This article serves as the headquarters of all things Shakespeare. Readers receive basic information about Shakespeare’s life such as important dates (birth, death, publications,	etc.), a list of all his work. This article also provides specific details about his early life,	including names of family members, his marriage and children and his life as both actor and playwright. Researchers claim that they were able to deduce the little information about Shakespeare from his works (the social clues hidden between the lines of his plays and sonnets), and any and all documents and records from the time. There is also mention of Shakespeare’s “Lost Years,” or the seven years after the death of his son in which the Bard went “off the grid.” There are speculations of his whereabouts and doing during the time but research has proved that there is not much evidence to properly back one theory.

              Durk’s text examines Shakespeare and his work from an overly analytical standpoint. He makes it clear that he thinks Shakespeare is a genius as a creative playwright because of	his ability to make his work as ambiguous and transparent as air. Throughout the hundreds of years that have passed between Shakespeare’s death and today, his works continue to survive the literary world because they are so capable to be viewed as	relevant now as they were yesterday. Durk also claims that another reason why	Shakespeare’s plays are such a pivotal factor in academia and why he has gained so much popularity among students, specifically college students, is because of his candid	mentions of adult themes, i.e., love, sex, masturbation, murder, politics and justice. Durk	leaves readers with one final thought as he closes his essay: Shakespeare’s change in content with time and the change in popularity with content is what makes Shakespeare the greatest and most admired writer in the English language of all time.

Just as the name of the article is titles, the context of the piece explains author, Robert McCrum’s, top ten reasons why Shakespeare as impacted the world and society. He touched on points like the use of Shakespeare’s vocabulary, including the words he created in his works, and intricate way with words being the fire that fuels the essence of romanticism in everyday life. His simple yet dense with human complexity plots that host a very wide range of extremely relatable characters acting as the real reason why readers keep coming back for more! McCrum also rubs in the fact that it’s Shakespeare’s wit and way with language that make him the second most quoted author.  The number of popular phrases repeated by hundreds of people around the world that come directly from Shakespeare’s plays is evidence to McCrum that Shakespeare’s work is still very much alive and active today.

Shakespeare’s influence seems to stretch far beyond the world of literature. In fact, his	power, presence and WORD has reached biologists, psychologists and revolutionaries! In	1890, biologists teamed up to identify 60 different species of Starlings flying around in	Central Park, after first being introduced to the bird in Henry IV, Part One. Shakespeare’s openness about sex and sexuality in his works also made an impact on psychologists like Sigmund Freud, who very strongly believed that humans were motivated by sexuality.	The topic of Shakespeare’s free descriptions of sex and masturbation in his work almost monopolizes the article, claiming that Shakespeare was beyond his time. This candidness	was a huge impact on the sexual revolution in the 60’s. Free thinking university professors preached the gospel of Shakespearean sex being so liberating and acceptable after turning to his plays and ingesting all of his sexual undertones.

With his rich language and themes that still strongly resonate today, teachers find that Shakespeare offers contemporary connections that open pathways to learning for some of society’s most marginalized.  There is no doubt that Shakespeare is what he is today because of both pop culture and academia and the reason behind that is because the content that can be found in Shakespeare’s work is so absorbing. Shakespeare didn’t write novels or long epics like Homer, instead he wrote intricate plays infested with high stakes, fully conscious characters with a motivation and manner of being all their own	and themes that are universally applicable to modern life. Shakespeare intended for his works to be experienced rather than just read and studied in a classroom environment. He wanted audiences to be fully absorbed in the universe of his plays – he wanted audiences to cheer and boo at his characters as they came to life before their eyes.