Shakespeare's plays have always enjoyed a certain amount of popularity. They were very successful in the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre for which they were written. In the Restoration period they were thought of as old-fashioned, and in the eighteenth century they survived largely in adaptations which made them conform to the then current style. The original plays were thought of as crude. The Romantics of the nineteenth century began to idolize Shakespeare, creating what Bernard Shaw called Bardolatry. Over the century, producers turned more and more to the original scripts. In both the twentieth and twenty-first century Shakespeare's plays remain enormously popular, being constantly performed and appreciated everywhere in the world.
He was certainly well-known around London, especially among the theatre crowd. He was noted as an actor in the diaries of a number of contemporaries, including John Davies of Hereford. He was also praised as a writer by Francis Meres and the authors of the Parnassus plays. His reputation as a writer became great enough that his name was attached to works he had not written, in order to sell them more effectively.
Because he wrote and produced plays that many people liked.
He was relatively popular during his life, yes, but he is much more popular now than he was then.
yes William Shakespeare was popular during his lifetime. His plays were commercial successes and were written for his Globe Theater. As a person, he kept a low profile.
Yes, Shakespeare was a popular playwright back then. He was not the only one by any means, but his plays helped make his acting company the best and most famous in the country.
yes he was shakespeare!
Very!!!
yes he was
Probably no. 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day."
His work has been passed down through the years. People still read and listen to Shakespeare because his poetry is more pure then today's poetry.
Francesco Petrarca, better known as Petrarch.
The kind of friendship that was a popular theme for Shakespeare's plays was romantic friendship.
hamlet
I didn't know he started. Smoking was a new thing in Shakespeare's day, and most popular among the rich, who could afford it.
Probably no. 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day."
Shakespeare was the most successful playwright of his day, and a popular sonneteer. Others copied him, and some attributed plays to him just to lure audiences into the theater.
His work has been passed down through the years. People still read and listen to Shakespeare because his poetry is more pure then today's poetry.
Francesco Petrarca, better known as Petrarch.
Very well. Shakespeare was a popular playwright in his day. Some of his competitors (e.g. Greene) sneered at him for his lack of education, but many people think this was just jealousy.
The kind of friendship that was a popular theme for Shakespeare's plays was romantic friendship.
William Shakespeare did not have anything to do with Valentine's Day.
Globe
He had a big Johnson
hamlet
maybe