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Play Productions:

• Henry VI, part 1, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa 1589-1592.
• Henry VI, part 2, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa 1590-1592.
• Henry VI, part 3, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa 1590-1592.
• Richard III, London, unknown theater (perhaps by a branch of the Queen's Men), circa 1591-1592.
• The Comedy of Errors, London, unknown theater (probably by Lord Strange's Men), circa 1592-1594; London, Gray's Inn, 28 December 1594.
• Titus Andronicus, London, Rose or Newington Butts theater, 24 January 1594.
• The Taming of the Shrew, London, Newington Butts theater, 11 June 1594.
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona, London, Newington Butts theater or the Theatre, 1594.
• Love's Labor's Lost, perhaps at the country house of a great lord, such as the Earl of Southampton, circa 1594-1595; London, at Court, Christmas 1597.
• Sir Thomas More, probably by Anthony Munday, revised by Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, Shakespeare, and possibly Thomas Heywood, evidently never produced, circa 1594-1595.
• King John, London, the Theatre, circa 1594-1596.
• Richard II, London, the Theatre, circa 1595.
• Romeo and Juliet, London, the Theatre, circa 1595-1596.
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, London, the Theatre, circa 1595-1596.
• The Merchant of Venice, London, the Theatre, circa 1596-1597.
• Henry IV, part 1, London, the Theatre, circa 1596-1597.
• Henry IV, part 2, London, the Theatre, circa 1597.
• The Merry Wives of Windsor, Windsor, Windsor Castle, 23 April 1597.
• Much Ado About Nothing, London, the Theatre, circa 1598-1599.
• Henry V, London, Globe theater(?), between March and September 1599(?).
• Julius Caesar, London, Globe theater, 21 September 1599.
• As You Like It, London, Globe theater, circa 1599-1600.
• Hamlet, London, Globe theater, circa 1600-1601.
• Twelfth Night, London, at Court(?), no earlier th

English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

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William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then w

Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author, Theatre.

(1564-1616) English poet and playwright whose writings helped to shape not only our Theatre but our language. Shakespearian venues, scenes, themes, Icons and formal quotations – not to mention innumerable tags and scraps and catchphrases from the plays – have penetrated deeply into the matrix of Western literary and popular culture. In many of our acts of communication and storytelling Shakespeare underlies us, and we quote him often without knowing we do so. Many of his characters, too, are Underliers [for this term and for Taproot Texts and Twice-Told see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. A fundamental intertextuality may be assumed to saturate Fantastika as a whole; copious evocations of this root circumstance may be found in Sarah Annes Brown's Shakespeare and Science Fiction (2021).

The universal influence of Shakespeare did not come about immediately. Although he remained well known throughout the seventeenth and into the eighteenth century, it was not until nearly 1800 that his works became unassailable linchpins of literary tradition. This apotheosizing of his work and life coincided roughly with the beginnings of Fantasy as a self-conscious genre. Fantasy has therefore been permeated by Shakespeare from its beginnings, both in English-speaking countries and on the European continent, and the influence has necessarily though less conspicuously seeped through into sf. As for what Shakespeare actually wrote and performed, recent scholarship has contributed to a proper and necessary contextualizing of the works, a growing treatment of his plays as being inextricably bound to the business and intimate theatrical conditions of the time; this grounding of his genius humanized our sense of the man, and exposed all the more clearly how daunting that genius was. Such textual analysis, and a proliferation of editions of his works, make Shakespeare's bibliography difficult