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This paper aims at examining the biographical facts of Shakespeare to understand his personality. This study mainly focuses on the documents about Shakespeare, but they may be insufficient for this research because there rarely remain the formal materials about him. However, we can get them from four sources of information: his works, the comments, tradition and gossip, and documentary records. Through those materials, we can guess that Shakespeare was a kind, gentle, and sociable man. Though Robert Greene attacked Shakespeare indirectly in his article, none of his contemporaries except Greene spoke ill of him. He behaved himself and had a touch of humanity in his words and behavior. The contemporaries who knew him complimented him using the word “gentle.” Apart from his kind nature, he had a rational and practical attitude. While he worked as a dramatist in London, he did not live a dissipated life. On the contrary, he managed his property and increased it successfully. As a result, he became the owner of a mansion, The New Place, and a rich man possessing the large farmland at Stratford-upon-Avon. On this ground, Shakespeare seems to have been a kind, ‘gentle,’ and sociable person, and besides a man of complex personality with a rational and practical attitude.

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• 강평순 [ Kang,Pyung Soon | 세명대학교 ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810