diction in his plays.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare’s reputation as a dramatist and a poet actor is unique and he is considered by many to be the greatest playwright of all time, although many of the facts of his life remain mysterious. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564.
Detailed explanation-3: -The university wits include Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe (all graduates of Cambridge), as well as Thomas Lodge and George Peele (both of Oxford).
Detailed explanation-4: -He mocked at the tragic aspects of human life like hatred, jealousy, vanity, suspiciousness, plotting and the minute temperaments of the people from the society.