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Rumor is Shakespeare did not write his own plays published under his name they say he had help writing them.
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Who are the 3 candidates who were thought to have written Shakespeares plays?
Here are the three most common candidates for writing Shakespeare's plays apart from Shakespeare, who is the clear front-runner: Francis Bacon-University Educated dude who publicly said he hated plays and the theatre and wrote only turgid academic treatises. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who published a few insipid works in his own name. Nobody can explain why he would choose to have all of his most brilliant work published under someone else's name. Christopher Marlowe, who, if he was Shakespeare, was writing plays twenty years after his death for some reason.
What Two monarchs did Shakespeare live under what was each period call?
He lived and his plays were performed under King James I and Queen Elizabeth I.
Did William Shakespeare publish his sonnets?
Some people say that he did, some people say not. But the pure evidence is unknown, like Shakespeare's life himself, he was very private so we don't have alot of evidence to say. It's unlikely that Shakespeare himself had any of his own plays published for the simple fact that it was expensive and there would have been no reason to. People didn't publish things back then unless there was a strong market for something, particularly playwrights - publishing a play meant that it could be performed without you. Plays generally weren't extensively read or printed back then, they existed mostly as performance. It was only people who had a real passion for theatre that would buy a printed play in quarto or octavo form. Shakespeare's first folio was only the second time an English playwright had his plays published in folio (the most expensive way to print) ever - and that was after he was dead. Publishing was a VERY expensive and time consuming process. Some of the earlier quartos (the "bad" quartos) that were printed are, in many opinions, constructed from the memories of actors who performed in Shakespeare's plays. They were printed so that the plays could be taken out with acting troupes who were forced to ply their trade abroad when the theatres closed due to plague. Most of Shakespeare's plays were published for the first time in 1623 when William Jaggard and Edward Blount managed to get the rights (there were copyrights of sorts back then, though they mostly applied to the ownership of the manuscripts at that point) and the help of those who knew and worked with Shakespeare. They were only published after it was clear that Shakespeare would remain a legend after his death.
Shakespeare invent the play Romeo and Juliet?
Shakespeare certainly wrote the play Romeo and Juliet, unless you subscribe to the theory that someone else wrote all of his plays under his name. Shakespeare did not invent the plot of Romeo and Juliet, but then Shakespeare did not invent any of his plots.
Who preserved Shakespeare's plays?
The first, official compilation of Shakespeare's plays was a volume entitled Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.It was compiled and published in 1623, seven year after Shakespeare's death, by his colleagues in the King's Men acting company, John Hemmings and William Cordell. It containesd 36 of the plays and is alsio known as The First Folio.
Were the plays named as Shakespeare's actually written by him?
Actually, it's virtually certain that they were. The plays were all published, sometimes many times, with his name on the cover, and never with anyone else's name on them. There is no evidence of anyone ever publishing plays at that time under a pseudonym, and nobody in the history of literature has published plays where a well-known real person is identified as the author when that person was not the author. Shakespeare was a well-known actor in the London of the day; the plays were performed exclusively by the company he was known to have belonged to, and not by any other company. The facts as we know them are completely consistent with Shakespeare being the author of his plays.
Who are the 3 candidates who were thought to have written Shakespeares plays?
Here are the three most common candidates for writing Shakespeare's plays apart from Shakespeare, who is the clear front-runner: Francis Bacon-University Educated dude who publicly said he hated plays and the theatre and wrote only turgid academic treatises. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who published a few insipid works in his own name. Nobody can explain why he would choose to have all of his most brilliant work published under someone else's name. Christopher Marlowe, who, if he was Shakespeare, was writing plays twenty years after his death for some reason.
Did Shakespeare actually write the plays that everyone thinks he did?
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.
What Two monarchs did Shakespeare live under what was each period call?
He lived and his plays were performed under King James I and Queen Elizabeth I.
Did William Shakespeare publish his sonnets?
Some people say that he did, some people say not. But the pure evidence is unknown, like Shakespeare's life himself, he was very private so we don't have alot of evidence to say. It's unlikely that Shakespeare himself had any of his own plays published for the simple fact that it was expensive and there would have been no reason to. People didn't publish things back then unless there was a strong market for something, particularly playwrights - publishing a play meant that it could be performed without you. Plays generally weren't extensively read or printed back then, they existed mostly as performance. It was only people who had a real passion for theatre that would buy a printed play in quarto or octavo form. Shakespeare's first folio was only the second time an English playwright had his plays published in folio (the most expensive way to print) ever - and that was after he was dead. Publishing was a VERY expensive and time consuming process. Some of the earlier quartos (the "bad" quartos) that were printed are, in many opinions, constructed from the memories of actors who performed in Shakespeare's plays. They were printed so that the plays could be taken out with acting troupes who were forced to ply their trade abroad when the theatres closed due to plague. Most of Shakespeare's plays were published for the first time in 1623 when William Jaggard and Edward Blount managed to get the rights (there were copyrights of sorts back then, though they mostly applied to the ownership of the manuscripts at that point) and the help of those who knew and worked with Shakespeare. They were only published after it was clear that Shakespeare would remain a legend after his death.
What is the anthology of the sonnets of Shakespeare?
It was originally called "Shakespeare's Sonnets" and was first published in 1609. It has since been reprinted many times, sometimes under the same title, and sometimes as part of a "Collected Works" anthology.
What helps to explain why it is difficult to determine authorship of some works attributed to shakespeare?
Many plays in Shakespeare's day were published without any information about the author whatsoever. They were anonymous. This is true of Shakespeare's own plays early in his career. But even if they were published anonymously, they still had to be written by someone, and it is a great game among academics to try to guess the author. In some cases, Edward III for example, Shakespeare has been proposed as the author. But the only kind of evidence that can be advanced in support of this kind of claim is data about spelling or word choice which is frequently inconclusive, and ideas about style which are quite subjective. Before word counting became the rage (it was not feasible without computers), arguments about authorship of anonymous plays were totally based on style and, though heated, were not very helpful.Even those plays which were printed with Shakespeare's name on them are still up for scrutiny. Some are generally considered to be by someone else, others are generally thought to be Shakespeare's. For many years in the Victorian era and after, scholars denied that the play Titus Andronicus was written by Shakespeare, because they didn't like how gory and over-the-top it was. And this is one of the plays which appeared in the First Folio and a bunch of quartos under Shakespeare's name, and is associated with his company in Henslowe's Diary, for example.
Shakespeare invent the play Romeo and Juliet?
Shakespeare certainly wrote the play Romeo and Juliet, unless you subscribe to the theory that someone else wrote all of his plays under his name. Shakespeare did not invent the plot of Romeo and Juliet, but then Shakespeare did not invent any of his plots.
What are the four major poems attributed to Shakespeare other than the sonnets?
Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece of course were published under Shakespeare's name and were very popular. Other poems of note are The Phoenix and the Turtle and A Lover's Complaint.
Did queen elizabeth like the theatre?
yes she enjoyed it. the first theater was built under her reign(the Globe) and she had Shakespeare's plays performed there.
Who preserved Shakespeare's plays?
The first, official compilation of Shakespeare's plays was a volume entitled Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.It was compiled and published in 1623, seven year after Shakespeare's death, by his colleagues in the King's Men acting company, John Hemmings and William Cordell. It containesd 36 of the plays and is alsio known as The First Folio.
In how many acts were Shakespeare's plays written?
Shakespeare wrote more than five plays, MANY more. Some of his plays include "Julius Caesar," "Hamlet," "Romeo and Juliet," "King Lear," "As You Like It," "Macbeth," "The Merchant of Venice," and many more.
