William Shakespeare anybody?

Question

For Shakespeare lovers and for people with information! [:

- How many plays did he write?
- How were his plays received at the time?
- How were the plays performed?
- Where were they performed?
- What else did he write?

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Answer any of the few.
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Answer 1

He wrote about thirty-eight plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems

By late 1594 Shakespeare was an actor, writer and part-owner of a playing company, known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men — the company took its name, like others of the period, from its aristocratic sponsor, in this case the Lord Chamberlain. The group became popular enough that after the death of Elizabeth I and the coronation of James I (1603), the new monarch adopted the company and it became known as the King's Men.

By 1596 Shakespeare had moved to the parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, and by 1598 he appeared at the top of a list of actors in Every Man in His Humour written by Ben Jonson. Also by 1598 his name began to appear on the title pages of his plays, presumably as a selling point.

He appears to have moved across the Thames River to Southwark sometime around 1599. By 1604, he had moved again, north of the river, where he lodged just north of St Paul's Cathedral with a Huguenot family named Mountjoy. His residence there is worth noting because he helped arrange a marriage between the Mountjoys' daughter and their apprentice Stephen Bellott. Bellott later sued his father-in-law for defaulting on part of the promised dowry, and Shakespeare was called as a witness.

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Answer 2

Shakespeare performed with an acting troupe originally called the Lord Chamberlain's Men. They later changed their name to The King's Men. His plays were very popular to the audiences of the time (those audiences were a combination of nobility and peasants so it was difficult to appeal to both). The plays were performed for private audiences of nobility as well as in an open-air theater called the globe. All of his plays were performed without women, so men played all the female roles. I don't know how many plays he wrote, but he also wrote poetry (in fact all his plays are in poetic form).

Answer 3

He wrote many plays all of which were destroyed in the fire at the Globe Theater in London where his plays were performed and well accepted by the audiences of his day. He basically wrote three types of plays: comedies (MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT DREAM, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, TWELFTH NIGHT), tragedies (ROMEO AND JULIET, MACBETH, KING LEAR, HAMLET), and histories (HENRY THE 4TH, RICHARD THE THIRD, HENRY THE 6TH). He also is well-known for the many sonnets he wrote.

I hope this helps.

Answer 4

I believe 34 plays (1st being Henry the 6th and last being Henry the 8th) and 7 poems (or collection of poems)

Answer 5

is that this a trick question? i assumed all and sundry had heard of Shakespeare. yet then, I HAD theory all and sundry had additionally heard of Homer and the Illiad, yet curiously this isn't any longer real even of literature pupils.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

-38 PLAYS
-HE HAND WROTE THEM
-THEY WERE PERFOREMED BY TRAVELING ACTING TROUPES
-AT LOCL THEATERS
-154 SONNETS

look at the site, it has TONS of info.

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Answer 8

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