The Works of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is generally considered the finest playwright the world has ever seen and the greatest poet who created his plays in the English language. Shakespeare is also the most famous author in the world. No other writer's work has been published so many times or read so widely in so many places. Shakespeare knew human nature like few other writers. He was able to notice in a particular dramatic case the qualities that refer to all human beings. He could thus produce characters who have a notion beyond the time and place of his works. However, his characters are not symbolic characters. They are distinguished human beings. They strive as people do in real situations, sometimes successfully and sometimes with awkward and tragic happenstance. Shakespeare created at least 37 works. These works include living characters of all kinds and from all walks of life. Kings, pickpockets, thieves, shepherds and philosophers, generals and hitmen all blend together in Shakespeare's writings. In addition to his profound conception of human nature, Shakespeare possessed knowledge in a wide variety of other subjects. These subjects include music, law, art and politics, Bible, military science, history and sports. Yet Shakespeare had no professional knowledge in any field, excluding theater. Above all other writers stands William Shakespeare, the greatest genius whom it is not possible to characterize briefly. Shakespeare is remarkable as a poet and individual, but he remains elusive. The solidity and deep popularity of his taste gave him the opportunity to direct the Renaissance in England without privileging or prejudging any of its various aspects, while as an actor, playwright and shareholder in the Lord Chamberlain's Players he was drawn into Elizabethan theater at every stage. His career (dated from 1589 to 1613) was situated precisely at the time of his greatest literary prosperity, and it was only in his writings that all the possibilities of the Renaissance were fully realized. The confusions and divergences of Shakespeare's time find their greatest fulfillment in his tragedies. In these exceptional achievements, all merits, hierarchies and types are examined and found inadequate, and all the hidden conflicts of society are brought to the fore. Shakespeare pits husband against wife, mother against child, middle of paper, struggles with many problems that overwhelm him like the waves of the ocean, threatening to destroy him. This is what makes him pessimistic and makes him think about death. Hamlet is an interesting character. He chooses to be a thinker but must play the role of an avenger. He is intelligent and tender, deeply disturbed by the evil and infidelity that surround him. His sudden shifts from inactivity to impulsive recklessness may make him a difficult character to categorize, but they make him one of the most intriguing characters in fiction. Hamlet is one of the notable characters known in world literature.References:1. Craig, WJ “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.” London: Oxford University Press: 1914; Bartleby.com, 2000.2. “What Happens in Hamlet” by John Dover Wilson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1935.3. Harry Levin "Hamlet's Question", Oxford University Press, New York, 1959.4. Nigel Alexander “Poison, Play and Duel: A Study of Hamlet”, Routledge, London, 1971.5. Shakespeare William “The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, London: Oxford University Press: 1914, 1350 p..