What plays did shakespeare do in 1608?

Answer 1

We don't know exactly, because nobody kept a record of when a play was written. A new play would be performed a few times and, if it was popular, might be printed. Scholars think that the following plays might have been written in 1593: The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew. Of course any one of these could just as easily have been written in 1592.

Answer 2

It is thought that the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre, first published in 1623, was written in 1608. However, it is widely considered that Pericles is not all Shakespeare's work, being written in part by a collaborator, perhaps George Wilkins.

Answer 3

The assigning of dates to the writing of Shakespeare's plays (as opposed to their performance or publication) is guesswork, influenced by the fact that the plays must have been written before they were published, known to have been performed, or mentioned or quoted from in a contemporary account. Likewise if the play contains a reference to a contemporary event, it must have been written after that event occured (but probably not that long after, since then it would no longer be topical). Such references are comparatively rare, but can be found in Henry V, Macbeth and the Tempest. Otherwise, dating Shakespeare's plays is a matter of comparing the style of the plays to others, a fairly dodgy method you must agree.

So, what did Shakespeare write in 1612? Well, it could have been the aforesaid Tempest, which appears to draw from a source available in 1610, and is known to have been performed late in 1612 or early 1613. Or Henry VIII, which was certainly performed in 1613 but could have been written the year before. The Two Noble Kinsmen, certainly written before 1614, was either slightly before or after a play by Beaumont in 1613, so could have been the year before. Cardenio (now lost) was performed in 1613 and based on Don Quixote, which appeared in translation in 1612, and so is another likely candidate.

And yet, some scholars will rule out all of these plays, claiming that the Tempest was written before 1612, and the others in 1613. Since it is all guesswork (although informed guesswork), this is entirely possible.

Answer 4

As you may know, our dating of when Shakespeare's plays were written is somewhat approximate, and since none of them were published before 1593 we cannot really rule any of them out, except Henry VI Part III which was quoted in 1592. The most likely suspects are his earliest plays: Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Comedy of Errors, Richard III and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Obviously he couldn't have written all of these in the same year, but he might have written two or three of them in 1593.

Answer 5

William Shakespeare published two plays in the year 1599, and they became two of his most popular. In that year, he wrote Henry V and Julius Caesar.

Answer 6

Pericles was written from 1608 to 1609.

First performed in 1609. Cymbeline was written from 1609 to 1610.

However, it was first performed in 1623.

Answer 7

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