What made William shakespeare plays stand out the others?

Answer 1

William Shakespeare's writing is not so much unique as it is superior. There were many other playwrights writing plays at that time in a similar style, and many of them are very good indeed but none of them is quite as good as Shakespeare. Shakespeare also wrote poetry using forms which were quite common in his day, but they are better than most of the other poetry being written at the time (Spenser and Marlowe wrote some equally effective verse.)

Answer 2

To answer that, your best bet is to watch (or more likely read) plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries. Thomas Kyd could write a fast-paced action play: The Spanish Tragedy is great. Christopher Marlowe wrote terrific poetry, as witness his Doctor Faustus. Webster wrote some complex and doomed characters (female ones as well) in The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi. Thomas Dekker created sympathetic lower-class characters in The Shoemaker's Holiday. Shakespeare did all these things, and better. In addition, compared to most of what Ben Jonson wrote, and a lot of what Middleton, Dekker and Beaumont and Fletcher were on about, Shakespeare chose plots which were more like legends or folktales than comments on then-contemporary issues. Shakespeare does occasionally make a topical remark (the passage about the child actors in Hamlet and the reference to equivocators in Macbeth are both topical) but something like Volpone is so full of topical jokes that it is no longer comprehensible, since their subject matter is ephemeral and has long passed into obscurity. Shakespeare chose themes which are "not of an age, but for all time."

Answer 3

Well, he was an extremely artistic person.

He done art, wrote plays and he is unique because he could write such amazing plays...I think :D