Shakespeare to Aristotlesm Poetics

Since plays first began, writers sought a way of formulating sequences of events into an order which brings about meaning to the reader. Over time, many writers have come and gone, some more influential than others, but a set of rules or standards that probably stick out into the minds of all English majors are the Poetics of Aristotle. They served as guidelines in our history to manufacture the “ideal narrative” in which everyone could follow, similar to what we now refer to in the present day as a “formula for success”. These Poetics were back then a way of giving your audience that meaning and fulfillment that everyone enjoyed by hitting on each point directly and at the end leaving the audience or reader with a clear theme. With that established, there was not much room for anything else, that is until a very creative mind came along and changed the meaning of a playwright as people knew it.
William Shakespeare began his own era of literature which included in a lot o...