Because they didn't have much in terms of setting and props to give you a scene, Shakespeare wrote in a ton of details - that way, the audience could know what was going on in the scene, and where they were, etc.
Shakespeare did not have the luxury of a movie camera. He could not project images for his audience to see, so he had to evoke them with words. The thrust stage on which his actors played was and is not suitable to complex scenery or sets, so again he used words to evoke these things.
Shakespeare himself bemoans the fact that he must try to excite the imaginations of his audience with his words in the prologue to his play Henry V. Ironically, that prologue is one of the most beautiful and evocative passages in any of the plays.
"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that have dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object: can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?
O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
Attest in little place a million;
And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
On your imaginary forces work.
Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:
Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
Into a thousand parts divide one man,
And make imaginary puissance;
Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings"
five acts
Ophelia, who drowns (maybe a suicide as she is mad and so falls into the water). She is mad out of grief for her father polonius, who Hamlet killed accidentally.
He completely revolutionalized the way of writing and even added new types of plays such as dramas. And with his deep understanding of human nature people begun to recognize him as the greatest author of all time
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It is a line from William Shakespeares Hamlet. Most of William Shakespeares plays are still famous now as he is regarded as the greatest writer in the English Language.
Yes, I can. So can you, probably, if you think about it, but if not, check the related question.
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I first found Shakespeare's plays when I was introduced to them at school.
hamlet
The Globe Theater, London.
england.
The Puritans.
wrote lots of plays
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