Did shakespeare only write tragedies

Answer 1

William Shakespeare, the oldest surviving son and the third child of eight, was an English poet and a playwright and is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He is also known as England's national poet or the "Bard of Avon" or just "The Bard". He has written 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. Today, his work has been translated into every major living language and have been peformed by a lot of playwright today, often as a basis or base for their own plays. He married a woman named Anne Hathaway at the age of 18 and had three children: his daughter Susanna, and twins, a son Hamnet and a daughter Judith. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried on the 11th of August, 1596. William Shakespeare disappeared off the records of many books after the birth of his twin children, seeing as no one was there to record their lives at that time. Scholars called this period, Shakespeare's "lost years". There were few historical traces of Shakespeare until he appeared as mentioned as part of a London theatre in 1592. There were rumors that the reason for Shakespeare's "lost years" was because he had been escaping town for London to escape prosecution for deer poaching. In response to the question, Shakespeare really did write his plays. It's not exactly known where or when he began to write, but records show that his work began to appear on stage by 1592. He was well known in London for his plays that he was even attacked in the press by the playwright Robert Greene. As Shakespeare grew older, he began to write fewer and fewer plays. By 1613, there were no plays that were attributed to him that appeared on stage afterwards. His last three plays were works in collaboration with John Fletcher, who succeeded him a playwright for the King's Men. There have also been rumors and conspiracy theories about this very question, and there have been many stories written based on the theory that Shakespeare, in fact, did not write his plays. Over the years folks have ranged from crediting Shakespeare with doing all the work, to claiming that Roger Bacon wrote them and used the nom de plume of Shakespeare, to claiming that Shakespeare was the name used by a consortium of writers. Like every good conspiracy theory nobody can prove anything, though a lot of people have claimed to know the secret truths. The conspiracy believers claim to have identified codes and cryptic clues in Shakespeare's works and his tombstone, similarities to works by other writers. They study his life indicating that he couldn't have put out this much work or that he wouldn't be familiar enough with language, court dealings or history to provide the content and context of his plays and sonnets. Although this notion is generally rejected in academic circles, some people do not believe Shakespeare wrote some or all of the works attributed to him. Those disbelievers included Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Sigmund Freud. Some of the people suggested as "real" authors were Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and even Queen Elizabeth. Another question is whether Shakespeare himself wrote every word of his plays, since dramatists used to collaborate in those times. This is still a matter of academic research and does not apply to Shakespeare alone.

Answer 2

Um no he wrote sonnets as well. I'm not sure if he wrote other stuff. Oh wait he wrote poems for people for valentines day to give to their significant other I think. But he wrote poems and plays as well as acting in his plays.

Answer 3

All of the real historical evidence supports the theory that William Shakespeare of Stratford is the author of the plays ascribed to him. And there is a lot of such evidence, much more than there is for most of Shakespeare's contemporaries. There are some interesting documentaries on the web produced by those people who maintain that William Shakespeare did in fact not write his plays, but they do frequently present the evidence on the matter inaccurately. The viewer is advised to balance such presentations with those prepared by supporters of the theory that Shakespeare really wrote Shakespeare.

The most important thing to bear in mind is the burden of proof. The proper way to approach any historical issue is to say, "Based on the evidence which we have on hand, is this contention (that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare) more likely than not?" There is a pile of contemporary documentary evidence which says that the author of the plays was someone called William Shakespeare (spelled in various interesting ways). There is no evidence that the author of the plays was anyone else. None. Which do you think is more likely?

Answer 4

Not all by himself; he collaborated with others on some of them. His main collaborator was the man groomed as his replacement, John Fletcher. Shakespeare and Fletcher are both credited on the title page of The Two Noble Kinsmen, and it is believed that they also collaborated on Pericles and Henry VIII, and possibly the missing play Cardenio. Thomas Middleton tarted up Macbeth with some very commercial song-and-dance numbers, and Shakespeare may have worked with Thomas Nashe on Henry VI Part 1.

We can say with certainty that Shakespeare wrote at least part of all 38 plays ascribed to him.

Answer 5

Absolutely not! Only 10 of his plays are regularly classified as tragedies, which is about 26% of his total output. The problem is that schools really like to teach the tragedies, so they end up being the best known. But you should get hold of the following movies and watch them. They are all by Shakespeare and are not tragedies: Henry V starring Kenneth Branagh, 1989; Much Ado About Nothing starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, 1994; Twelfth Night starring Helena Bonham Carter, 1995; A Midsummer Night's Dream starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kevin Klein, 1999; The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino, 2004; The Tempest starring Helen Mirren, 2010.

Answer 6

Shakespeare wrote several types of plays.

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Answer 7

Yes, he wrote poetry also.

Answer 8

He was an actor as well as a playwright.