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Questions and Tasks: 
1. Characterize the period of Renaissance on the whole. 
2. What English writers and poets lived and created their works during the Renaissance? 
3. Who introduced the essay form into English literature? 
4. What literary forms did the representatives of the Renaissance in England prefer, poetry or 
prose? 
5. What kind of a poem is a sonnet? 
6. Who were masters of sonnet writing in English literature? 

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4-Mavzu. 
Lyrics and comedies of William Shakespeare 
A poet and playwright William Shakespeare is the favorite author of millions of readers all over 
the world. No other writer’s plays have been produced so often and read so widely in so many 
different countries. He had a greater influence on the world literature than any other author. 
William Shakespeare was born in 1564, on April 23 in 
Stratford-on-Avon, in England. His father, John Shakespeare, was a 
prosperous glove maker of Stratford who, after holding miner 
municipal offices, was elected high bailiff (the equivalent of mayor) 
of Stratford. Shakespeare’s mother, Mary Arden, came from a 
family of landowners. 
In his childhood Shakespeare attended the Stratford Grammar 
School. 
Shakespeare’s contemporaries first admired him for his long 
narrative poems “Venus and Adonis” (1593) and “The Rape of 
Lucrece” (1594).
In 1599 the best-known of Elizabethan theatres, the Globe, 
was built and Shakespeare became a leading shareholder and the 
principal playwright to the theatre company. He was also an actor, but not a first-rate one: the parts 
he played were the old servant Adam in “As You like It” and the Ghost in “Hamlet”.
In 1613, after the Globe had been destroyed by fire during a performance of “Henry VIII” he 
retired and stopped writing. By then he was very ill. He died on April 23, 1616 and was buried in 
the Holy Trinity church in Stratford where he was christened. 
Although some of Shakespeare’s plays were published during his life-time, not until his 
death was any attempt made to collect them in a single volume. The first edition of Shakespeare’s 
collected plays appeared in 1623.
Shakespeare’s works are truly immortal, and will retain their immortality as long as the 
human race exists. He is a true classic; every new generation finds something new and unperceived 
in his works. His popularity all over the world grows from year to year.