William Shakespeare (christened 26 April 1564 - died 23 April 1616) was an English leethwriter and playwright wide thought as the best writer of the English tung, and as the world's foremost playwright. He was born in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote many nameknown plays and is thought by many to be the best writer ever to have lived. In his lifetime, his writings were played at the Globe Theatre (Anglish: World Playhall), which he owned.
It is a stuff of moot that some plays under his name might have been written by others.
Crafts
His best known writing is Hamlet's Aside, from the play Hamlet. Other well gained plays by Shakespeare are Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth.
Shakespeare wrote 38 plays of mirthplay, eretide and sorrowplay.
Mirthplays
- All's Well That Ends Well
- As You Like It
- The Mirthplay of Mistakes
- Love's Work Lost
- Mete for Mete
- The Chapman of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado about Nothing
- Pericles, Atheling of Tyre
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Storm
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Kinsmen of Verona
- The Two Drightly Kinsmen
- The Winter's Tale
Eretides
- King John
- Richard the Other
- Henry IV, Deal 1
- Henry IV, Deal 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Deal 1
- Henry VI, Deal 2
- Henry VI, Deal 3
- Richard III
- Henry VIII
Sorrowplays
- Romeo and Juliet
- Coriolanus
- Titus Andronicus
- Timon of Athens
- Julius Caesar
- Macbeth
- Hamlet
- Troilus and Cressida
- King Lear
- Othello
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Cymbeline
Shakespeare also wrote sundry lays:
- 154 Sonnets
- Venus and Adonis
- The Reave of Lucrece
- The Lusty Pilgrim
- The Phoenix and the Shieldpaddock
- A Lover's Gripe
Plays believed to be written by Shakespeare but lost to time inhold:
- Love's Work Won
- Cardenio
Crafts called out against writership held in the Shakespeare "Apocrypha":
- Arden of Feversham
- The Birth of Merlin
- Locrine
- The London Unsparing
- The Cleanen
- The Other Maiden's Sorrowplay
- Herr John Oldcastle
- Thomas Lord Cromwell
- A Yorkshire Sorrowplay
- Edward III
- Herr Thomas More