why was william shakesphere considerd an imporant writer?

Answer 1

Because he was a literary genius- literally.

He has revolutionized drama, literature, performance arts with his works and to this day and forever he still gets quoted from his plays and characters.

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616)[1] was an English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language, and as the world's preeminent dramatist.[2] He wrote approximately 38 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems.[3] Already popular in his own lifetime, Shakespeare became more famous after his death and his work was adulated by many prominent cultural figures through the centuries.[4] He is often considered to be England's national poet[5] and is sometimes referred to as the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard")[6] or the "Swan of Avon".[7]

Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1586 and 1612, although the exact dates and chronology of the plays attributed to him are under considerable debate. He is counted among the few playwrights who have excelled in both tragedy and comedy; his plays combine popular appeal with complex characterisation, and poetic grandeur with philosophical depth.

Shakespeare's works have been translated into every major living language,[8] and his plays are continually performed all around the world. Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in the literature and history of the English-speaking world,[9] and many of his quotations and neologisms have passed into everyday usage in English and other languages. Many have speculated about Shakespeare, including his sexuality, religious affiliation, and the authorship of the works attributed to him.

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Answer 2

"Shakespeare's reputation has grown considerably since his own time. During his lifetime and shortly after his death, Shakespeare was well-regarded but not considered the supreme poet of his age. He was included in some contemporary lists of leading poets, but he lacked the stature of Edmund Spenser or Philip Sidney. After the Interregnum stage ban of 1642–1660, the new Restoration theatre companies had the previous generation of playwrights as the mainstay of their repertory, most of all the phenomenally popular Beaumont and Fletcher team, but also Ben Jonson and Shakespeare. As with other older playwrights, Shakespeare's plays were mercilessly adapted by later dramatists for the Restoration stage with little of the reverence that would later develop."

"Beginning in the late 17th century, Shakespeare began to be considered the supreme English-language playwright (and, to a lesser extent, poet). Initially this reputation focused on Shakespeare as a dramatic poet, to be studied on the printed page rather than in the theatre. By the early 19th century, though, Shakespeare began hitting peaks of fame and popularity. During this time, theatrical productions of Shakespeare provided spectacle and melodrama for the masses and were extremely popular. Romantic critics such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge then raised admiration for Shakespeare to adulation or bardolatry (from bard + idolatry), in line with the Romantic reverence for the poet as prophet and genius. In the middle to late 19th century, Shakespeare also became an emblem of English pride and a "rallying-sign", as Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1841, for the whole British Empire."

"This reverence has provoked an unforeseen negative reaction in the youth. In the 21st century most people in the English-speaking world encounter Shakespeare at school at a young age, and there is an association by some students of his work with boredom beyond comprehension and of "high art" not easily appreciated by popular culture; an ironic fate considering the social mix of Shakespeare's audience. Nonetheless, Shakespeare's plays remain more frequently staged than the works of any other playwright and are frequently adapted into film—including Hollywood movies specifically marketed to broad teenage audiences, though many simply take credit for his plots rather than his narrative. Famously, Shakespeare's plays are often transferred to a different environment even when retaining his dialogue."

Answer 3

I think more than anything, he helped to enhance the English language, Like Chaucer with "The Canterbury Tales" who came before him, and make it not just the language of a common, squalidly people, but of intelligence and grace and literature, like French and Latin, and other languages back then that were considered to be the language of the upper class. . .
He made English cool!

Answer 4

To skip the pedantic-academic vein.Shakespeare was known for his clever,inventive,and insightful use of the the English language(in terms of the human condition-ergo psychology).

Other than that his plays(historical,tragedy,comedy)are mostly
similar,Oh !but the language,WOW!

Answer 5

His groundbreaking arts of literature have influenced authors and poets of today:

"He is counted among the few playwrights who have excelled in both tragedy and comedy; his plays combine popular appeal with complex characterisation, and poetic grandeur with philosophical depth." ~ wikipedia.com

Answer 6

He coined many idioms and expressions still used today, and his plays are well-written versions of beloved old plots.

Answer 7

Just look at his legacy. He was the first to use many words that we commonly use today. Plus he also invented many words. Here is a list of words he either first used or invented.
Academe
accessible
accommodation
addiction (Shakespeare meant “tendency”)
admirable
aerial (Shakespeare meant “of the air”)
airless
amazement
anchovy
arch-villain
to arouse
assassination
auspicious
bachelorship (“bachelorhood”)
to barber
barefaced
baseless
batty (Shakespeare meant “bat-like”)
beachy (“beach-covered”)
to bedabble
to bedazzle
bedroom (Shakespeare meant “room in bed”)
to belly (“to swell”)
belongings
to besmirch
to bet
to bethump
birthplace
black-faced
to blanket
bloodstained
bloodsucking
blusterer
bodikins (“little bodies”)
bold-faced
braggartism
brisky
broomstaff (“broom-handle”)
bubble
budger (“one who budges”)
bump (as a noun)
buzzer (Shakespeare meant “tattle-tale”)
to cake
candle holder
to canopy
to cater (as “to bring food”)
to castigate
catlike
to champion
characterless
cheap (in pejorative sense of “vulgar”)
chimney-top
chopped (Shakespeare meant “chapped”)
churchlike
circumstantial
clutch
cold-blooded
coldhearted
colourful
compact (as noun “agreement”)
to comply
to compromise (Shakespeare meant “to agree”)
consanguineous (related by blood)
control (as a noun)
coppernose (“a kind of acne”)
countless
courtship
to cow (as “intimidate”)
critical
cruelhearted
to cudgel
Dalmatian
to dapple
dauntless
dawn (as a noun)
day’s work
deaths-head
defeat (the noun)
to denote
depositary (as “trustee”)
dewdrop
dexterously (Shakespeare spelled it “dexteriously”)
disgraceful (Shakespeare meant “unbecoming”)
to dishearten
to dislocate
distasteful (Shakespeare meant “showing disgust”)
distrustful
dog-weary
doit (a Dutch coin: “a pittance”)
domineering
downstairs
East Indies
to educate
to elbow
embrace (as a noun)
employer
employment
enfranchisement
engagement
to enmesh
enrapt
to enthrone
epileptic
equivocal
eventful
excitement (Shakespeare meant “incitement”)
expedience
expertness
exposure
eyeball
eyedrop (Shakespeare meant as a “tear”)
eyewink
face (meaning the dial of a clock)
fair-faced
fairyland
fanged
fap (“intoxicated”)
farmhouse
far-off
fashionable
fashionmonger
fathomless (Shakespeare meant “too huge to be encircled by one’s arms”)
fat-witted
featureless (Shakespeare meant “ugly”)
fiendlike
to fishify (“turn into fish”)
fitful
fixture (Shakespeare meant “fixing” or setting “firmly in place”)
fleshment (“the excitement of first success”)
flirt-gill (a “floozy”)
flowery (“full of florid expressions”)
fly-bitten
footfall
foppish
foregone
fortune-teller
foul mouthed
Franciscan
freezing (as an adjective)
fretful
frugal
full-grown
fullhearted
futurity
gallantry (Shakespeare meant “gallant people”)
garden house
generous (Shakespeare meant “gentle,” “noble”)
gentlefolk
glow (as a noun)
to glutton
to gnarl
go-between
to gossip (Shakespeare meant “to make oneself at home like a gossip—that is, a kindred spirit or a fast friend”)
grass plot
gravel-blind
gray-eyed
green-eyed
grief-shot (as “sorrow-stricken”)
grime (as a noun)
to grovel
gust (as a “wind-blast”)
half-blooded
to happy (“to gladden”)
heartsore
hedge-pig
hell-born
to hinge
hint (as a noun)
hobnail (as a noun)
homely (sense “ugly”)
honey-tongued
hornbook (an “alphabet tablet”)
hostile
hot-blooded
howl (as a noun)
to humor
hunchbacked
hurly (as a “commotion”)
to hurry
idle-headed
ill-tempered
ill-used
impartial
to impede
imploratory (“solicitor”)
import (the noun: “importance” or “significance”)
inaudible
inauspicious
incarnadine (verb: "to make red with blood"; used in Macbeth)
indirection
indistinguishable
inducement
informal (Shakespeare meant “unformed” or “irresolute”)
to inhearse (to “load into a hearse”)
to inlay
to instate (Shakespeare, who spelled it “enstate,” meant “to endow”)
inventorially (“in detail”)
investment (Shakespeare meant as “a piece of clothing”)
invitation
invulnerable
jaded (Shakespeare seems to have meant “contemptible”)
juiced (“juicy”)
keech (“solidified fat”)
kickie-wickie (a derogatory term for a wife)
kitchen-wench
lackluster
ladybird
lament
land-rat
to lapse
laughable
leaky
leapfrog
lewdster
loggerhead (Shakespeare meant “blockhead”)
lonely (Shakespeare meant “lone”)
long-legged
love letter
lustihood
lustrous
madcap
madwoman
majestic
malignancy (Shakespeare meant “malign tendency”)
manager
marketable
marriage bed
militarist (Shakespeare meant “soldier”)
mimic (as a noun)
misgiving (sense “uneasiness”)
misquote
mockable (as “deserving ridicule”)
money’s worth (“money-worth” dates from the 14th century)
monumental
moonbeam
mortifying (as an adjective)
motionless
mountaineer (Shakespeare meant as “mountain-dweller”)
to muddy
neglect (as a noun)
to negotiate
never-ending
newsmonger
nimble-footed
noiseless
nook-shotten (“full of corners or angles”)
to numb
obscene (Shakespeare meant “revolting”)
ode
to offcap (to “doff one’s cap”)
offenseful (meaning “sinful”)
offenseless (“unoffending”)
Olympian (Shakespeare meant “Olympic”)
to operate
oppugnancy (“antagonism”)
outbreak
to outdare
to outfrown
to out-Herod
to outscold
to outsell (Shakespeare meant “to exceed in value”)
to out-talk
to out-villain
to outweigh
overblown (Shakespeare meant “blown over”)
overcredulous
overgrowth
to overpay
to overpower
to overrate
overview (Shakespeare meant as “supervision”)
pageantry
to palate (Shakespeare meant “to relish”)
pale-faced
to pander
passado (a kind of sword-thrust)
paternal
pebbled
pedant (Shakespeare meant a schoolmaster)
pedantical
pendulous (Shakespeare meant “hanging over”)
to perplex
to petition
pignut (a type of tuber)
pious
please-man (a “yes-man”)
plumpy (“plump”)
posture (Shakespeare seems to have meant “position” or “positioning”)
prayerbook
priceless
profitless
Promethean
protester (Shakespeare meant “one who affirms”)
published (Shakespeare meant “commonly recognized”)
to puke
puppy-dog
pushpin (Shakespeare was referring to a children’s game)
on purpose
quarrelsome
in question (as in “the … in question”)
radiance
to rant
rascally
rawboned (meaning “very gaunt”)
reclusive
refractory
reinforcement (Shakespeare meant “renewed force”)
reliance
remorseless
reprieve (as a noun)
resolve (as a noun)
restoration
restraint (as “reserve”)
retirement
to reverb (“to re-echo”)
revokement (“revocation”)
revolting (Shakespeare meant as “rebellious”)
to reword (Shakespeare meant “repeat”)
ring carrier (a “go-between”)
to rival (meaning to “compete”).
roadway
roguery
rose-cheeked
rose-lipped
rumination
ruttish (horny)
one's Salad Days
sanctimonious
to sate
satisfying (as an adjective)
savage (as “uncivilized”)
savagery
schoolboy
scrimer (“a fence”)
scrubbed (Shakespeare meant “stunted”)
scuffle
seamy (“seamed”) and seamy-side (Shakespeare meant “under-side of a garment”)
to secure (Shakespeare meant “to obtain security”)
self-abuse (Shakespeare meant “self-deception”)
shipwrecked (Shakespeare spelled it “shipwrackt”)
shooting star
shudder (as a noun)
silk stocking
silliness
to sire
skimble-skamble (“senseless”)
skim milk (in quarto; “skim’d milk” in the Folio)
slugabed (one who sleeps in)
to sneak
soft-hearted
spectacled
spilth (“something spilled”)
spleenful
sportive
to squabble
stealthy
stillborn
to subcontract (Shakespeare meant “to remarry”)
successful
suffocating (as an adjective)
to sully
to supervise (Shakespeare meant “to peruse”)
to swagger
tanling (someone with a tan)
tardiness
time-honored
title page
tortive (“twisted”)
to torture
traditional (Shakespeare meant “tradition-bound”)
tranquil
transcendence
trippingly
unaccommodated
unappeased
to unbosom
unchanging
unclaimed
uncomfortable (sense “disquieting”)
to uncurl
to undervalue (Shakespeare meant “to judge as of lesser value”)
to undress
unearthy
uneducated
to unfool
unfrequented
ungoverned
ungrown
to unhappy
unhelpful
unhidden
unlicensed
unmitigated
unmusical
to un muzzle
unpolluted
unpremeditated
unpublished (Shakespeare meant “undisclosed”)
unquestionable (Shakespeare meant “impatient”)
unquestioned
unreal
unrivaled
unscarred
unscratched
to unsex (verb: "to [in its context] make a woman unwomanly (that she might do deeds of men (murder)"; said by Lady Macbeth, in her husband's play)
unsolicited
unsullied
unswayed (Shakespeare meant “unused” and “ungoverned”)
untutored
unvarnished
unwillingness (sense “reluctance”)
upstairs
useful
useless
valueless
varied (as an adjective)
varletry
vasty
vulnerable
watchdog
water drop
water fly
weird
well-behaved
well-bred
well-educated
well-read
to widen (Shakespeare meant “to open wide”)
wittolly (“contentedly a cuckhold”)
worn out (Shakespeare meant “dearly departed”)
wry-necked (“crook-necked”)
yelping (as an adjective)
zany (a clown’s sidekick or a mocking mimic)