William Shakespeare's plays are commonly categorised as Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. These categories were given in the first, official published versions of the plays known as "The First Folio" published some years after his death.
The Histories were:
King John,
Richard II,
Henry IV part 1,
Henry IV part 2,
Henry V,
Henry VI part 1,
Henry VI part 2,
Henry VI part 3,
Richard III and
They are all based on the lives of English Kings and apart from the first and last, describe the events in English History leading up to, during and the end of The Wars of the Roses.
Shakespeare wrote ten history plays, called King John, Richard II, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, Henry V, Henry VI Part I, Henry VI Part II, Henry VI Part III, Richard III and Henry VIII. Some people think he may have written a historical play called Edward III early in his career, but most people think that was someone else (maybe George Peele).
The "Histories" are plays based on English post-1066 history, and so do not include the plays about Roman or Scottish history, or those based on the legendary English kings Cymbeline and Lear. There are 10 of these, generally named after the kings whose reigns are involved, although these kings may not be the main character in the play. The 10 histories are King John, Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, Henry VI Part 1, Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3, Richard III, Henry VIII. They were not, of course, written in that order.
Since you are asking this in the category 'Shakespeare': he wrote tragedies (10), histories (10), romances (5) and comedies (13).
William Shakespeare died in 1616.
No. King Lear is play by William Shakespeare.
Traditionally, his plays have been put into the categories of Histories (stories taken from English history), Tragedies (stories that end badly for the main characters), and Comedies (stories which end well for the main characters). Sometimes people invent new categories for the plays which do not fit into those three. It's also fair to say that Shakespeare's plays do not as a rule have realistic dialogue; the characters speak often in heightened poetic dialogue. Nor are the plots naturalistic--some are fantasies, and others have a folk-tale quality.
The Stratfordian argument is that William Shakespeare wrote the majority of the plays and sonnets in his repertoire. The Anti-Stratfordian argument is that he did not write what he was associated with but an aristocrat did instead.
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other then the 36 plays, the first historical evidence of pornographic stories was written by william shakespear
William Shakespeare wrote 38 plays. They are divided into comedies, histories and tragedies. See the related question for a full list of his plays.
There is quite a bit of debate regarding whether or not Shakespear wrote all of his plays in his lifetime. There is no real record of the writing of the plays other than the fact that the plays exist. No one really knows if Shakespear actually wrote all of them himself.
Ten of Shakespeare's plays are categorized as histories.
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The shakespearian theatre "The Globe Theatre" is in Bankside,London SE1.It is an exact replica of the original Elizabethan open-air theatre where William Shakespear put on his plays.
Is this a question? William Shakespeare did write his plays.
If we divide Shakespeare's plays into comedies, histories and tragedies, the comedies outnumber the others almost two to one. There are ten histories and ten tragedies and eighteen comedies.
It was his job, or one of his jobs. Shakespeare was paid to write plays.
You might think that William Shakespeare mainly wrote tragedies because he is most famous for his tragedies, but actually he wrote almost twice as many comedies (18) as tragedies (10) and histories (10).
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