AND WHAT IS IT ABOUT HIM AND HIS WORK THAT DISTINGUISHES HIM FROM THE REST"

In the process that it took to choose the topic, which I was supposed to write about, I had a couple of choices that I could've written about. Maybe Antigonê and Oedipus, or maybe another poet or poem that was discussed in class, but I couldn't think of anything that I could write five pages about or anything that I would enjoy learning and writing about, as much as Shakespeare. I believe that we only covered one of Shakespeare's poems in class, "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?," and I know that I may have read the poem before in high school, maybe like some others in the class, but I believe that everyone knew the poem and they knew Shakespeare wrote it before anyone could look in the book, unlike most of the other poems that we covered. That is one example of how well known his work is over other poets, to where a regular college student would recognize his work over others. I feel that one day I would like to be great, maybe not in poetry and drama, but great in some area of life. I believe that to achieve greatness, it would be in my best interest to learn about great

To me what makes Shakespeare great is the same as what everyone else thinks, I don't have any different feelings than anyone else, because I haven't studied his work and related it to others to find out for myself the true difference between his work and another poet's work, besides the obvious.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) lived and died in England. He was probably a normal person and probably educated at a local grammar school. He was married at eighteen to a twenty-six year old woman. Marring a woman eight years your senior maybe a little awkward now, but maybe not in those days, so he has yet to show any genius-like qualities. He moved to London at the age of twenty-four with a wife and children, and by the time he was twenty-eight, he had attained success as an actor and as a playwright. I think that maybe something happened during that period of his life when he moved to London. He may have been working somewhere in Stratford, Enland and he just decided to take a chance and maybe pursue his dream to write and act or maybe someone gave him the opportunity to do it, or maybe he had no choice and he had to leave. Either way, I believe that opportunity only knocks at your door maybe once or twice in a lifetime. What if William followed what his father did, and worked the family business or anything like that, he never would have had the chance to unleash his writing ability, and the world would be at a loss. I believe that everyone comes to a crossroads, and I know that I have come to about five of them and I'm only twenty-one, where they will have to make a decision that will affect the rest of their lives. Maybe it's a decision to go to college, or to quit high school and work, or to smoke marijuana with your friends for about an hour. Shakespeare's decision to go to London to act and write plays affected his life, and everyone that reads his work.

In encyclopedias and in the book, Shakespeare is noted and recognized more so as a dramatist, more so than a poet or author. Shakespeare's plays embody a deep knowledge about human behavior, reveale

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