Shakespeare Influence Essay

One of the greatest branches of art is acting in theater and plays, one of the greatest writers that has passed through the world is william shakespear, a writer with british origins. He wrote tragedies, comeddies and history plays. Many of his plays still remain and are acted every day like a famous one romeo and Juliet, and also have affected the literature today. Shakespeare is famous for his great creativity and over 50 plays.

Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 54 sonnets from which the queen Elizabeth helped him with, because during the time the queen liked a lot Shakespeares writing. She gave him ideas, characters and other things to make his writing for her. He wrote tragedies, comedies and history plays. The Comedies were known because of the happy endings, his tragedies were about the were about everything except the Royal Family and comedies and last the history was about the Royal Family during the Elizabethan Era. Shakespeare’s writing affected the literature today in many ways.

In his sonnets and poems he used 17,677 words. When William Shakespeare couldn’t find a word to describe what he was thinking about, he invented the word. He invented over 1,700! In his invented words, they include assassination, bloody, critic, lonely etc. He also invented many daily used phrases such as, catch a cold, break the ice, long-haired, naked truth etc. Thanks to the greatest writer of all times, if I may say so, we use much more words and phrases, and imagine, how would we describe some events or places without his inventions? Thanks William.

He is still considered one of the greatest writers of all time. He was able to write so many plays and all of them had a unique touch that you would enjoy again and again even if it was a very similar story. His writing style was fascinating and everybody could enjoy their taste by choosing from his three main categories in which he wrote. Shakespeare did a great division for theater today. He took a step ahead of us and showed us how its supposed to be done, for whom and when, we owe him.