What Is The Importance Of Shakespeare?

This question is often asked, especially by disgruntled students forced to sit through dreary "Shakespeare lessons" at school; and some very eminent writers, including Tolstoy and Shaw, have questioned his reputation. And yet people go on reading, watching and performing Shakespeare more than any other dramatist in the world.
Ultimately, what is special about him is perhaps that, if you study all his work, you get the impression that there was no human experience – no state of mind, no predicament – that he could not understand and portray. At first glance it might seem impossible that someone writing 400 years ago could have so much to tell a modern audience; but people today are still finding their personal, social and political situation mirrored in Shakespeare. In fact he is even used on management courses!
However, it is probably in his portrayal of our deepest and most private emotions that Shakespeare still speaks to us. As Bernard Levin said, "No other writer…has brought us so close to the heart of the ultimate mystery of the universe and of man's place in it."

    Think of an INTERNATIONAL playwright, from another country, other than England, who was born over 400 years ago. Got one?  Cervantes? Who is famous for just one play, Don Quixote? Dante? Famous for The Divine Comedy? And that is all. The nearest that comes to Shakespeare, is his friend and fellow playwright, Christopher Marlowe, whose early death closed, perhaps, the greatest mind in playwrighting ever. Shakespeare wrote about his time, never once thinking of the future, and wrote about the events and occasions that frequented his life span, drawing in advice, observation, research, etc and putting it all down in his own writing style, quite apart from those said to have written his work, and including the words of Kings and Dukes alongside the drunken snatches from ordinary English folk.  His added matter relative to the English countryside is universally known, his knowledge of Law and of medicine of the time, is unchallenged. The humour in several plays, is as fresh now as it ever was.

    Shakespeare was a revelation of, and in, his time. No other writer of English grammar and rhetoric, comes to mind, (and there ARE a few!).  He left behind, what can only be described as a monumental hiatus in the every day writing of English

 

Because this is where we got our english from!! God ts not hard to figure out!!!!