The National Poet Of England William Shakespeare Analysis (Essay Sample)

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Shakespeare Work Analysis
The world of art is one that plays an important role in learning the history of the world in general. There have been many artists who have been instrumental in spearheading the preservation of world’s history as well as providing a fictitious world of the unrecorded world events. William Shakespeare is one of the greatest artisans who has shaped the world of art with his poetry and plays that are still widely recognized and used even in the current era. William Shakespeare was born in the United Kingdom in 1564 and sadly passed in 1616. However, during William’s life, he managed to win the affection of the UK with his poetry. William Shakespeare was regarded as the national poet of England.
William Shakespeare wrote many poems and plays which amongst them include Othello, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear. The contents of Williams work to a great extent pleased most people but failed to displease some people. For example Shakespeare’s Richard II according to Queen Elizabeth the unsuccessful revolt against the Queen may have been brought about by some scenes in the play especially ones that showed Richard being deposed (Friedman, William & Elizabeth).
The works of Shakespeare faced a lot of criticism especially during the 17th and the 18th century. For example, in the work called “Of Dramatick Poesie” by John Dryden, he felt that Shakespeare works were motivated by personal love experiences which he felt that were naïve and misleading to the readers. Dryden felt that most plays that were written by Shakespeare were full of imagination but lacked a judgment of the reality which existed in the 17th century.
In 1725 Alexander pope to it upon himself to edit Shakespeare stating that the language used was of indecent nature and contained phrases that were infectious in nature. 17 1765, Samuelson Johnson also edited Shakespeare's works because he viewed that most of his works contained of ideas that were of ancient nature and did not match with the readers' current situation which is the 18th-century world views. Additionally, Samuelson felt that Shakespeare had a way of using shortcut when it came to plotting events in his works.
However, in the 19th century, many critics begun to appreciate the works of Shakespeare rather than oppose his works. Most of those critics who praised Shakespeare works were romantic critics. In the early 19th century, Samuel Coleridge stated that Shakespeare's works deserved to be accredited, accepted and appreciated as he regarded then to be artistically engineered. In Germany, Shakespeare’s works were termed to be one of a kind. Goethe termed Shakespeare as a man who was mystical in nature and had seer abilities due to his artis...