What was the name of Shakespeare's acting group?

Answer 1

We are not exactly sure which acting company Shakespeare started his career with: Queen Elizabeth's Men, Lord Strange's Men, Suffolk's Men, Pembroke's Men or Derby's Men have all been mentioned as possible acting companies Shakespeare worked for before 1594. He may have worked for all of them for all we know. But what we do know is that in 1594 Shakespeare was made a partner in a new company made up mostly of actors from Lord Strange's men, and it is this company which Shakespeare worked with for the next twenty years or so, although the personnel and even the name of the company changed from time to time. It is known usually as the Lord Chamberlain's Men or the King's Men, but it was throughout the same company. So it is impossible to say which acting group was Shakespeare's second, but it is certain that the Chamberlain's/King's Men was his last.

Answer 2

Prior to 1594, Shakespeare may have worked with one or more theater companies which may have included Pembroke's Men, Strange's Men, Derby's Men, Queen Elizabeth's Men and/or others as an actor and/or playwright. In 1594, Shakespeare, Burbage, and others formed The Lord Chamberlain's Men. In 1603, the King James I became the company's patron and the company became known as The King's Men. The company lasted after Shakespeare's death, until the Puritans outlawed the theaters in 1642, forty-eight years after its founding.

Answer 3

Shakespeare worked with the same company for most of his life, from 1594 to his retirement in 1613. They were called the Lord Chamberlain's Men and later The King's Men.

Answer 4

Shakespeare was a founding memeber of the company which held the names Lord Hunsdon's Men, Lord Chamberlain's Men, and King's Men.