About William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare

Details about William
Shakespeare’s life are sketchy, mostly mere surmise based upon court or
other clerical records. His parents, John and Mary (Arden), were married
about 1557; she was of the landed gentry, he a yeoman—a glover and
commodities merchant. By 1568, John had risen through the ranks of town
government and held the position of high bailiff, similar to mayor.
William, the eldest son, was born in 1564, probably on April 23, several
days before his baptism on April 26, 1564. That Shakespeare also died
on April 23, 52 years later, may have resulted in the adoption of this
birth date.
William no doubt attended
the local grammar school in Stratford where his parents lived, and would
have studied primarily Latin rhetoric, logic, and literature [Barnet,
viii]. At age 18 (1582), William married Anne Hathaway, a local farmer’s
daughter eight years his senior. Their first daughter (Susanna) was
born six months later (1583), and twins Judith and Hamnet were born in
1585.
Shakespeare’s life can be
divided into three periods: the first 20 years in Stratford, which
include his schooling, early marriage, and fatherhood; the next 25 years
as an actor and playwright in London; and the last five in retirement
back in Stratford where he enjoyed moderate wealth gained from his
theatrical successes. The years linking the first two periods are marked
by a lack of information about Shakespeare, and are often referred to
as the “dark years”; the transition from active work into retirement was
gradual and cannot be precisely dated [Boyce, 587].
John Shakespeare had
suffered financial reverses from William’s teen years until well into
the height of the playwright’s popularity and success. In 1596, John
Shakespeare was granted a coat of arms, almost certainly purchased by
William, who the next year bought a sizable house in Stratford. By the
time of his death, William had substantial properties, both professional
and personal, which he bestowed on his theatrical associates and his
family (primarily his daughter Susanna, having rewritten his will one
month before his death to protect his assets from Judith’s new husband,
Thomas Quiney, who ran afoul of church doctrine and public esteem before
and after the marriage)
Shakespeare probably left
school at 15, which was the norm, and took some sort of job, especially
since this was the period of his father’s financial difficulty.

When, in 1592, the Plague
closed the theaters for about two years, Shakespeare turned to writing
book-length narrative poetry. Most notable were “Venus and Adonis” and
“The Rape of Lucrece,” both of which were dedicated to the Earl of
Southampton, whom scholars accept as Shakespeare’s friend and benefactor
despite a lack of documentation. During this same period, Shakespeare
was writing his sonnets, which are more likely signs of the time’s
fashion rather than actual love poems detailing any particular
relationship. He returned to play writing when theaters reopened in
1594, and published no more poetry. His sonnets were published without
his consent in 1609, shortly before his retirement.
Amid all of his success,
Shakespeare suffered the loss of his only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596
at the age of 11. But Shakespeare’s career continued unabated.
When Queen Elizabeth died
in 1603 and was succeeded by her cousin King James of Scotland, the
Chamberlain’s Men was renamed the King’s Men, and Shakespeare’s
productivity and popularity continued uninterrupted. He invested in
London real estate and, one year away from retirement, purchased a
second theater, the Blackfriars Gatehouse, in partnership with his
fellow actors. His final play was Henry VIII, two years before his death in 1616.

Incredibly, most of
Shakespeare’s plays had never been published in anything except pamphlet
form, and were simply extant as acting scripts stored at the Globe.
Only the efforts of two of Shakespeare’s company, John Heminges and
Henry Condell, preserved his 36 plays (minus Pericles, the
thirty-seventh) [Barnet, xvii] in the First Folio. Heminges and Condell
published the plays, they said, “only to keep the memory of so worthy a
friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare” [Chute, 133]. Theater
scripts were not regarded as literary works of art, but only the basis
for the performance. Plays were a popular form of entertainment for all
layers of society in Shakespeare’s time, which perhaps explains why
Hamlet feels compelled to instruct the traveling Players on the fine
points of acting, urging them not “to split the ears of the
groundlings,” nor “speak no more than is set down for them.”
Present copies of
Shakespeare’s plays have, in some cases, been reconstructed in part from
scripts written down by various members of an acting company who
performed particular roles. Shakespeare’s plays, like those of many of
the actors who also were playwrights, belonged to the acting company.
The performance, rather than the script, was what concerned the author,
for that was how his play would become popular—and how the company, in
which many actors were shareholders, would make money.
William Shakespeare died on
April 23, 1616, and was buried two days later in the chancel of Holy
Trinity Church where he had been baptized exactly 52 years earlier.

وهنا نبذة مختصرة بالعربية

وليام شكسبير

نبذة عنه:
هو أديب وكاتب مسرحي وشاعر إنجليزي ،ولد (تم
تعميده) في 26 أبريل 1564م وتوفي في 23 أبريل 1616م بكنيسة سترت فورد
بآفون ، بانجلترا و يعتبر أعظم أديب في تاريخ انجلترا وتعتبر مسرحيات
وقصائده كلاسيكيات في أقسام الأدب الإنجليزي في جامعات العالم. كما أن
أعماله كانت مسرحاً ومادة للدراسات العليا والنقدية وهناك من قرأ أعمال
شكسبير قراءات ماركسية أو حتى رومانسية ، بالأضافة إلى أن أعماله تم
اقتباسها في الكثير من الأفلام والمسرحيات حول العالم.

سيرته :التحق شكسبير بالمدرسة الابتدائية
بقرية سترت فورد في آفون حيث درس مبادئ اللغات اللاتينية واليونانية
والفرنسية, ومكنته دراسته هذه من التعمق في التاريخ والأدب الكلاسيكي ، ولم
يتمكن شكسبير من إكمال دراسته بسبب الأحوال المادية السيئة لوالده، حيث
اضطر للعمل. تزوج من (آن هاثاواي) وهو في الثامنة عشر التي أنجبت له (
هامنت)-ولد و(جوديث) - بنت. كان يحب التمثيل بالإضافة إلى الشعر مما جعله
ينتقل إلى لندن ، حيث التحق بأشهر الفرق المسرحية كاتباً لمسرحياتها ،ونشر
أول أعماله الشعرية "فينوس وادونيس". ويعتبر من أعظم أدباء عصره تأثر وليم
شكسبير في كتاباته عن عصر الملوك والأساطير وفى موضوعاته عن الخيانة والقتل
والضمائر القاسية.

تأثر شكسبير في كتاباته بما كتبه المؤرخ القديم بلوتارخ.

أهم أعماله :
هاملت 1600-1601 م.
عطيل 1604-1605 م.
الملك لير 1605-1606 م.
ماكبث 1605-1606 م.
تاجر البندقية 1596-1597 م.
روميو وجولييت 1594-1595م.

أعمال ويليام شكسبير الكاملة :التراجيديات:
روميو وجولييت | ماكبث | الملك لير | هاملت | عطيل| تيتوس أندرونيكوس |
يوليوس قيصر | أنطونيو وكليوباترا| كريولانس | ترويلوس وكريسيدا | تيمون
الأثيني
الكوميديات: حلم ليلة صيف | كل شيء بخير
وسينتهي بشكل جيد | كما تحبها| سيمبلين | الحب خسارة للعمل | القياس للقياس
| تاجر البندقية | زوجات ويندسور البهيجات | الكثير مما يمكن فعله بشأن لا
شيء | بيرسيليس، أمير تير | ترويض النمرة | كوميديا الأخطاء | العاصفة |
الليلة الثانية عشرة أو سمها كما تشاء | السيدان الفيرونيان | القريبان
النبيلان | حكاية الشتاء
التاريخيات: الملك جون | ريتشارد الثاني |
هنري الرابع، الجزء الأول | هنري الرابع، الجزء الثاني | هنري الخامس| هنري
السادس، الجزء الثاني| هنري السادس، الجزء الثاني | هنري السادس، الجزء
الثالث | ريتشارد الثالث | هنري الثامن
أشعار وسوناتات: السوناتات | فينوس وأدونيس | إغتصاب لوكيريس | الحاج المغرم | العنقاء والسلحفاة | تذمر حبيب
كتابات شكسبير الضائعة: إدوارد الثالث | سير توماس مور | كاردينيو | عمل الحب رابح

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