Part one of term paper
The English dramatist and poet was the author of the most widely admired and influential body of literature by any individual in the history of Western civilization. His work includes 36 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems. Knowledge of Shakespeare is derived from two sources: his works and those remains of legal and church records and ...

Part two of term paper
... Shakespeare, have achieved worldwide renown. In the earlier Middle English period there had been, within the church, a gradual spread of dramatic representation of such important events as the angel's announcement of the resurrection to the women at the tomb of Christ.The Renaissance drama proper rose from this late medieval base by a number of different stages ending about 1580. A large number of comedies, tragedies, and examples of intermediate types were produced for London theaters betwe ...