His plays were written in the 1500-1600s in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. People are not sure of the exact dates. The earliest dates given are in about 1588 and the latest in 1614. Some plays we know were written before 1598 because a guy called Francis Meres made an incomplete list of them at that time. Sometimes we know because they were printed and we know the date. Sometimes we have a record of someone going to see the play. Usually these mean that we can say something like "We know that Romeo and Juliet was not written after 1597". Sometimes there is a reference to a current event which means that the play was not written before the event--the success of the Children's companies which is referred to in Hamlet for example.
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.
William Shakespeare's plays are categorized as Histories, Comedies, and Tragedies.ComediesThe Tempest *The Two Gentlemen of VeronaThe Merry Wives of WindsorMeasure for Measure **The Comedy of ErrorsMuch Ado About NothingLove's Labour's LostA Midsummer Night's DreamThe Merchant of Venice **As You Like ItThe Taming of the ShrewAll's Well That Ends Well**Twelfth Night or What You WillThe Winter's Tale *Pericles, Prince of Tyre * (not included in the First Folio)The Two Noble Kinsmen * (written jointly with John Fletcher, not included in the First Folio)HistoriesKing JohnRichard IIHenry IV, part 1Henry IV, part 2Henry VHenry VI, part 1Henry VI, part 2Henry VI, part 3Richard IIIHenry VIII (written jointly with John Fletcher)TragediesTroilus and CressidaCoriolanusTitus AndronicusRomeo and JulietTimon of AthensJulius CaesarMacbethHamletKing LearOthelloAntony and CleopatraCymbeline (often classed as a comedy today)
I'd say the gravedigger. Nothing much seems to bother him.
Somewhere around half of Shakespeare's plays were written after Julius Caesar. We cannot say which one was immediately afterwards, because we have no hard evidence of which plays were written when. Henry V is a possibility, although many scholars would reverse the plays and have Caesar follow Henry.
"Brevity is the soul of wit," and "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" are different quotations from Shakespeare's plays
Shakespeare did not say the quotations attributed to him, he wrote them in his plays so in answer to your question we don't know and words that came from his mouth but many phrases used today that were written in his plays. P.S. You have spelt quotations wrongly and Shakespeare is a name so should have a CAPITAL LETTER. I get what your trying to ask but it doesn't make sense. A quotation is not a quotation until someone repeats it and so he would not have said quotations.
Like all plays, they contain dialogue for the actors to say, and stage directions.
Read any or all of his plays and then you may choose your own.
All of the evidence we have goes to say that he did. That is to say, all of the plays were published either without an author's name or with Shakespeare's name on them, and never with anyone else's name. They were exclusively performed by theatrical companies of which the actor William Shakespeare was a member, and were published by members of that company. Records of the same plays being played at court and elsewhere credit William Shakespeare with having written them. And never anyone else. On the other hand there is no evidence that anyone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford, the actor with the King's Men, wrote those plays. Nobody ever credits them to anyone else. There was nobody else by the name of William Shakespeare that we know of and nobody else called Shakespeare who was a writer. People did not write plays under a pseudonym in those days, and nobody at that time ever suggested that "William Shakespeare" was a pseudonym. You may say that is not absolute proof. Perhaps not, but absolute proof is not required for anything which we regularly accept as true. The proof that Shakespeare did indeed write what he is credited with is more than sufficient for us to accept it as fact.
When people say Shakespeare they mean William Shakespeare the playwright. There was only ever one of him.
He didn't. Shakespeare never talked about his life.
There is no evidence that William Shakespeare engaged in any sports. He might have done, but there is no reason to say so.
No they are not the same. However, many researches and theories say that Francis Bacon, who wrote poetry, philosophy and advances scientific theories, used to write shakespeare's plays.
There are some six surviving specimens of Shakespeare's signature. They are all spelt differently, and none of them say "William Shakespeare." At least one gives his first name as "Guillome", which is a version of William. However, he is now almost universally known as "William Shakespeare."
I say nay
"The Taming of the Shrew " is a play by William Shakespeare, it was also made into a movie.