World Famous Writer: Shakespeare

Author: Zheng Chunxing (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: William Shakespeare is hailed as the "highest paragon of the world's romantic poets" and the "unreachable master of drama." His tragedies can rival those of ancient Greek Euripides and Sophocles, while his plays can hold their own against ancient Greek Aristophanes and Terence. The great German poet Goethe said, "I read his page, and it belonged to him my whole life. I finished reading his volume, and I was like a newly born blind person, whose strange hand instantly made my eyes see the light." Not only Goethe but also Hugo, Stendhal, Shelley, Voltaire, Schiller, Balzac, Dickens, Pushkin, and Turgenev poured endless praise upon him and left his influence in their works to varying degrees. Moreover, almost all great composers, such as Beethoven, Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mendelssohn, and Rossini, have created musical works based on his plays. Even Marx often quoted lines from his works in his research on social sciences. He left the world 37 plays, along with two long poems and a collection of sonnets—truly an inexhaustible treasure of world literature. Yes, "Shakespeare is the end of all novels," because "he does not belong to one age but to all ages."