Curtain rises: Shakespeare
The reasons for the financial success of one of the greatest writers of all times.
No superlative today is good enough to describe the phenomenon of Shakespeare. In England, in Germany, in Africa, in the Far East, in the USA, in Australia - everywhere where English is spoken, one adores Shakespeare. He seems to be like a God - a God amongst writers. Sometimes, even when he was alive, the entire city of London talked for weeks only about his plays. His words turned into sentences, his sentences into philosophy, his philosophy was quoted in the ranks of high politics.
But even Shakespeare started as poor as a church mouse.
So the real important question is: HOW did he accomplish his incomparable success? WHAT was his secret?
In the following report you can take a look behind the curtain. You will know
○ How Shakespeare climbed one rung after the other on the ladder of success
○ What the difference was between him and other writers
○ What the most important point was - the key to his unbelievable success
○ How Shakespeare treated the language and how he expanded his word power
○ Which exact techniques and methods the greatest of all theater geniuses used to get on the top of the world.
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Shakespeare! The superlatives that can be found to describe Shakespeare would make the gods wilt with envy. Some say that Homer was the greatest poet. His Iliad and his Odyssey are read even today, and we can say that he founded an entire religion. The enormity of that is something to ponder. Virgil, for his part, is generally accepted as the greatest Roman poet. He wrote the Aeneid and created a national epic, which gave the world of antiquity a new dimension. Dante, whose watershed contribution to literature was the Divine Comedy, was celebrated in the thirteenth century as the greatest poet of the Middle Ages. He managed to portray heaven, hell, and purgatory with such clarity that his work became the definitive device for the population to understand these complicated ecclesiastical concepts. Johann Wolfgang Goethe is unquestionably the greatest German poet, but it is Shakespeare who is honored in England, in Africa, in the Far East, in the United States, in Australia, and throughout the entire English speaking world. One could say that the honor attributed to this great poet reaches the level of adulation. Even in his own lifetime, Shakespeare enjoyed unsurpassed renown. His theatrical works were performed before the king, and the whole of London talked sometimes for weeks on end about his plays. He was quoted in the streets as well as in the mansions of the aristocracy. His words inspired the imagination; his sentiments stoked the fires of philosophy; and his axioms even found their way into political debate. There is no doubt that he belonged to the leading authors of his time and has remained a prince of poetry up to this day. When, in 1623, the first volume of plays was printed, the public purchased the entire stock. Today, these first volumes are rare collectors’ items, selling for millions of dollars.
Milton, his great colleague, spoke of Shakespeare in hushed tones as our “precious Shakespeare,” and among the generations of writers who followed him, there were poets who vied with each other to accord him the most fitting praise. Of these, we can speak of Pope, Coleridge and Hazlitt, who were all full of praise for the bard.
Indeed, the greatest names in English literature were generous in their praise for him, and even France, a country generally unwilling to accord praise elsewhere, acknowledged his genius through the work of Voltaire, Madame de Staël, and Guizot.
East of the Rhine, the great bard was treated with even greater respect. Germany once experienced an enormous movement. The greatest of the great (Lessing, Schlegel, Herder, Tieck, and Goethe) outdid their English counterparts in their veneration, so beloved, respected and honored was Shakespeare in Germany.
Shakespeare flourishes in the modern movie industry. Many of his plays have been adapted for the screen. At one end of the spectrum, the old English dialogue is unaltered, and the scenes have been placed exactly as in his original writing. The other end of the continuum will be an adaptation of his work into the modern scene, such as Ten Things I Hate about You, an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, for today’s teen audience. At other points along the continuum one can find devices ranging from a gay Hamlet to Richard III set in close combat of World War II.
From South Africa to Hong Kong, from India to the farthest corner of the New World, his verse is lovingly performed on the stage. Love for his work has outlived half a millennium while hundreds of fashionable poets of the time passed into oblivion after tens years or so. There is even an episode of Star Trek that features a production of Hamlet in the twenty-third century. The show itself is replete with Shakespearian quotes, twists, plot lines, references, and character inspirations.
From here we shall analyze Shakespeare in an effort to understand his genius so that we may apply some of his particular brilliance to our workaday world…
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