♦ Twelfth Night: - এটি Shakespeare লিখিত একটি নাটক। - Twelfth Night, in full Twelfth Night; or, What You Will. - 5acts বিশিষ্ট একটি comedy. - One of Shakespeare’s finest comedies, Twelfth Night precedes the great tragedies and problem plays in order of composition.
• William Shakespeare: - William Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564 AD and died on 23 April 1616 AD. - তার জন্মস্থান Stratford Avon. - তিনি একাধারে একজন English poet, dramatist এবং actor. - তাকে English national poet বলা হয়। - তাকে 'Bard of Avon' বা Swan of Avon বলা হয়। - Shakespeare wrote a total of 37 plays and 154 sonnets.
• Notable works: • Tragedy: - Hamlet,*** - Othello,*** - King Lear,*** - Macbeth,*** - Titus Andronicus, - Timons of Athens - Antony and Cleopatra ** - Coriolanus - Romeo and Juliet ***
• Comedy: - As You Like It,*** - The Tempest,*** - Twelfth Night,*** - Love's Labour's Lost - A Comedy of Error - The Taming of the Shrew - Much Ado About Nothing - All's Well That Ends Well - A Midsummer Night's Dream *** - The Merry Wives of Windsor - The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Tragi-comedy - The Merchant of Venice *** - The Winter's Tale - Cymbeline - Troilus and Cressida - Measure for Measure ***
• Historical play - Julius Caesar (Tragedy + Historical) *** - Henry IV Part I - Henry IV Part II - Henry V - Henry VI Part I - Henry VI Part II - Henry VI Part III - Henry VIII - King John - Richard II - Richard III
• Famous poem: - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer Day/Sonnet 18, - The Rape of Lucrece, - Venus and Adonis *** - A Lover's Complaint