Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Macbeth

William Shakespeare left behind a rich creative legacy – one and a half hundred sonnets, several poems, and nearly forty plays. Moreover, for most of his life, the bard wrote comedies, and he turned to tragedies quite late, but it is his tragic works that have taken root most firmly in world culture. The names of the characters have become household names, their lines have become proverbial, and the problems they face – the imperfection of man, the irresolvability of internal conflicts, the injustice of the world, and the inevitability of a dramatic finale – remain relevant today…