The general consensus is that Shakespeare wrote thirty-seven plays (see list below). However, no one can know for certain because of the inexact documentation at the time the plays were first being organized and published. If we include The Two Noble Kinsmen and two lost plays attributed to ...
While Shakespeare wrote comedies immediately following his son's death, a few years later he would write a number of tragedies. Perhaps in the few years that followed the boy's death, he had time to truly process the depth of his grief and pour them into his masterful dramas....
Why does Shakespeare structure The Taming of the Shrew as a frame play? Why did Shakespeare write Richard II? Why did Othello strip Cassio of his rank? Why is Hamlet so famous as a play? Why is Hamlet sent to England? Why did Shakespeare make Brutus the protagonist in Julius Caesar?
In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar there is major difference between two of the characters Brutus and Mark Antony Brutus was very honorable and Antony was very persuasive. When Brutus spoke at Caesar’s funeral he appealed to the people’s logic and Antony spoke to the emotions of th...
Why did Shakespeare write Coriolanus? Why did Thomas Mann write Death in Venice? Why does Othello not investigate Iago's accusations? Why did Shakespeare make Julius Caesar nicer than he was? Why was Coriolanus exiled from Rome in Coriolanus?
Question: What age did Shakespeare leave school? Schools in the 1500's: In the 1500's schools were only for boys and went Monday through Saturday from about 6:00 AM until 6:00 PM. The parents had to pay in order for their sons to attend school. ...
How many histories did William Shakespeare write? Types of Shakespearean Plays: William Shakespeare wrote three types of plays: comedies, histories, and tragedies. In all, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays throughout his illustrious career. Answer and Explanation: ...
Most of the other plays are seriously political. Shakespeare lived in very dangerous times – in times when to criticise powerful rulers could mean imprisonment at the very least and execution at worst. But think about it: how can you write something on a political theme without doing criticisin...
It is a pity that the editors of the First Folio thought it necessary to omit the entire passage¹, possibly believing that the lines were too similar to those found in Shakespeare'sJulius Caesar: And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead; ...
Why was William Shakespeare so popular during the Renaissance? Why did Stoppard write "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"? Why was language so important in Shakespeare plays? Why does Hamlet act mad? Why does Shakespeare use prose in Julius Caesar?