Is Shakespeare worth studying?

Shakespeare is indeed worth studying. He wrote such an array of pieces in his lifetime, it was just unbelievable. He wrote numerous plays and sonnets, and much more. All of his plays were extraordinary, written in such a way that one might think that they would take a lifetime to write. But not for Shakespeare. He wrote all of his plays in iambic pentameter, which is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Each line of his play was written with ten syllables, every other one either stressed or unstressed, and he still managed to have the play make sense. His wordings of the plays are beautiful to listen to, and have many different meaning hidden within them. These factors make the plays worth studying, because one can learn a lot. Shakespeare also wrote sonnets. One hundred fifty-four of them. One may wonder how this is possible, how he has time after he has written so many plays. But Shakespeare continues to amaze. His sonnets are not just regular poems. He came up with his own way of writing sonnets, which became a completely new form of sonnet writing. As you can see, Shakespeare is very complex. He is not an easy subject to study, and when one does, it is very worth it. There is so much that Shakespeare has created, and it may be hard to understand because we do not speak like that today, but one can realize that the ideas and thoughts in his works are still ones we have today. Overall, no one could regret studying Shakespeare.

Sources:

"Iambic Pentameter." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 17 May 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_pentameter>.

"William Shakespeare." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 17 May 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare>.

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