You Deserve The Best In Life

The last quarter of the 16ft century saw an outburst of English drama whose true gem was indeed William Shakespeare (1564—1616). To the  reader, the coming of Shakespeare seems miraculous, if not mysterious. Given the fact that very little is known about his personality, some people doubt that he had ever written anything at all — there must have been some other author, they argue. In fact, Shakespeare's emergence was powerful, but in no way surprising. By the time he was born, England had a steady cultural basis for a new era in literature. In the early 16th century John Colett, an Oxford professor, introduced a new standard for school education, under which children of common people were taught Latin classical literature like Virgil and Cicero. The recently invented printing press allowed even poor people to have text-books. It was also throughout the 16th century that many pieces of ancient and contemporary foreign literature were translated into English and published in hundr