The Third Period literary career Shakespeare (1608-1612)

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The Third Period
(1608-1612)

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During the third period of his
literary career Shakespeare
wrote the following plays:
Cymberline (1610)
The Winter's Tale (1610)
The Tempest (1611)
Henry VIII (1613)

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These plays are called romantic dramas.
There are no great problems and strong
conflicts in them. Shakespeare has
entered into the beautiful world of fantasy
and allegory. Still, all the plays are
masterly written, and they express his
belief in the future happiness of mankind.

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Nature occupies an important place in
Shakespeare's works. His own attitude to it
changes as the author himself changes. In
the early comedies his heroes find
happiness and peace of mind in nature, in
the tragedies nature turns against them, and
in the romantic dramas one feels that man
can conquer nature.

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Shakespeare's Contribution
to the World Literature

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To sum up we can say that during his life-time
Shakespeare created a variety of plays and characters.
The ideas set out by the Renaissance, the struggle for
happiness and freedom, are expressed by him I in the
most realistic forms. Shakespeare's plays have become
so popular in the world because of his great humanist
ideas and his realistic characters. Shakespeare did not
idealize the people he portrayed. I He painted them as
they were in his time. He created characters of J, great
depth and unusual intellects. We see a philosopher in
Hamlet, learned man in Horatio, a cunning diplomat in
Claudius.
Many scholars have studied Shakespeare.

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Many scholars have studied
Shakespeare. These are the
central themes Shakespeare
dealt with in his plays:

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1. The idea of freedom for
peoples. This is felt in his
tragedies and historical
plays.

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2. Humanism. The love
for mankind is seen in
every play.

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3. Freedom for the
individual.

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4. The idea of
patriotism.

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5. National unity under
one strong king. The
last two themes are
stressed in King Lear.

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6. Social relations
between people.

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7. The masses as a
political force.

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8. The themes of love and
friendship which are
developed in his sonnets
as well as in his plays.

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9.The struggle against
cruel medieval bloodfeuds (in Romeo and
Juliet).

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Shakespeare achieved great skill in speech
individualization of his characters through the
choice of words, and the use of folklore —
popular songs, ballads and sayings. That is why
the plays are written in the living language of the
epoch.

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There are some phrases that have
become part of the everyday
language of Englishmen. They
have become sayings:

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•All's well that ends well.

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•All that glisters is not
gold.

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•A sea of troubles.

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•Brevity is the soul of
wit.

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•To be or not to be, that is the
question.

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•Conscience doth make
cowards of us all.

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•Love's labour's (is)
lost.

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•Much ado about nothing.

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•There is no darkness
but ignorance.

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•...best men are moulded
out of faults.

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Shakespeare's ideas of love, freedom, humanism
and national unity are still very popular.
Shakespeare is far from us only in time. When he
speaks in his plays, we feel that he speaks for us
and to us. His plays are staged by all the world's
theatres and in Russia as well. Fourteen operas
were composed on the theme of Romeo and
Juliet

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Verdi, Rossini, Berlioz wrote-operas on Othello
and Macbeth. There are many symphonic
works — Tchaikovsky's Tempest, Liszt's
Hamlet. The whole world knows Prokofiev's
beautiful ballet music to Romeo and Juliet.
Shastokovich composed beautiful music to the
sonnets. Almost all Shakespeare's comedies
and tragedies have appeared in the cinema.
One of the best productions is Hamlet.