How many books did William Shakespeare write?

Answer 1

Shakspeare wrote 37 or 38 plays and 154 sonnets all together, plus some other poetry. How many books that comes to depends on how you bundle them together. None of it (except his two long poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece) was intended to be published at all, and was published by other people at various times and in various bundles. He only wrote two things, the two long poems, which were intended as books.
He didn't write books.

Answer 2

This is a good question and hard to answer. It is hard to answer because a lot of Shakespeare's plays are in verse and so parts of them can easily be set to music, and lists of selections of lyrics rarely disctinguish between those lyrics which Shakespeare intended to be set to music and those which he did not. But almost all of his plays contain song lyrics which are intended to be sung, especially the comedies. Some of the most famous include "Willow, Willow" from Othello, "Under the Greenwood Tree" from As You Like It, a play which includes lyrics to six songs, "Full Fathom Five" from The Tempest, "Who is Sylvia?" from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, "Tell me where is Fancy Bred" from the Merchant of Venice, "Sigh no more, ladies" from Much Ado About Nothing, "When I was and a little tiny boy" from Twelfth Night, a song which is parodied by the Fool in King Lear, "Come away, come away death" from Twelfth Night also (the same play contains a third hit lyric and a number of short lyrics also), and Ophelia's songs in her mad scenes in Hamlet. Maybe there are fifty in all, but this is an estimate.

Answer 3

William Shakespeare did not write stories. He wrote plays, which you could see acted out on stage, and poetry. Some of his poetry (like Venus and Adonis and Rape of Lucrece) tell stories, and some (like the sonnets) do not. The plays, of course, also tell stories, sometimes more than one at a time, in a dramatic way. Shakespeare did not invent most of these stories; he got them from books he had read, or plays he had seen.

What is great about Shakespeare is not the stories he told but the way he told them--his use of language and dramatic structure.

Answer 4

Difficult to say exactly, but about 38 plays, 154 sonnets and 5 other poems, or 197 works altogether. It's difficult because some people doubt the authenticity of some of those works, or claim authenticity for other ones, and sometimes they were published together and the collections have a separate name. On the other hand, sometimes parts of the plays are cut out and published as if they were separate works.

Answer 5

He wrote a hundred and fifty-four sonnets and three narrative poems for publications. He did not write any books as such. He is credited with thirty-six plays, though some of them are collaborations with other playwrights, and he is known to have contributed to Sir Thomas More and other plays as a collaborator, but the plays were not written for publication. They were written to be performed. Publication followed the productions, usually when the theaters were closed for plague, to bring in needed income due to the closure of the playhouses. The first authorized publications of the plays did not come until after his death. The First Folio contains the thirty-six recognized plays.

Answer 6

He wrote: 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and many other poems.

Answer 7

0 William Shakespear wrote plays not books

Answer 8

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