Concetti Chiave
- Shakespeare's biography is filled with uncertainties, but his plays reflect his evolving thoughts and life experiences.
- His early phase (1590-1595) was an apprenticeship period where he experimented with chronicle plays, farce, and comedy.
- During this phase, he produced notable works like "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet," blending themes of love, death, and fate.
- The second phase (1596-1600) saw mastery in character portrayal and an exploration of the diverse world of commoners in his chronicle plays.
- Shakespeare's comedies from this period are characterized by experimentation, blending various traditions, and showcasing extraordinary verbal beauty.
We don't know much about the man whose name is perhaps the greatest in the history of literature; no other biography is so of "seems", "probably", "must have", but it is commonly agreed that his plays reveal the evolution in his thought and life experience.
He started in the tradition of the popular drama, which took into account the influence of Seneca and of the English medieval plays, and he gave it back to the world transfigured.
The first, from around the year 1590 to 1595, is the phase of his apprenticeship, when he needed to test his powers.
The second phase , covering the years between1596 and the end of the century, is dominated by the chronicle play and the comedy. The chronicle plays written in this period show great mastery in character delineation and at the same time the scope widens to the investigation of the variegated world of commoners which formed the nation itself. The great comic character of Sir John Falstaff appears in the two parts of King Henry IV.
The best of the comedies were written in this period. Each of them is a new experiment, as if Shakespeare wanted to touch different traditions from the Roman comedy to the pastoral, from the court comedy to the farce. The pains and pleasures of love, disguise (which becomes a kind of mask), the fooling of humourless and egoistical people, the blending of dramatic and comic episodes, together with the extraordinary verbal beauty, give these plays a sure hold of the stage and render them unsurpassed.
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Qué revela la evolución de las obras de Shakespeare sobre su pensamiento y experiencia de vida?
- ¿Cómo se caracteriza la primera fase de la carrera de Shakespeare?
- ¿Qué distingue la segunda fase de las obras de Shakespeare?
Se considera comúnmente que las obras de Shakespeare revelan la evolución en su pensamiento y experiencia de vida, mostrando cómo sus escritos reflejan su desarrollo personal y profesional.
La primera fase, desde alrededor de 1590 hasta 1595, es su etapa de aprendizaje, donde experimentó con el drama crónico, la farsa y la comedia, incluyendo obras como "A Midsummer Night's Dream" y "Romeo and Juliet".
La segunda fase, entre 1596 y el final del siglo, se caracteriza por el dominio del drama crónico y la comedia, con un enfoque en la delineación de personajes y la exploración del mundo variado de los plebeyos, destacando personajes como Sir John Falstaff.
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