Write a dialogue between Shakesphere and yourself. Talk about his life, the times he lived in, plays of him which you have read and their affect on you. Try to make it witty?
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Shakespeare: My greatest influence were the works of other great writers, but one stood out more than the rest, Geoffery Chaucer is one of the finest poets that I came across to. I admire his work vastly due to the immense creativity in each of his poems. Some of his poems are the sources for my plays which brought a lot of attention and popularity for my shows. Therefore, Geoffery Chaucer is the man I appreciate.
Me: How did you impact and influenced other writers?
Shakespeare: As I learned from writers, writers also learn from me. A famous author John Keats, was very fascinated of my work that he went along and duplicated my style and my use of imagery. As of now, dozens of other authors use my words to title their novels. Such as, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and The Dogs of War by Robert Stone.
Me: How would you describe your lifestyle during your time in London?
Shakespeare: I can say I lived through a very hard time. At my time, London was a mess. Overcrowded, rat-infested, filled with diseases and worst of all the plague that wiped out a quarter of London. That's not all, I lived through smallpox, syphilis, typhus, and malaria. Top that!
Me: What could we know about your parents?
Shakespeare: My parents. John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. It was sometime between 1556 and 1558 when they got married. People assume both my parents could not write.
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Shakespeare used prose to tell us something about his characters by interrupting the rhythmic patterns of the play. Many of Shakespeare’s low-class characters speak in prose to distinguish them from the higher-class, verse-speaking characters. However, this should be treated as a general “rule of thumb”.
For example, one of Hamlet’s most poignant speeches is delivered entirely in prose, even though he is a Prince:
I have of late – but wherefore I know not – lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire – why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.