Influence Influence Shakespeare's Life

The English Renaissance was a time period in which many great plays, sonnets, and writers became famous. William Shakespeare was the most famous writer to come out of this time period, and is regarded as one of the best English writers of all time. Known for his creative use of words, he wrote thirty-seven plays and one hundred fifty-four sonnets. He even invented new words when there were no words in the English language that truly expressed what he wanted. Influences such as Shakespeare 's culture and family, affected his writing, giving it unique traits that are commonly found in his writing. Like everyone else, Shakespeare 's ideas come from influences in his life. One of the biggest influences on him was the birth of his granddaughter.

There were many types of personalities in the various types of fairies, ranging from mischievous fairies to deadly ones. One type of fairy is the life-sized, fiendish ones (Papp). They were accused of making the milk turn sour and making livestock sick, and were one of the many worries that people had (Papp). These fairies were disliked by the masses and were probably well known in Shakespeare’s time, and that why he mentioned them in his work. A fiendish fairy was mentioned in The Comedy of Errors as, ”A fend, A fairy, pitiless and rough”(Papp). Another type of fairy is the type of fairy that came into peoples homes at night and rewarded well-kept households.(Papp) In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the fairy Puck is one of the good fairies. One of his fellow fairies in the play told him, “Those that ;Hobgoblin’ call you, and ‘Sweet Puck;’ You do their work, and the shall have good luck.

One of them is that the heroes are usually not the first characters that are seen in the play (Dozier). Normally in his plays, Shakespeare focuses on the side characters first and lets them talk about the main character before introducing them to us (Dozier).He primarily uses this method to describe the protagonist and show what other characters think of the protagonist. Most of Shakespeare 's main male characters are all virtuous and strong; they have a few flaws, while the female leads are usually petite and delicate. (Dozier). His characters always have these traits because it was a stereotype of the society that he lived in. Men were expected to lead the family while women were expected to follow their lead obediently. Characters’ names usually indicate their traits, personalities, and what might happen to them. (Dozier) The Character named Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night 's Dream is a character that believes he is great at everything, but, in reality he is not really good at anything that he does. In the end, he always makes a fool of himself. Also, in the play, Bottom’s head transforms into the head of a donkey. Another good example is Malvolio, the primary antagonist, from Twelfth Night. He is a puritan and hates all fun and games. His name which means “ill will” in Latin hints to us that he might be an antagonist, and that he wants to cause harm to