It is misleading to suggest that Shakespeare wrote stories. With very few exceptions, Shakespeare made plays out of other people's stories. He also tweaked their stories and made them better. But he did not write or even make up stories.
Romeo and Juliet
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The audience
the first folio
in 1623
england.
William Shakespeare
1623
louis Marder has written: 'His exits and entrances; the story of shakespeares reputation'
the global theater
For the first thirty-nine years of it.
Venus and Adonis, which was published in 1593.