Carina diedericks-hugo biography of william shakespeare

Possibly the best known of these plays is Hamlet , which explores betrayal, retribution, incest, and moral failure. Shakespeare wrote comedies throughout his career, including his first play The Taming of the Shrew. Some of his comedies might be better described as tragicomedies. Although graver in tone than the comedies, they are not the dark tragedies of King Lear or Macbeth because they end with reconciliation and forgiveness.

Additional Shakespeare comedies include:. Shakespeare is known to have created plays with other writers, such as John Fletcher. They also collaborated on Cardenio , a play which was not preserved. When including these works, Shakespeare has 41 plays to his name. Around the turn of the 17 th century, Shakespeare became a more extensive property owner in Stratford.

When his father, John, died in , he inherited the family home. Then, in , he purchased about acres for pounds. In , Shakespeare purchased leases of real estate near Stratford for pounds, which doubled in value and earned him 60 pounds a year. This made him an entrepreneur as well as an artist, and scholars believe these investments gave him uninterrupted time to write his plays.

He likely spent the last three years of his life in Stratford. Tradition holds that Shakespeare died on his 52 nd birthday, April 23, , but some scholars believe this is a myth. Church records show he was interred at Holy Trinity Church on April 25, In his will, he left the bulk of his possessions to his eldest daughter, Susanna, who by then was married.

However, there is very little evidence the two had a difficult marriage. He is credited with inventing or introducing more than 1, words to the English language, often as a result of combining words, changing usages, or blending in foreign root words. It was published with the title Mr. In addition to its literary importance, the First Folio contains an original portrait of Shakespeare on the title page.

The other is a memorial bust at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. Today, there are surviving copies of the First Folio that date back to , but experts estimate roughly First Folios were printed. Scholars and literary critics began to float names like Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere, and Francis Bacon —men of more known backgrounds, literary accreditation, or inspiration—as the true authors of the plays.

Official records from the Holy Trinity Church and the Stratford government record the existence of Shakespeare, but none of these attest to him being an actor or playwright. The most serious and intense skepticism began in the 19 th century when adoration for Shakespeare was at its highest. The detractors believed that the only hard evidence surrounding Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon described a man from modest beginnings who married young and became successful in real estate.

They contend that Shakespeare had neither the education nor the literary training to write such eloquent prose and create such rich characters.

Carina diedericks-hugo biography of william shakespeare

However, the vast majority of Shakespearean scholars contend that Shakespeare wrote all his own plays. They point out that other playwrights of the time also had sketchy histories and came from modest backgrounds. They point to evidence that displays his name on the title pages of published poems and plays. There is also strong circumstantial evidence of personal relationships by contemporaries who interacted with Shakespeare as an actor and a playwright.

What seems to be true is that Shakespeare was a respected man of the dramatic arts who wrote plays and acted in the late 16 th and early 17 th centuries. Beginning with the Romantic period of the early s and continuing through the Victorian period, acclaim and reverence for Shakespeare and his work reached its height. I realised that there were a multitude of opinions and perceptions, and gigabytes and reams of paper dedicated to the topic.

The only problem was that the opinions came not really from our generation, but from a much older generation. One marred by fear of an uncertain future, alarmists when it comes to language issues and elitists in assessing who are worthy to debate the future of our country and the state of Afrikaans and, ironically, who and what the youth have become.

Die lewe bestaan nie net uit plesier, vinnige voertuie, drink en jol met geen groter behoefte as om te beplan vir die aand se partytjie nie. Is dit die mense wat nou iets met waagmoed en 'n wrok wil skree? It has become very apparent that young South Africans, especially Afrikaans-speaking South Africans, are being stereotyped as apathetic, unconcerned about the plight of our land and our continent, oblivious to the threat of AIDS, unable to string two sentences together without resorting to English, and incapable of creating anything with creative value, choosing rather to stomp around to the beat of "deep" rock or hip-hop bands.

In my speech I tried to point out that who our generation really is and what the perception of it is, are two totally different things. Yes, we are distancing ourselves from traditional organisations that are claiming to be the image of Afrikaans or young South Africans. They do a lot to promote Afrikaans and empower young people. But there is a snag.

You have to give them the assurance that you are a Christian when applying for membership. Correct me if I am wrong, but I do believe the rest of us are past that already? So, my friends who are Muslim and speak Afrikaans are now being excluded from an organisation that claims to represent a whole language group. And it is not a question of race.

For that matter, I am not welcome either, even though I am a lieflike, wit boerenooi. But they feel highly offended if one tries to point out that with an elitist ethos such as theirs, we cannot give them our support. I did not vent all my anger towards one organisation. There are quite a few, actually, that could do with a youthful, colourful revamp.

What I did try to get them to understand was that there are organisations that still carry on as though was just another year and that are excluding young voices - voices that carry hope, energy, talent and an eagerness to see through the grey and embrace a colourful future. A future that will not just happen, but that will require hard work, change and a willingness to unite.

Needless to say, my speech at the KKNK was not well received. Or let me clarify that. It was well received by my generation, but certainly not by our grey friends. I am not being ageist. Grey is a state of mind. Hell hath no fury like an Establishment scorned. In retrospect, I should feel satisfied, because their reaction - a mixture of profound anger and hurt mutterings about loyalty - is actually what I wanted.

It is time that we spoke out against the negative perceptions of our generation, our relationship with Afrikaans, the way we express ourselves and the view we have of our country. And we should not be intimidated by threats or misplaced loyalty or patronising rebuttals. The well-known political analyst Prof Lawrence Schlemmer said in an article that young people experience cultural identity just as strongly as older people do.

There are no signs that the youth are vacating the cultural community, but they will be more attracted to organisations that address the problems they face on a day to day basis. Ander projekte. Carina Diedericks-Hugo. Lewe en werk [ wysig wysig bron ]. Skryfwerk [ wysig wysig bron ]. Publikasies [ wysig wysig bron ]. Bronnelys [ wysig wysig bron ].

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