Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic of uzbekistan termez state university department of english language and literature



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The subject matter of course book is to learn the life and stories, tragedies, comedies of William Shakespeare and the description of truth in his works.
The novelty of the work is to learn and find out the full description of truth and issue in William Shakespeare’s works, differentiating them and comparing William Shakespeare’s works with other authors’ works who were the member of Renaissance.
The aim of the course paper is to comprehend and learn what is tragedy, to determine its role in literature and to show the importance of it in the end.
In order to achieve the aim of this work we set up several tasks:

  1. To show the importance of William Shakespeare’s works ad plays

  2. To study the history of Renaissance

  3. To study and learn the life of William Shakespeare

  4. To analyze the truth and issue in author’s works

The structure of the course paper. This course paper consists of introduction, two chapters, conclusion and list of used literature.

CHAPTER I. William Shakespeare is an English national poet

    1. William Shakespeare’s way of life

William Shakespeare, also spelled Shakspere, byname Bard of Avon or Swan of Avon, English author, dramatist, and actor who baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England—died April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, is generally regarded as the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare holds a special place in world literature. Other poets and novelists, such as Homer and Dante, and poets and novelists, such as Leo Tolstoy and Charles Dickens, have transcended national borders, but no living writer's reputation can compare to Shakespeare's, whose plays, written for a small repertory theatre in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, are now performed and read more regularly. Shakespeare fulfilled the prophecy of his great contemporary, poet and dramatist Ben Jonson, that he "was not of a generation, but for all time." It may be bold to try to define his greatness, but it is not so difficult to identify the abilities that helped him to construct creative visions of pathos and mirth that, whether read or experienced in the theater, fill the mind and heart. It may be audacious to try to define his greatness, but it is not so difficult to explain the abilities that helped him to construct creative images of pathos and mirth that, whether read or seen in the theater, fill the mind and stay there. He is a poet with a great deal of intellectual quickness, perceptiveness, and poetic strength. Other authors possessed these qualities, but Shakespeare's keen mind was directed toward human beings and their full spectrum of emotions and conflicts, rather than abstract or distant subjects. Other authors have used their sharp minds in this way, but Shakespeare is astonishingly gifted with words and pictures, so that his mental energy finds complete and unforgettable expression in intelligible human circumstances, compelling and imaginatively stimulating. As if that wasn't enough, the art form into which he channeled his artistic energies was not distant and bookish, but rather included the vibrant stage impersonation of human beings, eliciting sympathy and encouraging vicarious involvement. As a result, Shakespeare's merits will withstand translation into other languages and cultures outside of Elizabethan England. He was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, according to the parish register; his birthday is celebrated on April 23. His father, John Shakespeare, was a borough burgess who was elected alderman in 1565 and bailiff in 1568. The position corresponding to mayor, before the grant of a further charter to Stratford in 1664. He was involved in a variety of trades and seems to have seen some financial ups and downs. Mary Arden of Wilmcote, Warwickshire, was the heiress to some land and came from an ancient family. Given the 16th century's very rigid social distinctions, John Shakespeare's marriage must have been a step up the social scale. Stratford had a decent grammar school, and the college was free because the schoolmaster's salary was paid by the borough. There are no records of the students who attended the school in the 16th century, but it would be absurd to assume that the town bailiff did not send his son there. The boy's education would primarily consist of Latin studies, which would include learning to read, compose, and speak the language fluently as well as studying Classical historians, moralists, and poets. Shakespeare did not continue his education at university, and it is unlikely that the academic round of logic, rhetoric, and other research that would have followed would have piqued his interest. Instead, he married at the age of 18. Although the precise location and date are unknown, the episcopal register at Worcester retains a bond dated November 28, 1582, and executed by two yeomen of Stratford, called Sandells and Richardson, as a protection to the bishop for the issue of a license for the marriage of William Shakespeare and “Anne Hathaway of Stratford,” upon the consent of her friends and upon once as a married woman. The next date of interest is found in the Stratford church records, where William Shakespeare's daughter Susanna was baptized on May 26, 1583. Hamlet and Judith, sisters, were baptized on February 2, 1585. Shakespeare's whereabouts for the next eight years or so, until his name appears in London theatre documents, are unknown. There are legends about him stealing deer and getting into trouble with a local magnate, Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, near Stratford; making a living as a country schoolmaster; and moving to London and breaking into the world of the theatre. Shakespeare was also rumored to have spent time as a member of a great household and as a soldier, possibly in the Low Countries. Such extrapolations about Shakespeare's life have often been made from the internal "truth" of his writings in the absence of external evidence. This approach, however, is unsatisfactory: one cannot infer, for example, that Shakespeare was a lawyer based on his allusions to the law, since he was simply a writer who could easily obtain whatever expertise he required for the composition of his plays. In 1592, a fellow dramatist, Robert Greene, declared in a pamphlet written on his deathbed, "The first reference to Shakespeare in the literary world of London comes in 1592, when a fellow dramatist, Robert Greene, declared in a pamphlet written on his deathbed: It's difficult to say what these words mean, but they're obviously insulting, and Shakespeare is clearly the target of the sarcasms. A mutual acquaintance wrote a preface to the book in which they appear Greenes, groats-worth of witted, bought with a million of Repentance, 1592 after Greene's death, offering an apology to Shakespeare and attesting to his worth. This preface also reveals that Shakespeare was making important friends at the time. Since, despite the fact that the puritanical city of London was typically hostile to the theatre, many members of the aristocracy were enthusiastic supporters of the drama and friends of the actors. Shakespeare seems to have piqued the interest of young Henry Wriothesley, the 3rd Earl of Southampton, and his first published poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, were dedicated to him. The fact that John Shakespeare was given a coat of arms in 1596 is one striking piece of evidence that Shakespeare started to prosper early and attempted to restore the family's fortunes and establish its gentility. The College of Arms in London has rough drafts of this grant, but the final text, which must have been given to the Shakespeares, has not survived. William almost definitely took the initiative and paid the fees. The coat of arms can be found on Shakespeare's monument in the Stratford church which built before 1623. Shakespeare's purchase in 1597 of New Place, a large house in Stratford, which he must have passed every day on his way to school, is equally fascinating as proof of his worldly achievement. It's uncertain when his career in the theatre started, but he was a key member of the Lord Chamberlain's company of players which dubbed the King's Men after James I's accession in 1603 from around 1594 onward. They had the best actor, Richard Burbage; they had the best theater, the Globe completed in the autumn of 1599; and they had Shakespeare, the best dramatist. It's no surprise that the business thrived. Shakespeare became a full-time working man in his own theater, participating in a joint enterprise and being personally invested in the financial success of the plays he produced. Regrettably, written documents provide no insight into how Shakespeare's working life shaped his magnificent artistry. All that can be deduced is that Shakespeare dedicated himself assiduously to his craft for 20 years, composing more than a million words of high-quality poetic drama. Apart from walking at King James I's coronation in 1604 dressed in the royal livery as a member of the King's Men, Shakespeare had no interaction with officialdom. He managed to take care of his financial affairs. He purchased properties in both London and Stratford. He bought a quarter of the Stratford tithes in 1605, which explains why he was finally buried in the churchyard. For a time, he stayed with the Mountjoy family, a French Huguenot family who lived near St. Olave's Church in Cripplegate, London. Shakespeare is described as providing evidence in a friendly manner though unable to recall some crucial details that would have determined the case and as being generally interested in the Mountjoy family's acrimony in the records of a lawsuit filed in May 1612, arising from a Mount joy family quarrel. Although no letters written by Shakespeare have survived, a private letter to him was accidentally mixed up with some official Stratford business and was preserved in the borough archives. It was written by Richard Quiney and addressed to him from the Bell Inn in Carter Lane, London, where he had gone on business after leaving Stratford. “To my loving good friend and countryman, Mr. Wm. Shakespeare, send these,” is written on one side of the page. Quiney apparently saw his fellow Stratfordian as someone to whom he could apply for a £30 loan—a considerable amount in Elizabethan times. Nothing more is known about the transaction, but since there are so few ways to see into Shakespeare's personal life, this begging letter becomes a moving text. Furthermore, it's worth noting that Quiney's son Thomas married Judith, Shakespeare's second daughter, 18 years later. The will of Shakespeare which was written on March 25, 1616 is a lengthy and comprehensive book. It entailed him entrusting his substantial estate to the male heirs of his elder daughter, Susanna. At the time, both of his daughters were married, one to the aforementioned Thomas Quiney and the other to John Hall, a well-known Stratford physician. He bequeathed his "second-best bed" to his wife as an afterthought; no one knows what this infamous legacy means. The signatures on the will appear to be written in a shaky hand. Shakespeare may have been sick then. On April 23, 1616, he died. His gravestone in the Stratford-upon-Avon parish church's chancel bore no inscription. Instead, these lines, which may or may not be his own, appeared:

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