14 Facts About Shakespeare's plays

Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare.

The exact number of Shakespeare's plays—as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise—is a matter of scholarly debate.

Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as being among the greatest in the English language and are continually performed around the world.

The Shakespeare's plays have been translated into every major living language.

Many of his Shakespeare's plays appeared in print as a series of quartos, but approximately half of them remained unpublished until 1623, when the posthumous First Folio was published.

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These Shakespeare's plays, generally celebrating piety, use personified moral attributes to urge or instruct the protagonist to choose the virtuous life over Evil.

At the universities, Shakespeare's plays were staged in a more academic form as Roman closet dramas.

These Shakespeare's plays, usually performed in Latin, adhered to classical ideas of unity and decorum, but they were more static, valuing lengthy speeches over physical action.

Shakespeare's plays takes from Aristotle and Horace the notion of decorum; with few exceptions, he focuses on high-born characters and national affairs as the subject of tragedy.

Shakespeare's plays's style changed not only in accordance with his own tastes and developing mastery, but in accord with the tastes of the audiences for whom he wrote.

Shakespeare's plays argues that when a person on the stage speaks to himself or herself, they are characters in a fiction speaking in character; this is an occasion of self-address.

Shakespeare's plays's dependence on earlier sources was a natural consequence of the speed at which playwrights of his era wrote; in addition, plays based on already popular stories appear to have been seen as more likely to draw large crowds.

Unlike his contemporary Ben Jonson, Shakespeare did not have direct involvement in publishing his Shakespeare's plays and produced no overall authoritative version of his Shakespeare's plays before he died.

Shakespeare's plays continued to be staged after his death until the Interregnum, when all public stage performances were banned by the Puritan rulers.