Shakespeare Complete Works (4)

Author: William Shakespeare
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Publish Date: 1995-11-01
Features: William Shakespeare was a great playwright and poet during the English Renaissance. His works, except for the early poems he wrote, mainly consist of 37 verse plays written in unrhymed verse. The revolutionary leaders Marx and Engels greatly admired Shakespeare's plays. They not only frequently quoted Shakespeare's works and characters in their own writings but also, when discussing theatrical art, fully recognized Shakespeare's position in the history of drama and pointed out his outstanding achievements in realistic creative methods. They proposed the principle of "Shakespeareanization," which means creating characters with distinct personalities not from abstract concepts but from real life, through vivid and rich plots. Shakespeare's works have echoed throughout the world of literature, thought, and philosophy, and their influence no longer belongs to a single era. His works have been passed down as a precious cultural heritage of all humanity and have become one of the important "themes" for later literary creation. This is the fourth volume of our "Complete Works of Shakespeare."