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How many plays write Shakespeare?
Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (38 if you count The Two Noble Kinsmen).
When did William shakespeare write the two noble kinsmen?
it was written in 1613 with fletcher who contributed a lot
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.
What was shakespeare last written play?
The Tempest is widely considered to be the last survivingplay written by William Shakespeare alone, and was performed by the King's Men in November 1611.Shakespeare also collaborated on at least two plays after this time with a man called John Fletcher; All is True (Henry VIII) (c.1613) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613-14). There is evidence to suggest they also wrote Cardenio but this script does not survive.As with so much of Shakespeare's life and works there is much that is not known. It is possible that the widely accepted chronology of his plays is not correct and possibly that there were other plays of which no record survives.ADDED: There is also some evidence that Shakespeare contributed to yet another play, Double Falsehood but that is contested.
Did william shakespeare write all the plays he was supposed to?
William Shakespeare certainly wrote plays. Some plays we know he wrote all by himself. Some we know (like The Two Noble Kinsmen) or suspect (like Pericles and Henry VIII) he wrote in collaboration with John Fletcher. But for sure he wrote at least part of the 36 plays in the first folio plus Pericles and the Two Noble Kinsmen. Beyond that we cannot be so certain. Some people claim that Shakespeare wrote Edward III, a contemporary anonymous play. Other unattributed plays of the time have from time to time been attributed to Shakespeare. We just cannot be sure. Even shortly after Shakespeare's lifetime two plays were attributed to him in 1619 which are now not believed to be his: Sir John Oldcastle and A Yorkshire Tragedy. As for the suggestion that Shakespeare wrote no plays at all, but that his plays were really written by Oxford, Bacon, Queen Elizabeth, Doctor Who or someone else, the simple answer is that such ideas are fiction.
When was William Shakespeare write his last play?
Shakespeare was around 24 when he wrote his first play so when he wrote his last play it must of been around 38. Actually it was likely in 1613 (Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen) when he was 49 that he wrote his last play.
How many scripts did William Shakespeare write?
In 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death, two of his colleagues published a collection of Shakespeare's plays containing 36 scripts, about half of which had been previously published. The play Pericles, which had been published in 1609, was soon added. Scholars now also consider Shakespeare to have been one of the authors of The Two Noble Kinsmen, which was published as written by Shakespeare and Fletcher. (Fletcher almost certainly co- wrote other plays with Shakespeare.) Then there are two titles of plays of which no copies have come down to us: Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won. So that makes forty plays altogether. There may have been more we don't know about.
Did William Shakespeare work alone?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Some scholars think that some of his early plays, such as Titus Andronicus were co-written with someone else, maybe George Peele. On the other hand, a number of his later plays appear to have been co-written with John Fletcher, who replaced Shakespeare as the main playwright for the King's Men after Shakespeare's retirement. The Two Noble Kinsmen is expressly credited to Shakespeare and Fletcher. And it's thought he was one of a group of playwrights who tried to write the play Sir Thomas More, but couldn't get it by the censors. Most of his plays he wrote by himself though.
Who did William Shakespeare write his plays with?
Shakespeare collaborated with other playwrights much less than most of his contemporaries, but some of his plays are clearly collaborations. The Two Noble Kinsmen is credited to Shakespeare and John Fletcher, and it is thought that these two collaborated on a number of Shakespeare's later plays, such as Henry VIII, Cardenio, and Pericles. It is thought that Thomas Middleton wrote the scenes in Macbeth containing the character Hecate, in order to tart the play up as a musical. Timon of Athens is also thought to be a late collaboration. At the other end of the spectrum, it is believed that other authors helped Shakespeare at the start of his career. In particular it is thought that George Peele may have written some of Titus Andronicus. It was common for inexperienced playwrights to be paired with veterans who would act as their mentors. That was probably what happened with Shakespeare and Fletcher. It is plausible that, when Shakespeare was a new playwright, he was paired with experienced dramatists as their protege while he learned he ropes.
Why do people think that Shakespeare didn't write Romeo and Juliet?
Actually, just about everyone is satisfied that Shakespeare did write Romeo and Juliet. There are reasons to believe that parts of some of his other plays (e.g. Macbeth, Pericles, The Two Noble Kinsmen) were written by other writers, and there are some plays which some people claim to have been written by Shakespeare and other people think not (e.g. Edward III, The Second Maiden's Tragedy). Romeo and Juliet does not fall into either of these categories. The only people who would think that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet are those crazies that imagine that Shakespeare never wrote anything, but that all of his works were really written by someone else and a huge conspiracy was developed to make it look like Shakespeare wrote them. The usual reason for thinking this is that Shakespeare was unquestionably a middle-class, high-school educated white man, and some people are uncomfortable with this being a description of the greatest writer ever to write in English, so they imagine that the real writer was someone more noble, more educated, more black or more female than Shakespeare was.
How many plays did Shakespeare write before he retired?
This is a harder question than you might think. Scholars agree that Shakespeare wrote in whole or in part the 37 plays in the Second Folio, and there is general agreement that he at least partly wrote The Two Noble Kinsmen. There is also evidence that he wrote other plays that have not come down to us, including Cardenio and Love's Labours Won. Finally there are plays which some people think might be by Shakespeare but others do not, like Edward III or The Second Maiden's Tale (which some scholars have suggested might really be Cardenio)
What collection of poems did Shakespeare borrow from to write A Midsummer Nights Dream?
Scholars have suggested that Spenser's Epithalamion, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the anonymous German poem Der Busant were sources for Shakespeare's play. All of these are pretty lame: the connection with Spenser is that Shakespeare appears to quote one line from Epithalamion; the connection with Chaucer is that Chaucer's knight tells the story of Bocaccio's Teseida, a story which Shakespeare and Fletcher later dramatized as The Two Noble Kinsmen, which includes the character of Theseus; Ovid is the source for the Pyramus and Thisbe story; Der Busant also has to do with someone going into a forest and going crazy.
