Shakespeare had a fantastic imagination and was a great storyteller. His thirty-seven plays are about:
honour go dnes TRUST ambition regret remorse violence
feuds murder
His tragedies are about calamity and the downfal of people who once were heroes.
His comedies are about love and celebration.
His stories still speak to us because they are true to human nature.
He had a great understanding of what it is to be human. Some characters are
go d and NOBLE, others are cunning and
writer before him understood people the way he did. He got inside the mind of a character. He gave us words and expressions to speak all our feelings.
evil. No
love Hate disappointment hap ines despair fear anger
sorrow grief hope guilt REGRET shame He understood family relationships, love and friendship.
He knew that people are sometimes loyal and sometimes betray the trust of those they love.
He created about 1,300 characters. His GLOBE THEATRE often had an audience of 3,000 people.
Nobody says the things we need to say better than he did. The people of
Shakespeare’s London loved theatre! Other
popular entertainments were bear-baiting, football (rough and unlawful) and fencing
matches, where highly trained swordsmen displayed the latest spectacular fencing moves.
384 FIRE & ICE 2 jealousy greed more! and
His histories tel stories of war, power and politics.
The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 film and TV versions of Shakespeare’s plays. He is the world’s most filmed writer because his characters and stories are so good.
