Throughout the world known, for more than 400 years in countless rural communities, towns, cities and capitals the works of William Shakespeare have been performed. On …show more content…
The September 20, 1592 edition of the Stationers' Register includes an article by Robert Greene a london playwrighter that takes a few pokes at William Shakespeare: "...There is an unknown Crow, revamped with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, assumes he is as well able to bluster out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own vanity the only Shake-scene in a country," Greene wrote of Shakespeare.
Scholars differ on the explanation of this condemnation, but most agree that it was Greene's way of saying. Shakespeare was attaining above his rank, trying to match better recognized and cultured playwrighters like Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe or Greene …show more content…
However, Shakespeare was very inventive, adjusted the conventional style to his own intentions and creating a free flow of words. With only small scales of distinctions, Shakespeare mainly used a musical pattern consisting of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, or blank verse, to compose his plays. At the same time, there are channels in all the plays that diverge from this and use forms of poetry or simple writing