Lasting for over 400 years, Shakespeare’s works have been regarded as some of the most admired of all time. Many people have written essays, even books, on what made him such a good writer or if he was really that good at all. These reasons can be construed many different ways, but there is no way of knowing who is right or wrong, so all they can do now is argue. After reading Shakespeare or after hearing someone praise him, many questions come to mind. Why was he so popular? What is it about his writing that made his works stand the test of time, where other writers of that period were erased by the dust of time? Was he really the best? Some essayists stated their opinions of these questions, some blatantly, others between the lines.

The character development is seen as one of the reasons of Shakespeare’s immense success as a writer. J.B. Priestley commends Shakespeare in Macbeth for the lines of the character Macbeth. He compares Macbeth to a poet because what he says is so brilliant. Priestly also explains how Shakespeare doesn�

With the Shakespearian plays of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth now under my belt, so to speak, I have gotten a glimpse of Shakespeare’s strengths. Even in my first reading in junior high of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, I noticed how the words flow from sentence to sentence, even though most of it went over my head. I can’t imagine how hard it would be to figure out words to fit in a specific pattern, according to syllables, and actually make a coherent story out of it, let alone a work of art. I also see his word use as amazing. When he couldn’t find a word in English to fit where he needed it, he made up a word from a different language that did. However, I disagree with going into such detail as Thomas DeQuincey in “On Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” as to pick apart the reason why a door opened at a specific moment. Shakespeare was an excellent writer and planted many devices in his plays to evoke emotion, but the opening of a door after Macbeth murdered Duncan does not seem to be one of them, and DeQuincey’s eccentricity t

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