评价莎士比亚的诗句英语

Shakespeare was not revered in his lifetime, but he received his share of praise. In 1598, the cleric and author Francis Meres singled him out from a group of English writers as "the most excellent" in both comedy and tragedy. And the authors of the Parnassus plays at St John's College, Cambridge, numbered him with Chaucer, Gower and Spenser. In the First Folio, Ben Jonson called Shakespeare the "Soul of the age, the applause, delight, the wonder of our stage", though he had remarked elsewhere that "Shakespeare wanted art".

There are many reasons as to why William Shakespeare is so famous. He is general considered to be both the great dramatist the world has ever known as well as the finest poet who has written in the English language. Many reasons can be given for Shakespeare's enormous appeal. His fame basically is from his great understanding of human nature. He was able to find universal human qualities and put them in a dramatic situation creating characters that are timeless. Yet he had the ability to create characters that are highly individual human beings. Their struggles in life are universal. Sometimes they are successful and sometimes lives are full of pain, suffering, and failure.

Shakespeare has been given the highest praise by various scholars and critics all over the world, sometimes as the greatest English or European dramatist and poet, sometimes even as the greatest playwright in the whole globe, past and present. So much so, that some critics began to ask more clear-headed estimates of the poet and his works, not to idolize him but to evaluate him properly, "this side idolatry". Some other critics still tended to praise him beyond his desert. An attempt at a more appropriate re-evaluation of the great dramatist and poet is therefore much needed.