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What large cast plays are there?
lord of the flies shakespeare: a midsummer nights dream Any greek play ghetto
Evidence William Shakespeare wrote his plays?
His name was on the title pages of a number of plays published in his lifetime. He was described as an excellent playwright by dozens of people alive at the same time he was, who moved in the same social circles and must have known him. The connections between the plays, the Chamberlain's/King's Men, the Globe Theatre Sharers and William Shakespeare, gent. of Stratford are demonstrated by a mountain of documentary evidence. For example, Shakespeare's will leaves a bequest to the same two men (Heminges and Condell) who published the First Folio, and are named as actors in the same company as Shakespeare in payment receipts for the King's Men, who are shown on the covers of the published plays to be the only company to perform some of them, and were also the same people who owned the Globe Theatre where some people kept diaries saying that they attended performances of these same plays. All of this evidence consistently points to the same people being associated in all these endeavors and to the fact that the person credited with writing the plays is William Shakespeare, gent., of Stratford. There is no documentary evidence whatsoever that anyone other than Shakespeare wrote those plays, or that any of Shakespeare's contemporaries doubted for one moment that Shakespeare was the author.
What did William Shakespeare write?
William Shakespeare wrote plays, narrative poems and a particular type of poem called sonnets. William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, 2 poetic narratives with erotic themes (The Rape of Lucrece, and Venus and Adonis), and at least two other poems . He wrote 38 plays at least. It has been suggested, without any proof whatsoever, that the Bard may have functioned as an advisor in the language editing-grammatical aspects of the now-familiar King James Bible. Since Shakespeare was not a Biblical scholar, and knew "small Latin and less Greek" his usefulness on such a project would be minimal. This story, like the idea that he was familiar with Elizabeth I, is wishful fantasy.
Did anyone steal Shakespeare's plays?
Shakespeare is believed to have collaborated on some of his plays. He may have collaborated with Greene on early plays like Titus Andronicus, or with Fletcher on later plays such as Pericles or Henry VIII. The play The Two Noble Kinsmen is explicitly said to have been a collaboration between Shakespeare and Fletcher. Although Shakespeare apparently did write most of his plays on his own, he did not invent the stories of most of them (The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream are exceptions). He got them from older plays (Hamlet), poems (Romeo and Juliet), Italian Stories (Othello), Roman Plays (The Comedy of Errors), and history books like Holinshed's Chronicles (Henry VI) and Plutarch's Lives (Julius Caesar). Although he did not originate the stories, he used his genius to put them into unforgettable dramatic form. As for the suggestion that Shakespeare was a front man for some mysterious ghost writer like Bacon or Oxford, there is no evidence at all that such a thing happened, and considerable evidence that Shakespeare the actor and man from Stratford did in fact write at least part of the plays attributed to him.
How does Hamlet's soliloquy differ from Shakespeare's?
I don't think you understand something very basic about writers. They are not necessarily characters in the works they write. We do not worry about whether Edward loves Bella or Stephanie Meyer. We do not ask whether Obi Wan Kenobi speaks better than George Lucas. And Shakespeare does not have soliloquys, although he writes them for his characters like Hamlet. Shakespeare is not a character in any play he wrote (although he is sometimes a character in other peoples' plays, as he is in Shakespeare in Love). In any case, "Hamlet's soliloquy" is meaningless. Hamlet has five soliloquys: "O that this too too solid flesh would melt", "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I", "To be or not to be, that is the question", "Now is the very witching time of night" and "How all occasions do inform against me." Unless you specify which one you are talking about, nobody can answer your question.
Did shakespeare write any plays in 1613?
no
Were any of Shakespeare's plays hard to write?
You'd have to ask Shakespeare that one, and unfortunately you can't.
Did shakespeare write all his plays?
yes he did because he did not like any do it for him
Did Shakespeare wrote any books?
Shakespeare did not write any books. He wrote plays, and lots of poetry, but he never wrote any books.
What is the title of the work Shakespeare obtained information from to write most of his plays?
More of Shakespeare's plays are based on Holinshed's Chronicles than any other work.
When is the next Shakespeare play and what is it called?
William Shakespeare died in 1616. It is extremely unlikely that he will write any more plays.
What two plays did shakespeare continue to write in retirement?
If he was still working on writing plays, he wasn't retired. Shakespeare did not write any plays after he retired. Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen were the last plays he wrote and he wrote them just before his retirement.
Which of types of literature did William Shakespeare did not write?
He did not write any haiku, limericks or how-to instruction books. For A+ the answer is Melodramas TAO
Were any of William Shakespeare's plays real?
Shakespeare's history plays were based on real events.
What plays did Julius Caesar write?
Julius Caesar did not write any plays. He was a Roman general and statesman who lived from 100 - 44 BCE. The play "Julius Caesar" was written by William Shakespeare and is a dramatization of Caesar's assassination and its aftermath.
Why does England have Shakespeare's plays today?
Shakespeare was born in England. It wouldn't be right for any other country to have his plays.
Were any of Shakespeare's plays not liked?
Yes
