In London, England.
He was an actor so he wrote plays to act in, to make a living.
a story writer
No, Shakespeare followed the Elizabethan structure of a FIVE act play. Almost all Elizabethan plays are divided into five acts, including Shakespeare's.
In printed editions of Shakespeare's plays, the fifth act is the last act, but Shakespeare did not write in that form. His basic unit of composition was the scene. His scripts resembled modern film scripts in that respect. They were written without regard to acts.
Hamlet!
Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act III Scene I.
We don't know when Shakespeare started writing poetry; it may have been before he was involved with the theatre. But it is unlikely that he would have started writing plays before he understood the practical requirements of theatre, which he could only have learned by being an actor.
It is the first act in a play named Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare.
Margaret Hughes
The quotation "To be or not to be" is from Act III, Scene I of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
It occurs in Act 1.
Act III. But that is only because "climax" is defined as "Act III of a Shakespearean play" in the Freytag Pyramid theory of the structure of a Shakespeare play.