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William Shakespeare, the famous English playwright, took inspiration for his plays from classical texts and historical events. His most iconic plays, like Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and Anthony and Cleopatra, were based in the works of authors like Plutarch, Arthur Brooke, Giovanni Boccaccio and Raphael Holinshed.
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What was the main source of Shakespeare's stories?
Shakespeare used a number of sources for various plots. He relied mostly on Holinshed's Chronicles for the Histories.
How many histories did Shakespeare write?
Ten of Shakespeare's plays are categorized as histories.
What 3 genres did William shakespeare use?
The plays Shakespeare wrote with are traditionally divided into Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. His favorite genre of poetry was the sonnet.
When was Open Source Shakespeare created?
Open Source Shakespeare was created in 2003.
What Genres did Shakespeare write with?
The plays Shakespeare wrote with are traditionally divided into Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. His favourite genre of poetry was the sonnet.
What was the main source of Shakespeare's stories?
Shakespeare used a number of sources for various plots. He relied mostly on Holinshed's Chronicles for the Histories.
How many histories did Shakespeare write?
Ten of Shakespeare's plays are categorized as histories.
What genres did Shakespeare use most?
Shakespeare wrote almost twice as many comedies as he did tragedies or histories.
Whose work did shakespeare get most of his information from?
Shakespeare's favourite source was Holinshed's histories of Britain, a huge and daunting work. This was Shakespeare's main source for all of his history plays, the plays set in ancient Britain, and for Macbeth, since Holinshed also covers Scottish history. Another favourite source was Plutarch's Lives of the Greeks and Romans, which Shakespeare used as a source for his Roman plays.
Is there any other histories besides call and text history?
Shakespeare's Histories.
What 3 genres did William shakespeare use?
The plays Shakespeare wrote with are traditionally divided into Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. His favorite genre of poetry was the sonnet.
What are the genres that William Shakespeare wrote?
Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies, histories, and tragicomedies.
Which plays did Shakespeare write the most?
If we divide Shakespeare's plays into comedies, histories and tragedies, the comedies outnumber the others almost two to one. There are ten histories and ten tragedies and eighteen comedies.
What Shakespeare plays were not comedies?
All of the ten histories and the ten tragedies.
What are three kind of plays that Shakespeare made?
Comedies, tragedies and histories.
Are all Shakespeare's plays tragic?
No, he wrote comedies and histories as well.
What Genres did Shakespeare write with?
The plays Shakespeare wrote with are traditionally divided into Histories, Comedies and Tragedies. His favourite genre of poetry was the sonnet.
