Nobody. And here is why: Shakespeare did not publish his plays. About half of them were published after his death. Those ones which were printed during his lifetime were published by publishers without any consultation from Shakespeare. In some cases, it is thought, people wrote down the plays from memory and sold them to the publishers, in others, various playing companies, but especially the Lord Chamberlain's Men, sold old scripts that were hanging around the playhouse.
He didn't. Shakespeare never wrote a novel in his life. I'm serious. He wrote plays and poetry, and didn't even publish the plays himself.
he wrote books like romeo and juliet and hamlet. His autograph could sell for 5,000,000 dollars and alot of ppl went to shakespeare play, hope dat helped (-=
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Two actors from his company, John Heminge and Henry Condell.
Because Shakespeare never published his own work when he was alive. So when he died two of his theatre friends finally decided to publish them. These first published plays are found in whats called the First Folio.
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, 28 plays and two long poems (maybe 3, if you count the Turtle and the Phoenix)
All of them. That's why they were able to put out a collected plays volume called the First Folio seven years after Shakespeare died. The King's Men owned the scripts and the right to publish them; Shakespeare did not.
Two of Shakespeare's actor friends, John Heminges and Henry Condell
Henry Condell was one of the actors in The King's Men, one of Shakespeare's closest friends and one of the two men who determined to publish all of Shakespeare's plays in one volume after he died.
No copyright law. In such a situation, you publish a play, any fool can perform it. You only publish when there's more money to be made from publication than performance.
Shakespeare only wrote two things which he intended to publish as a book: the long poems Venus and Adonis. He also wrote sonnets which he later decided to publish as a book. But the work for which he is most famous, his plays, were not written as books at all: they are meant to be watched, not read.
We have no record of what Shakespeare thought of anything, so we really cannot tell if he was proud of his work or not. The plays helped to put food on the table which of course was always a good point.