\paperw5085 \margr0\margl0\ATXph16380 \plain \fs20 \pard\tx3255\tx6525\tx9780\ATXts240\ATXbrdr0 \f1 \fs22 Late in the 16th century Shakespeare again turned to tragedy. \i Julius
Caesar\i0 was performed in 1599, and in 1602 \i Hamlet \i0 was entered in the register of the StationerÆs Company, the body that controlled all printed publications. Two years later \i Othello\i0 received its first performance, though the play was no
t published until 1622. Then in 1605 \i King Lear\i0 appeared in its earliest version, followed the next year by \i Macbeth\i0 . In\ATXnt901 all these works\ATXnt0 Shakespeare managed to analyse and illustrate the passions that determine manÆs desti
ny: jealousy, greed, the thirst for power, excessive pride. In so doing he not only created dramas of great insight, but also some superbly moving blank verse, much of which has shaped our later perception and use of the English language. \par
