Most people felt that "King John" and "Timon Of Athens" were inferior to some of his greater works.
the queen loved shakespeares plays alot and many people did and still do
Very smelly. People did not often take baths back then and the plays were three hours long, with no intermissions and no bathrooms.
very frilly and/or poofy dresses
Because they are darn good plays, that's why. They are extremely entertaining, even if what you really want to see are swordfights and people having their hands cut off.
Shakespeare creates a unique atmosphere for each one of his plays.
It was pretty bare and unencumbered by scenery. Modern productions of the plays tend to look the same way.
Because it is and has always been extremely entertaining.
All of the plays called histories are about the Kings of England and the political events of their reign, although some of the kings, like Henry IV and Henry IV, are not major characters in the plays that bear their names.
Your best bet would be Hamlet, which reads like a string of famous quotations, Julius Caesar also has a lot.
It depends what you think is distasteful. Did Shakespeare make dirty jokes? Absolutely. Some plays, like Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida, have more than others.
Lot's of Shakespear's plays where played It was built in the year of 1598 and the location was the London's Bank side district. It was very big and wide.
An awful lot of men have played in Shakespeare's plays in the last 400 years. Some have been good, some indifferent, some awful. And for the first 300 or so of those 400 years we only have descriptions of those actors to decide whether they might have been good or not. A lot of people liked Garrick, but who knows what his performance was like?