Реферат: William Shakespeare Essay Research Paper William ShakespeareBorn

arts more than the queen. The name was changed from Lord Chamberlain’s Men to

the King’s Men.

1608-Added to the Globe Theater by buying the Black Friars Theater and giving

performances there also. W.S. owned 1/7th

1613-Fire at the Globe during a performance of Henry 8th; rebuilt within a year.

Left comedies and histories to write tragedies soon after the Globe reopened.

Sonnets-published in 1610 but circulated earlier.

First Tragedy: The Tragedy of Hamlet

Late plays: Cymbeleneand and Winter’s Tale became bitter, ironic, and sad (much

as his mood was changing toward the latter parts of his life.)

The Tempest: last play written as a posible farewell to the theater

He wrote 37 plays throughout his life.

1612-retired as a country gentlemen to New Place in Stratford

1616-wrote his will(by himself)

1616-April 23,1616 – died on the day and the month he was born

1623 – first folio was done by two of the men who admired him from his company

at the Globe.