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Before Shakespeare began writing plays he was an actor.

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What did shakespeare do before he began writing and acting in plays?

Nobody knows this.


Shakespeare began his career writing interludes?

We don't know what Shakespeare wrote at the start of his writing career. We first hear of him as a writer after he had written some of his plays.


Which Shakespeare plays come out in 1550?

None. This was fourteen years before Shakespeare was born. They weren't even writing plays until the 1560s.


How old was William shakespeare when he started writing playscripts?

We know that Shakespeare started writing plays before 1592 when he was 28. It is not clear just exactly how soon before that date he started.


What style of writing did shakespeare write in?

Shakespeare wrote in poetry, even when he was writing plays.


When Shakespeare was not writing plays what did he do?

romeo and Juliet


What was unique about william Shakespeare's plays?

They are not really unique. There are many many plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, many of which are better than the worst of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare was just one of a large number of people writing plays. But what history has shown is that Shakespeare, when he was on his game, was a far better playwright than any of his contemporaries and anyone else before or since. He was not unique, but he was and is the best.


Would Shakespeare still be writing plays if he was alive?

It is likely that Shakespeare would not only be writing plays, but screenplays, teleplays, and any other form of drama.


Was William Shakespeare the oldest playwright?

No. Lots of people wrote plays before Shakespeare. The ancient Greeks were writing plays 2300 years ago. The Romans were writing them 2000 years ago. English playwriting developed from indigenous traditions of Miracle and Morality plays, influenced by the Roman plays of Seneca and Terence. The earliest Tudor plays (Ralph Roister Doister, Gammer Gurton's Needle, Gorboduc) were written when Shakespeare was a child. The most popular Tudor Play, Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, was written before Shakespeare had even started writing and continued to be popular for decades thereafter.


What is the form of writing Shakespeare uses for his plays?

it is the nothingness


What was Shakespeare good at?

He was good at writing Plays and poems.


What did Shakespeare do before he became a playwright?

He probably started acting before he started writing plays. He published some poetry (Venus and Adonis) pretty early in his career so he may have been writing other things before he got going on plays.